Green Bay, Wis. — They had it and lost it, had it and lost it. And then finally, mercifully, they had it for real, the most-improbable prize in a season of gloom.
The Lions did something they almost never do, and did it in a way that pushed the bounds of believable drama. They beat the Packers on the road for the first time in 24 years, and did it despite botching routine plays in the closing minutes, despite staring down one of the most-feared quarterbacks in the league.
Nobody will forget this one for a while, and not just because it snapped one of the franchise's ugliest historic markers.