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Bears vs. Lions score, live updates: Detroit hosts Thanksgiving Day matchup as big favorite over Chicago

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Bears vs. Lions score, live updates: Detroit hosts Thanksgiving Day matchup as big favorite over Chicago

For much of the 21st century, the early Thanksgiving Day NFL game has been about which team is going to Detroit to beat the Lions. In their traditional 12:30 p.m. ET kickoff slot, the Lions are 5-18 since 2000, and have lost their last seven games on Thanksgiving Day. This year feels a bit different, though, with 10-1 Detroit bringing the league’s best team — according to Yahoo Sports’ Frank Schwab’s NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 13 — to the table, hoping for a feast against the 4-7 Chicago Bears.

The Lions were last seen on Sunday making short work of the Colts in a 24-6 win — Detroit’s sixth victory by double-digits this season. Chicago, meanwhile, lost a 30-27 overtime thriller to the Vikings, a game in which Caleb Williams threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns in arguably his best outing of the season. The last time these two franchises met on Thanksgiving Day was back in 2021, a 16-14 Bears win. The Lions went on to finish 3-13-1 that season in Jared Goff’s first year in Detroit.

  • Time: 12:30 p.m. ET

  • Location: Ford Field | Detroit

  • TV channel: CBS

  • Streaming: Paramount+, Fubo

Live7 updates

  • Lions settle for a field goal on the opening drive

    After a few incomplete passes in the red zone, Detroit takes a 3-0 led over the Bears off the opening drive.

  • Penei Sewell’s trick play falls a little short

    A Lions play led to offensive tackle Penei Sewell getting the ball, poised for a potential touchdown throw. Unfortunately, Sewell was under pressure before he could get the throw off, and lost a few yards. What could have been.

  • Lions are moving the ball down the field early, with a great catch from Amon-Ra St. Brown

  • Bears-Lions starts off with a smooth rendition of the anthem on saxophone

  • John Madden’s Thanksgiving turducken lives on

    It’s been more than 25 years since John Madden infamously tried a turducken — a duck, stuffed into a chicken, stuffed into a turkey — live on air in honor of Thanksgiving.

    Madden died in 2021, but the tradition lives on: The three NFL Thanksgiving games will all use a special coin for the coin flip, featuring Madden’s face on one side and a six-legged turducken on the other.

    Madden is also being honored with a patch on the team’s uniforms.

  • Inactives for Bears and Lions

  • Sonic and Knuckles meet “Sonic” and “Knuckles”

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