Packers play by play tonight free#

Packers play by play tonight free#

It didn’t hurt that the Lions crushed free agency and the draft, or that we have one of the most creative offensive coordinators in the game today in Ben Johnson. That end-of-season run has made the Lions the sexy pick to dethrone the Packers atop the NFC North this season and return to the playoffs for the first time since 2016. I fully appreciate how pathetic that sounds, but when you’re a Lions fan, you take your victories wherever you can get them. Finally, we could take pride in our Lions fandom. Our defense, an Achilles’ heel all season, hounded Rodgers all game, with the highlight being the interception on the Packers’ final drive that sealed the game.īeating the Packers in Green Bay and humiliating Rodgers was our Super Bowl. Without hope and belief, what’s the point of being a fan? A win would send home the team that every Lions fan learns to hate from an early age. Earlier in the day, we’d been knocked out of the playoff race, but Green Bay was still alive. We’d won seven of our last nine games and headed to Lambeau to take on the Packers yet again. Going into the final game of the 2022 NFL season, the Lions were on a roll. That this crushing defeat came at the hands of the Eagles - my brother’s favorite team - only enhanced the misery.īut fast-forward 27 years. The Lions gave up 44 straight points, including a Hail Mary pass at the end of the first half, to end in a 58-37 loss. Our all-pro offensive tackle Lomas Brown guaranteed a victory.Īfter we tied the score 7-7, the nightmare began.

They had finished the season on a seven-game win streak and would have hosted a playoff game had wide-open Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Yancey Thigpen not dropped a pass in the end zone to hand the Packers the NFC Central title. The Lions were playing the Eagles in the NFC wild card game. I can pinpoint the last time I had real hope as a Lions fan: the morning of Dec. We’ve lived through both the Matt Millen era and the Matt Patricia era, which from a historical perspective, are probably most akin to the Dark Ages or a stroll in the Sahara without water. Rams (no Lions fan is upset at Stafford, though, who was a great player for us who deserved to win a title). Matthew Stafford, our Hall of Fame-worthy quarterback, finally left the Lions and immediately won the Super Bowl with his new team, the L.A.

We’ve had two of the greatest position players in the history of the game, Sanders and Johnson.

In 2008, the Lions were the first NFL team to go 0-16 (other teams had winless seasons but did not play 16 games). There was the Calvin Johnson “ complete the process” game the “ batted ball” game against the Seahawks the Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary the “ runoff game” versus the Falcons that time the Ravens’ Justin Tucker hit the longest field goal in NFL history to beat us in 2021 and of course the “ the refs picked up the flag” playoff game against the Cowboys in 2015 that sent me into a deep emotional abyss (and still does when I recall it). There are many “Same Old Lions” moments but Lions fans can recite most of them from memory.