2-13 Lions actually sold out their season finale

Despite losing all of the last five games and totally having won only two games for the whole season, the Detroit Lions actually sold out the tickets for their season finale! But I guess most of the audience will be wearing Chicago Bears jerseys as fans for a team who sent the Minnesota Vikings their third loss of the season.


The Lions sold out three of its first seven games at Ford Field this season, but seemingly all sellouts were not good signs. The Lions are 0-3 in the sellouts—losing to the Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. Or perhaps, the Lions were able to sell out the game simply because the game was against the team they were anyhow unable to win over.

The Lions will have Daunte Culpepper to start at quarterback against the Bears. Previous starter Drew Stanton has lost the advantage of keeping the starting job after led the team to a 6-20 loss to the San Francisco 49ers last Sunday.

49ers Coach Singletary will face former team Bears in easy manner

The San Francisco 49ers Coach Mike Singletary will face his former team, the Chicago Bears, just as 49ers Coach, not a Hall of Fame linebacker who played in 1985 Super Bowl wearing Bears jersey. It is not the first time he and his 49ers play against the Bears, so it is not necessary to feel tough or nostalgic.


“The Bears will always be a team that I love,” Singletary said. “The Bears, so many friends, family, memories, that goes without saying. … I’m glad this is not the first time I am playing the Bears because that would be tough. Now that I have played them a couple times, it’s just a matter of going out there and competing against a good football team and trying to do the best I can.”

Believing that the 49ers will take an impressive climb to get back on track, to lead the NFC West again as they did in the first games, Singletary will just try his best to achieve a win over the Bears to be playoff team.

Bears DT Dvoracek was put on IR with knee injury

Unfortunate Dusty Dvoracek will miss another season with injury. He underwent arthroscopic surgery on Friday. He hurt the right knee on Saturday’s preseason game against the New York Giants, and initial tests were inconclusive.


The fourth-round draft pick in 2006 tore his left anterior cruciate ligament in the 2007 season opener and went on IR as a San Diego Chargers rookie. Last year he also missed games with a torn biceps.

“Right off the top of my head, I haven’t seen a lot of players go through that,” Bears coach Lovie Smith said. “Guys deal with injuries always. As much as anything, with Dusty, though, it’s one thing to have injuries and they continue to linger. These are different things.”

Dvoracek will be able to play in 10 months. That means the Bears need to find a new competitor for the starting nose tackle position with second-year player Marcus Harrison. It is likely to be third-year player Matt Toeaina, who was previously backup for Dvoracek and Harrison.