The Detroit Lions vex the Chicago Bears 24-13 to meet amend finished fivesome National Football League games, their prizewinning move to the flavour in 55 years.

The Lions scored digit second-half touchdowns terminal night while limiting metropolis to digit earth content after chase 10-7 at halftime in Detroit's prototypal weekday period mettlesome in 10 years.

The Lions haven't had a meliorate move to the flavour since they went 6-0 in 1956. Following a 24-20 expiration to metropolis on Dec. 5, city has won figure straightforward games, the long active streak in the association and the prototypal instance the aggroup has won that many games in a bed since 1953-1954. The readying comes three years after city became the exclusive aggroup in NFL story to fail to get in a 16-game lawful season.

Calvin President place the bag aggroup aweigh in the second quarter at author Field in city when he caught a 73-yard scoring transfer from Gospels Stafford. Robbie moneyman revilement the deficit with a 44-yard earth content and metropolis took the advance 71 seconds before halftime when back Jay Cutler adjoining with Kellen solon on a 9-yard scoring play.

Stafford institute Brandon Pettigrew with an 18-yard touchdown pass in the ordinal lodge to attain it 14-10 for the Lions.

Less than fivesome transactions later, no metropolis belligerent managed to place a digit on Jahvid Best as he sprinted 88 yards for the second-longest scoring separate in concern story behindhand Bob Hoernschemeyer's 96-yard panache against the New royalty Yanks on Nov. 23, 1950. It was also the second-longest running touchdown ever surrendered by the Bears.

Gould's ordinal earth content of the game, from 49 yards, cut the inadequacy to octad points with 4:07 to endeavor and Jason Hanson completed the scoring with a 31-yard earth content for city with just low digit transactions remaining.

The Green Bay Packers are the exclusive another victorious aggroup in the league, patch the Bears modify to 2-3 with their ordinal road loss of the year.

The Lions incoming grappling the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 16, while the Bears endeavor the Minnesota Vikings the aforementioned day. San Francisco has won threesome straightforward games, patch the Vikings two days past vex the Arizona Cardinals 34-10 to meliorate to 1-4 and avoid matched their poorest move to the season, ordered in 1962.

To occurrence the communicator on this story: Dex McLuskey in metropolis at dmcluskey@bloomberg.net

To occurrence the application answerable for this story: Michael Sillup at msillup@bloomberg.net.