Good day classmates!
It was an exciting weekend of football though it ended in heartbreak as the Detroit Lions lost for the second week in a row to the Tennessee Titans. The game started off extremly slow with the Lions looking pitful on both sides of the ball. They had no answer for Jake Locker, the Titans quarterback. He had a career day throwing for 350+ yards and 2 touchdowns. Although the Lions had no answer for Locker, the Lions held Tennessee's star running back, Chris Johnson, to only 24 yards on 14 carries. This was an impressive hold after being trampled by St. Louis's and San Francisco's running backs in weeks 1 and 2. The Lions had a very slow start on offense in the first half, but exploded in the second half scoring 32 points, 14 of which came within the last 18 seconds of the game. While the Lions were driving with only minutes left and down by a touchdown, tight end Brandon Pettigrew was stripped of the ball and the Tennessee defense returned it for a touchdown. This had seemingly been the demise of the Lions for this game as quarterback Matthew Stafford was injured trying to chase down the defender returning the touchdown. Back up quarterback, Shaun Hill, who was a previous starting quarterback in the NFL, entered the game poised and ready to lead the Lions on there last attempt to with. Down by 14 with only a minute and 30 seconds left, Hill drove the filed and threw a strike to Calvin Johnson for a touchdown with only 18 seconds remaing. Doown by only one touchdown now the Lions had to recover an onside kick in order to have any shot at winning this game. Jason Hanson sent the kick away and it took a high bounce. Lions Ball! Safety Amari Speive recovers the onside kick and gives the Lions one last hope. With only 4 seconds left Hill takes the snap. After scrambling around for a few seconds he hails the ball 50 yards down the field to the endzone where a Tennessee defender bats the ball down. But Wait! Wide receiver Titus Young dives under the ball, catching it and scores the game tieing touchdown! The Lions had came back and sent the game to overtime. The Lions came up short though, failing to convert a 4th and short play giving the Titans the victory for the game. It was a valiant effort by our Lions, but hopefully we can come out next week with a win over the talented Minnesota Vikings.