Allen Park — Picture this: It’s a Sunday in Dec. 2020. The Detroit Lions are getting ready to play the Chicago Bears, a divisional rival in flux with a not-so-good quarterback who still somehow manages to play well enough to be listed as the Lions’ owner on Wikipedia after most meetings between the two teams.
But in the first game without former head coach Matt Patricia, who was fired a week prior, the unthinkable happens: The Bears throw from near their own end zone with a three-point lead, Romeo Okwara strips Mitch Trubisky, and the Lions complete a 10-point comeback in the final 2:18, leaving Chicago with a win, as Adrian Peterson rushes in a 5-yard touchdown.