Detroit Lions Look For Redemption in Return to Lambeau Field

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Published: October 15, 2009

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... Lambeau Field.

Lambeau Field is not a friend to the Lions. They haven't won a game there since 1991, chalking up 17 straight losses while surrounded by cheeseheads.

This year, though, there's something extra going on.

The Detroit Lions' final game of 2008 was an away game against the Packers. Do you remember what happened to the Detroit Lions in their final game of 2008?

They do.

A little more than half the Lions' roster has been turned over from last year, so this doesn't apply to them. But as for the holdovers?

Don't think for a moment they've forgotten the feeling they had in the freezing cold air at Lambeau Field as the final seconds ticked away on their last chance to save face.

It was a cold day for the Lions in more ways than one. That was the day 0-16 went from a rumor, a murmur in the media, an abstract number, to an inescapable reality.

Kevin Smith remembers that. Cliff Avril and Ernie Sims, too. Dominic Raiola definite...

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