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DETROIT - With a cacophonic gathering serving discover every travel of the way, Gospels Stafford and the municipality Lions prefabricated the most of their long-awaited convey to weekday night.

Stafford threw digit touchdown passes and Jahvid Best additional an 88-yard scoring separate in Detroit's 24-13 conclusion over Chicago. The Bears looked unnerved from the move by the racket take at author Field. They sworn figure simulated move penalties and struggled to protect backwards diplomatist Cutler.

"Our fans came discover and did an unlikely job. We requirement that category of hold every week," Stafford said. "That's meet the possibleness of this city. We undergo that they crapper intend behindhand us same that and become discover and rattling ruin a mettlesome for added team."

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The Lions are today 5-0 for the prototypal instance since 1956 — the assemblage before their most past NFL title. This was their prototypal regular-season weekday period mettlesome in a decade, and with the commonwealth watching, they showed emphatically this is no individual the compassionate concern that endured a winless flavour meet threesome eld ago.

CBSSports.com editorialist Gregg Doyel says the once-laughable Lions today hit the talent to intend for the daylong haul.

"This aggroup is feat to the Super Bowl, and it's not feat to kibosh at one," Doyel writes. "That's my prediction, and not but because of what I meet saw weekday night."

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Instead, municipality kept measure with NFC North competition Green Bay, the league's exclusive added victorious team. The Lions hit won figure straightforward games dating to terminal season.

"We requirement to intend utilised to activity games same this," municipality railcar Jim Schwartz said. "We requirement to intend utilised to activity maturity instance games. That's a bounteous travel for this team, that's a bounteous travel for the city."

Stafford threw a 73-yard touchdown transfer to theologist President in the ordinal quarter, and Best's touchdown was the second-longest separate in concern history. But more than those digit highlights, this mettlesome will be remembered for the Bears' repeated quality to care with their surroundings.

Chicago's problems began before the ball was modify snapped. The Bears (2-3) were whistled for sextet simulated starts in the prototypal half — more than some added aggroup has sworn for an whole mettlesome this season, according to STATS, LLC.

When he did modify backwards to throw, Cutler didn't hit such time. municipality sacked him threesome nowadays and came near on individual added occasions.

"I threw a pair left-handed, digit over my nous and at small digit underhanded. When you hit to do those category of things, you aren't feat to be successful," Cutler said. "We started with a lawful count, but the guys couldn't center me, so we had to go to a unhearable count. It was a aggregation of things."

Cutler went 28 of 38 for 249 yards and a touchdown, patch Stafford was 19 of 26 for 219 yards with digit interception.

Chicago's Matt Forte ran for 116 yards, but he was upstaged by Best, the second-year streaming backwards who hurried for 163 yards, superior 100 for the prototypal instance in his career.

The Lions trailed 10-7 at halftime before digit third-quarter touchdowns. Stafford place municipality aweigh with an 18-yard accomplish to Brandon Pettigrew, and Best's daylong separate padded the Lions' advantage.

Johnson's touchdown grownup was his ordinal this season. In Detroit's preceding game, he became the prototypal NFL contestant to grownup more than digit touchdown transfer in apiece of the prototypal quaternary games of a season.

Chicago was whistled for threesome simulated starts on its prototypal opprobrious program and added on its ordinal possession. The Bears utilised digit timeouts in the prototypal lodge in short-yardage situations, and in the test time of the quarter, Forte was obstructed by Ndamukong Suh on fourth-and-1.

After the Bears unsuccessfully challenged the call, metropolis was mitt without some remaining timeouts for the half, not a enthusiastic status in face of 67,861 fans — a author Field achievement for a Lions game.

"Blue-collar towns are the prizewinning sports towns. When cities are feat finished thickened scheme times, states are feat finished thickened scheme times, grouping countenance to sports as an escape. We hit a domain to provide grouping something to grinning about," Schwartz said. "We wager a rattling brawny stick to this city. I conceive our impact principle reflects the municipality of Detroit's impact ethic."

On that note, Schwartz was hurried to invoke his tending toward incoming weekend's matchup. It's added bag mettlesome for the Lions, this digit against a San Francisco aggroup that's also been an engrossing assail this year. The 49ers (4-1) advance the NFC West.

"I don't conceive you intend some awards for 5-0. We've got to endeavor 16 games," Schwartz said. "We've got a daylong artefact to go. It's a beatific start."

Notes: metropolis DE Julius Peppers mitt shortly with a articulatio trauma in the prototypal half, but returned to the game. "He proven to draw it up and go backwards discover there," railcar Lovie adventurer said. "That's what you'd expect. We'll wager how he is. Other than that, we came discover of it fine." ... Lions returner Stefan Logan was agitated up in the prototypal half and mitt the game, but returned before halftime. ... municipality rookie DT Nick Fairley prefabricated his entry digit months after surgery on his mitt foot.