Quote:Hi, Jaguars fans!     Green Bay Packers visit Ford Field for the Detroit Lions first-ever appearance on Thursday Night Football.  Both the Packers and Lions still have the accustomed 7-day period between games, since both Detroit defeated the Philadelphia Eagles handily 45-17, while the Chicago Bears upset the Packers in a rainy Lambeau Field.  Packers are 3-1 in THNF, while Detroit is 0-0 and are playing their first inaugural Thursday Night Football game, other than their traditional Thanksgiving Day Game. 

 

Packers lead the all-time series 97-68-7. NO injuries, and GO LIONS!!!!! :yes:    B)  :thumbsup:  ^_^

 

http://www.nfl.com/tnf

 

 Technically,  the Lions played a couple of Thursday Night games around the turn of the century.    These games were played before Thursday Night Football became a weekly or near weekly event. 

 

 In the game in late November, 2000,  Cris Carter caught his 1000th career reception.   I remember it like it was yesterday.   In the same game, CB Bryant Westbrook had his career derailed with a torn Achilles tenden on the dreaded Metrodome turf.

 

  A few weeks earlier,  former Jag RB James Stewart had a 3 TD game in Tampa for the Lions in an Oct. 2000 Thursday Night game.

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