ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- They exhaled and celebrated. Inside the Detroit Lions' locker room that day, they understood the accomplishment. Green Bay had tormented the Lions. Matthew Stafford had never beaten them. Packers offensive lineman Josh Sitton called them “scumbags” and “dirtbags” on defense. And the Lions, they hadn’t won on Thanksgiving in a decade.
Down goes the streak. What they didn’t know at the time is long live another one -- possibly a worse one.
Reggie Bush ran for 117 yards in a 40-10 victory that day, his third 100-yard game of 2013.