More than three decades have passed since an NFL regular-season game carried the stakes of Sunday night's matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions at Ford Field (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC).
The winner will clinch the NFC North and the No. 1 seed in the conference playoffs, while the loser will be the best team in league history (by winning percentage) to have failed to win a division. Not since 1993, when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the New York Giants in overtime, has the No. 1 seed been determined by a single game in the final week of a season.