It's good to be a Detroit football fans these days...well kinda. The hometown Lions did defeat their divisional rivals the Green Bay Packers but it it was an absolute snore fest with the offenses looking more pitiful than Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp's box office figures for 'The Tourist'.
Heavy snows collapsed the roof on Vikes' Metrodome home early Sunday morning in dramatic fashion.
After exploring several options the Vikings and the league picked Detroit as an alternative site to host the rescheduled NY Giants match-up.
The biggest winners ended up being the people of Detroit who got into the game for free. Anyone with a ticket to the originally scheduled game in Minnesota were granted priority seating, and anyone else who lined up at the Ford Field box office were given free tickets on a first come, first served basis.
The Lions ended up distributing more than 30,000 free tickets to fans for the game. So many fans stood in sub-freezing temperatures for the free passes that the Lions closed down the box office after little more than an hour .- Source: USA Today
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