Fans blend parade and game in downtown Detroit
It was an interesting, if hardly unprecedented, set of logistics in the heart of Detroit today, all because of two traditions unique to Detroit:
The Lions and the Thanksgiving Parade made for a whirl of pedestrian traffic in the blocks alongside and surrounding Woodward Avenue and Ford Field.
The Lions play the Eagles at 12:30 p.m. in the latest rendition of a NFL habit that's nearly 80 years old.
Fans crossing Woodward to arrive at Ford Field tended to enjoy the delays as bands and floats passed, giving way at designated interludes, to mass scurrying across Woodward and to Ford Field for a game the Lions and their followers hoped would become Detroit's third consecutive victory.