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Game Notes: Lions vs. Packers

Posted Nov 26, 2009

  • Today’s game was Detroit’s 70th Thanksgiving Day game, and it was the 19th Thanksgiving Day game between the Lions and the Packers.
  • Today’s game also marked the 75th anniversary of the first NFL game broadcast to a national audience. The Lions first Thanksgiving Day game in 1934, through the efforts of owner G.A. Richards, was aired live across the on NBC Radio.
  • Today’s game was the 18th game K Jason Hanson has played on Thanksgiving Day, more times than any player in NFL history. Hanson has appeared in his 282nd career game, a Lions’ franchise record.
  • Lions T Jeff Backus made his 139th consecutive start in today’s game. He has the longest streak of consecutive starts among offensive linemen in the NFL and he is fifth among active players.
  • LB Larry Foote started for the 91st straight time. He is fourth among linebacker in consecutive starts.
  • On the game’s opening drive, Lions DE Turk McBride forced a fumble (Packers KR Jordy Nelson) that was recovered by LB Jordon Dizon. It was McBride’s first career forced fumble. The fumble recovery was at the Packers 20-yard line and helped set up the Lions first score of the game.
  • The takeaway on the kickoff team game the Lions a league-high seventh takeaway since the beginning of the 2008 season. The team’s special teams turnover margin ( 6) is also a league-best since the start of the 2008 season.
  • After the Lions recovered a fumble on the opening kickoff, rookie QB Matthew Stafford led the Lions on a 5-play, 20-yard drive that was capped off with a 1-yard touchdown pass to WR Calvin Johnson.
  • The touchdown pass was Stafford’s 12th touchdown pass of the year, which ties QB Joey Harrington (2002) for the most touchdown passes by a rookie in a single season.
  • Stafford has run for or thrown a touchdown pass in 9 games he has started this year. He has also thrown a touchdown pass in each of the last four games.
  • The 1-yard touchdown caught by Johnson 15th touchdown grab since the beginning of the 2008 season. He is now tied for third among all NFL players for the most touchdown receptions over the past two seasons.
  • Rookie S Louis Delmas recorded a safety when he tackled Packers RB Ryan Grant in the endzone with 9:18 to play in the fourth quarter.
  • Delmas’ safety was the Lions second safety of the season (RB Kevin Smith vs. StL 11/1). The last time the Lions registered two safeties in a season was 1983 when the team had three. The Lions have now recorded two safeties in season six times, including 1962 (4), 1983 (3), 1960 (3), 1935 (2) and 1975 (2).
  • The last Lions rookie to record a safety was LB George Jamison vs. Green Bay October 25, 1987.
  • He is one of only two rookies (Houston LB Brian Cushing) to register a safety this season, and he is the only rookie defensive back to do so.
  • Delmas has now recorded a fumble return for a touchdown (65 yards at New Orleans 9/13), an interception (29 yards at Seattle 11/8) and a safety. He is the only player in the NFL this season with a fumble return for a TD, an interception and a safety.
  • He ended the game with six tackles (four solo).
  • LB Julian Peterson recorded a sack-fumble in the third quarter (recovered by Lions DE Jason Hunter). Peterson now has 4.5 sacks on the season and four forced fumbles. His four forced fumbles are tied for the third highest tally in the league this year.

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