CHARGERS LIONS PLAY BY PLAY FULL
They finally appear to be on the verge of breaking out of this season.Ĭoming off a 9-8 season, the Lions are the favorites to win the NFC North, and should have multiple primetime games when the full schedule is announced Thursday.Īlong with the Chiefs-Dolphins game, the New England Patriots will play the Indianapolis Colts in Germany on Nov. The Lions then hired Wood as team president, but have languished in a state of mediocrity for years. They have not played internationally since 2015, when they lost to the Chiefs, 45-10, at London’s Wembley Stadium in a game that changed the trajectory of the franchise.Įmbarrassed by her team’s poor showing, then-Lions owner Martha Ford fired general manager Martin Mayhew and president Tom Lewand after returning to the United States. The Lions have not played at Arrowhead since Dec. The Chiefs are 14-3 in home games the past two seasons, and Patrick Mahomes has won 16 straight regular season games against NFC opponents. Rather than face the Chiefs overseas, the Lions will visit Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, one of the toughest venues for road teams in the NFL. If playing internationally this year buys us a year off that, that’d be OK.” "Every 10 years you have to give up one of your nine, so I’m hoping that doesn’t happen in (2024). “Selfishly, I’d rather not give up a home game while we’re kind of on this upward trajectory," Wood told the Free Press in February. The Lions have never given up a home game to play overseas. NFC teams have an extra home game on the league’s current 17-game schedule in even-numbered years.
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Every NFL team must give up one home date every 10 years, in a season its scheduled to host nine games, to play internationally.
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