Keeping the Lions on Thanksgiving might not be best for anyone's appetite.
The Shane Greene Jersey Bears and Lions entered the Turkey Day matchup with three wins combined, and they exited with a total turkey of a game. Chicago tookhome a 16-14win at the buzzer whenCairo Santos kicked the winning field goal from 28 yards out.
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Usually, games that come down to the wire are exciting, but the NFC North matchup was anything but: It was a sloppy snoozefest of a matchup, with fans reaching their breaking point long before they argued with their crazy uncles at the dinner table.
The Lions have now lost five straight Thanksgiving games and their 14 points scored is the lowest by the team on Thanksgiving since they scored 12 vs. Packers in 2009.NFL fans sitting through the affair were, understandably, just short of storming the NFL's headquarters in New York to get the league to stop the Lions from ruining another Thanksgiving:
free us from the shackles of the lions on thanksgiving
charles (redzone 11-0) mcdonald (@FourVerts)The NFL forcing us to watch the Bears and Lions on Max Fried Jersey Thanksgiving
NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes)the NFL forces us to watch the Lions on Thanksgiving EVERY SINGLE YEAR because of "tradition, tradition, tradition"then they make up bullshit new rules every year like "taunting"
Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball)If they didnt want you pa sing out early on Thanksgiving they wouldnt put the Bears / Lions game at noon.
McNeil (@Reflog_18) Blank JerseyIt was a low-light festival of epic proportions.
Here's are a few of thebad, weird and sloppy momentsfrom the Lions on Thursday that had Lions and Bears fans thankful that the game ended before dinnertime:
Coin flip debacleThe 2021 Thanksgiving day gamehad a combined 617 yards of total offense and just 26points, and it got off to something of an inauspicious start: After Detroit won the coin to s and deferred, the Bears also tried to defer the kick-off, which is, well, something you cannot do in the National Football League.
The Bears started the game with the ball, by the way.
Credit Fox for going back and giving us the coin to s, which the Bears tried to defer after the Lions deferred:
Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) Helmet doinkNothing like a good ol' helmet doink to get the blood pumping Josh Donaldson Jersey . A punt caromed off the head of Bobby Price, which would have been dead at the spot had it not been for a Bears penalty away from the play.
Because of a Bears holding penalty away from the helmet carom, this Canseco moment by Bobby Price is part of a 70-yard punt for the Lions. Winle s Detroit now trails anyway, 10-7.
Dinn Mann (@mooseoutfront) 12 men on the field on a PATWhat is there to be said?
Following the second Lions TD on the day, Detroit was flagged for too many men on the field on the extra point attempt. How does that even happen? The play was understandably and fairly roasted by Fox broadcaster Joe Buck.
"I gue s they're just not used to scoring touchdowns," Buck said, which earned a Tom Glavine Jersey genuine Troy Aikman laugh.
Joe Buck unapologetically roasts the Detroit Lions after they somehow managed to get penalized for having 12 men on the field on an extra point try.
The Big Lead (@TheBigLead) Three straight penalties in the fourthWith the Lions trying tolengthen their 14-13 lead in the fourth quarter, the Lions were slapped with a false start and back-to-back holding calls, endingup with a third-and-32. Coincidentally, that would be the second third-and-32 in the game for the Lions.
So, this is HC: Dan Campbell's 3rd-32 play call?And yet somehow they tied the not Austin Riley Jersey long ago?
Lawrence Owen (@Colts_Law) And back-to-back timeouts for a penaltyThe icing on the terrible Thanksgiving pie: The Lions called back-to-back timeouts in the final two minutes, which is something you cannot do, which earned the Lions a 5-yard penalty. It mattered: It gave the Bears a much more manageable third down in the red zone, which they converted. Chicago then randown the clock before kicking the game-winning field goal on the last play of the game.
Dan Campbell gets a 5 yard penalty for calling back to back timeouts, this is what they show on defense!?!?!?!?!
Ben (@benschueren)