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On Sunday, October 24th, 1971, the Chicago Bears faced the Detroit Lions at Tiger Stadium for his week 6 of the 1971 NFL season.
The Bears entered the game with a 3-2 record under head coach Jim Dooley.
Detroit was 4-1 and were coached by Joe Schmidt, who led the team to a 10-4 record in 1970 and their first postseason game since their 1957 championship.
This game has historical significance as it features the tragic death of Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes late in the fourth quarter.
This audio recording is from the Detroit Radio broadcast featuring announcers Van Patrick and Bob Reynolds.
So as we mentioned earlier, we expect to find ourselves in the middle of a real battle here today between these two ball clubs.
Remember as we mentioned, the Bears are 3-2 still very much in contention. The Lions 4-1, seeking their fifth straight win here today.
They have 6 in a row over the Chicago Bears over the past couple of seasons and they'd like to keep it going today.
Man has it all set up. We're all set to go and ready to bring you all the action once again here in Van Patrick.
Thank you Bob Reynolds and hello everybody. The defense are Cecil Turner along with Ron Smith and here's the boots.
High end over end kick coming down to about the 3-yard line. It's taken there by Turner back to the 15, the 20, 25 to the 30.
And he's dropped down on the 30-yard line. The tackle was made by Wayne Rasmussen.
So it'll be first down and 10 to go for the Chicago Bears and that was a 27-yard return.
The Bears have the ball, first and 10 on their own 30.
Cody's the center, Cabeele all the way in the guard. Wright and Jackson the tackles and Gordon and Wallace to the end.
Robert Douglas is the quarterback and he's a left-hander.
Farmer's foot out wide to the right. Gordon is deployed to the left.
They're in the I-formation now, the Chicago Bears.
Out checked the Lions defense. Grabowski's in there as a running back and the give instead is Suzanne Shai the fullback.
And he is to the 34-yard line and the tackle is made right there.
Making the tackle was Mike Winger coming up for the secondary along with Dick Eadie, number 77.
Lucci and Walker both the 16 and the ball on the 34.
It'll be second down and six yards to go now for the Chicago Bears.
Grabowski, Shai and Farmer in the backfield with Bobby Douglas.
Lions have Mitchell E.V. rushing hand up front. Newbork, Lucci and Walker backing up the line.
Bobby Williams is in there in the cornerback in place of Lynn Barney.
It's a close set with two flackers and Douglas throws one out of the right flat.
It's completed the Farmer but the tackle is made immediately by Bobby Williams.
He might have moved it to the 36-yard line. We'll wait until they bring it in and mark it down.
It'll swing fast out in the right flat and as I mentioned Bobby Douglas is a left-handed thrower.
Number 89, number 45 coming in here. That's it.
Gordon moving back in. He had gone out to the left side.
And the big number 89 is Wallace, the tight end who was also on the left side.
He's 6'3, 220.
Now Gordon is deployed to the right side.
It's then Farmer over on the left side in the dive formation with a third and four situation.
Douglas with the football and the pitch back there to his running back Shai who cuts in.
He's dropped at the 39-yard line. He's shy I believe of a first down.
Tackle was made by Wayne Walker of the Detroit Lions.
And also in on the tackle and giving up rather slowly there for Detroit is Jim Mitchell.
So that brings up a fourth down and one so the defense did the job.
Walker is hurt.
Wayne Walker has a shoulder injury as he goes off the sideline and can't stop the trainer if it's enough.
Bobby Joe Green, 5'11, 175 pounder is in there to do the punting.
Dropping back for the Detroit Lions.
Chuck Hughes is back there.
Looks like Gibson also back there and it is.
And here is the lead taken on the 27-yard line taken by Walton.
And Walton is dropped on the 27-yard line.
Dropped down on the 27th. He's a printer with a running on the tackle at the 34-yard pitch.
They had Larry Walton back there that time with Chuck Hughes.
Lynn Barney who usually works back there is out of the ballgame and probably will miss next week's game.
Earl McCullough came out and has gone right back on the sidelines again.
Paul Gibson has been moved on the taxi squad. Al Clark has been activated and so has Mel Farr.
All right, ready to go. First down and 10 from the 26-yard line of Detroit.
Greg Landry in the high formation with two receivers on the left side.
Bruckus calling those defensive signals. A bit back is Alfie Taylor.
Taylor gets a block. He's at the 25 and he finally knocks out of bounds on about the 27-yard line.
And Jeter is the man who knocked him out of bounds. And I'll check that defense now to bear it.
Willie Holman is playing left end. O'Gradovich is the right end.
George Seals and Staley are the tacklers.
And Brubacher are the linebackers. They've got Charlie Ford, Ron Smith, Jerry Moore, and Bob Jeter in that secondary for Chicago.
So one yard on the play and out wide to the right goes Walton.
To the left side is McCullough who's in there now.
And in the pro set, Steve Owens and Alfie Taylor with the setbacks for Detroit.
Greg Landry calling the signals. Look at Bruckus. He's moving around, stunning a little bit.
Owens with the football. 35-yard line. He's got very close to the first down.
He found the hole over the right side, Bob, with Clayton Gallagher clearing the way.
It really looks like he was trying to there, man.
After that, I've seen Steve move as you were mentioning Bruckus.
I took my eye off the play, the running play, and was watching Dick.
He keeps planning in a real go down. He keeps talking to him all the time.
And Flanagan says every time he plays Chicago Bears, there's no problem for me to get up.
He said I just can't anticipate meeting head on with Dick Bruckus.
He's a little unorthodox, but he said he's all the great football player that everybody says he is.
And indeed, he is just that.
All right, third down and about a half a yard to go for the Lions.
They have a tight formation with the exception of Walton who's set out about five yards to the right side.
Steve Owens, the second leading rusher in the National Football League.
Bruckus almost went across there.
The game is through Owens, and he didn't make it, but there's a flag on the play.
Bluebuckers, the man who made the tackle there.
Bruckus started across, and then he jumped back.
I don't know what the, I think it's going to be against the Bears to be offside Bob Early with the finger.
That's it. It may be even longer than that.
No, it's the five yarder.
They're offside, as you call it, against the Bears, which lose the ball to the 41 and gives the Lions that first down.
If they would not have had, they didn't make the yardage on the running play.
But the penalty gives it to the first and 10 of their own 41.
So in the opening moments of this one, no score, the Bears and the Lions.
Greg Landry, the quarterback, he's completed 53 out of 101 this year.
First to 10 from the Lions 41.
Look at that defense starting around there.
The Bears, they keep moving around.
Landry's back to throw.
He lets him throw.
He's completed at the 45 yard line.
He's at the 50 to 45, and he's out of bounds.
And Jerry Wilde, chasing out of bounds.
They've got another first down.
And Landry hits Alty Taylor out on the right flat, and that's the second first down.
Whoa, we've got some surprises on that scoreboard.
Riverdale is leading New York 13 to 7.
Atlanta is ahead of New Orleans 21 to nothing.
Denver leads Cleveland 14 to nothing.
Houston leading Pittsburgh 10 to 6, and the Jets leading Miami 7 to 3.
Let it all in.
15 yards made on that pass play.
First and 10 now, the ball is on the 44 yard line of Chicago.
Two setbacks, two flunkers.
Owens with the ball, punching over right guard, and Owens gets down to about the 40.
And I'm happy to have another round of tension there with working and planning.
That's what I was just talking about, that two of them really have a great day.
Every time they play against each other.
And you know, then, planning it makes a lot of it, too.
And Rutkus himself says that Burnigan does the best job as anybody in the league of flocking.
This is really a confrontation between the center and it.
Pretty bad, Burnigan's got his head down on every play.
Rutkus playing almost nose to nose with him.
It's second down and seven yards to go.
Landry on the call.
It's really stunning on that defense today.
Here's Alty Taylor, 35, 30.
He's gone to the 26 yard line before he's walked out.
He's gone to hold over the right side and Smith made the tackle for Chicago.
That's another first shot.
That's not their man on that face.
That's the one that Owens busted through for the yardage.
And Taylor followed it beautifully.
The ball is on the 26 yard line of Chicago.
And Landry is doing an exceptional job of mixing up his play, Bob.
Yes, he is.
First and 10 from the bare 26 yard line.
High formation now.
Owens right through the middle.
He's gone to the 18 yard line with that ball.
Rutkus made the tackle, but not before Steve moved it down to the 18,
getting about eight yards on the player.
It'll be second down and two to go.
Owens, second leading rusher in the conference.
Ball is midway between the sideline strikes on the 18 yard line of the Chicago Bears.
Second down and two to go.
Walton to the right side.
McCullough's in the slot to the right.
Sanders is tied in on the left side.
It's an high formation.
Rutkus calling those defensive figures for Chicago and stunning around,
moving around out there.
And they go the other way and it's Owens at the 15, down to the 10.
Owens down to the 7.
First down, that's going.
Lyle made the tackle.
You know, one thing about Dick Baskin's man that we have watched over the years,
he is a gambler.
He likes to gamble.
He likes to guess.
And that time is a typical example of where the big guy gets wrong.
He went to the outside and Landry sent the play to the other side.
And Rutkus was out of position on it.
They caught him looking the other way.
Down to the 6 yard line.
First down and goal to go.
11 yards came down the play.
Walton to the left side.
McCullough to the right side.
Landry really mixing up his plays in this drive, which started on the line in 26.
Owens, he stopped at the 5.
He's got a yard, that's all.
And Rutkus again and on the tackle for Chicago along with Willie Holden,
the defensive left in.
And O'Bradyvich, who's been around longer than George Halleck.
He's been this late 10 years, Ed O'Bradyvich.
He takes mean bills too, that's what he does every day.
Fine football player.
The ball is just over the 6.
Charlie Sanders on the right side, put out a few yards now.
And Larry Walton is also outside on the right.
Landry's back to throw.
He's left throw incomplete.
He threw it to Sanders in the end zone, but it's incomplete.
He almost made up his mind to run.
Smith got a hand on the ball and knocked it right out of Sanders' hands, Bob.
Yes, and he threw that thing like a bullet too.
I don't think Charlie had much of a chance on it.
Landry, as you mentioned, could have run.
He had some room there.
He could have got inside the vibe on it.
But as he said before the season started this year,
that he was going to run only when he felt that he had a real great opportunity.
He would run around, but he's still going to look for those pass receivers
and try to get the ball to them.
Here's that big third down now.
Let's see what he does now.
He might try it wide with Taylor on the pitch.
Let's see.
Or he might, it's third down, remember, and the ball is on about the 6-yard line.
And Landry now is going back to throw.
He gets some time.
He throws it clean, caught out there by Owens,
but a flag is down holding against Detroit.
Now that's something that the Lions would like to have avoided, certainly, right there,
although he didn't pick up enough for the first down,
but the holding penalty will set them back.
It'll still be third down and goal to go.
But instead of being down there inside the 5,
that ball will be moved out somewhere up around the neighborhood of the 20-yard line.
21, actually the 20 with the new statistical rule that they have in the National Football League.
The ball is over the 21-yard going the other way as the Lions are,
why they will officially call it 20 yards.
Owens is out of there and Mel Farr is in now,
making his first appearance after being activated just the other day.
So the down is the third.
It is goal to go, and the ball, that's the 20.
But of course, getting far in there, Bob, not only gives you a running threat,
but he's also a fine pass receiver.
And Triplett is in there now at the pullback spot.
Mel Farr has been activated and can be utilized today and will be.
That goes long to throw.
He throws over the middle and it's in.
It's knocked down, almost unexpected.
He had a hand on the ball and almost intercepted it.
So that brings in the field goal unit for Detroit.
That 15-yard penalty moves the ball back to the 21-yard line.
And so the Lions have Errol Mann in now to attempt.
What's he done so far, Bob?
Man will attempt this one from about the 28-yard line,
and last month he was a hole.
He's 8 out of 14.
8 out of 14 for Errol Mann.
It's an angle at the hash mark off to the left.
The ball is started, the kick is up, and the kick is good.
Throw it to 28-yard field goal, and the clock is just stopped on the field
with a score.
Detroit 3, Chicago nothing.
It's just hard to believe that ball came between Denver and Cleveland
being played in Cleveland at 24-0 now.
Denver leading Cleveland.
28-yard field goal by Errol Mann, the Lions lead at 3-0.
Deep man Art Turner along with Ron Smith.
There's the whistle, here's the booze by man.
High end overhand kick.
Swimming down to Smith at the 2, he's back to the 5,
at the 10, he goes to the 15, 20, 25, 30,
and he's finally hauled down by Charlie Weaver
after a brilliant run back of 41 yards.
So, Weaver finally got him from behind to get him down.
Put that ball on the 41-yard line and make it first down
and tend to go for the Chicago Bears who have good field positions.
And Bobby Douglas, the quarterback, left-handed thrower.
Dick Gordon has 25 receptions for 345 yards to lead the league.
Farmers flank to the right side, Gordon to the left.
They're in a pro set now.
Guy and Grabowski are the setbacks.
Bobby Douglas waiting for it, and Douglas is going back to throw again.
He looks, he throws, and this one is caught at the 45-yard line
in front of Bobby Williams by Farmer.
It'll be a first down for the Bears, and they have the rush on all right,
but Douglas got rid of the ball.
That run back on the kickoff up to the 41-yard line
just emphasizes the importance of the specialty teams here in professional football.
It gave the Bears good field position.
Joe Smith was quoted this week as saying that the specialty teams
are so vitally important that sometimes they can win
three or four ball games a season for you by giving you good field position
by running kickoffs back.
They're very important.
15 yards gained on that play.
The fast farmer to the right side, Gordon to the left side.
The pro set, Grabowski with the football, and he is down to the 41-yard line.
Four yards.
Raleigh Hand made the tackle for Detroit along with Mike Luchy.
Check those linebackers out there.
Walker went out of there with an injured shoulder, but he's back in there again.
Ball is on the 41-yard line.
It will be second down and about seven.
Miami's leading the Jets now 10 to 7.
Houston over Pittsburgh 10 to 6.
Philadelphia leading New York 13 to 7.
Gorse, the only flanker, is put out to the right.
Now they're putting Farmer.
Well, they're changing around the tight end wallets,
moving over on the right side with a second down and about seven.
They're in the high formation.
It's shy with the football, good running room, and he's at the 35-yard line with it.
Tackle is made by Newbaum at the 35-yard line.
He's very close to the first down.
Mike Luchy was also in on the tackle.
And Wallace is going out.
They're going to bring the chain in for a measurement, Robert.
Looks from up here, let's take a guess.
Man, he'll be about a half an inch short.
Douglas standing right over the official shoulder.
Right, Robert, I think it's an inch, just about an inch.
Now coming in here for the Chicago Bears.
Gray Ogden is coming in.
He's from Alabama, seven years in the league.
And he's coming in there in place of Farmer.
Gordon is set out to the right side, doing an high formation,
a tight formation with the exception of Gordon.
And the pro set with Grabowski and Chai.
Bobby Douglas in the third down, and they make contact out there.
Lions look like they might have jumped offside.
Let's see if they drew them off.
The play is right on the 35-yard line.
It was against Detroit, of course.
It'll get them a first down.
And the officials will walk it off against Detroit.
They've got two costly penalties here in this first quarter.
With five minutes and 16 seconds to go in the first quarter,
three to nothing to point.
The ball is moved down to the 30-yard line,
where it's first down for the Chicago Bears.
This is what Joe was talking about then this week, too.
And he said, you know, we can't keep making these mistakes
as we made in the Houston game, and the week before that,
and the week before that, and continue to win.
You've got to cut down on them.
They hurt you.
One-on-one over here, Farmer and Bobby Williams,
although Mike Wigger is dropping off and having a look over there.
And Douglas back throws, and it is completed.
At the 23-yard line, out of bounds on the 21 goes Farmer.
And they're picking on Bobby Williams over there,
the cornerback in place there for Lynn Barney.
Douglas is an interesting story.
He's a youngster from Kansas who's only in his third season.
And he threw four left-handed touchdown passes
against Buffalo last November, his third,
and has developed his final appearance of the season
because very early in the game he had a fractured wrist
and actually threw three of those four touchdowns
with the fractured wrist.
He didn't play after that.
Farmer's caught three passes for 26 yards.
He's on the right side, Gordon on the left side,
the ball on the 21, and it's a shy 15-10-5 touchdown,
Chicago.
Down shy, just whipped right through there,
and scored for Chicago, and the Bears are leading.
59 yards in five plays.
He went 21 yards on the touchdown runoff right back on.
Oh, he was.
21 yards.
He's 6'1", a five-year man from San Diego State.
Don's shy.
Now we'll have the crowd support Matt Percival.
He'll attempt the extra point Bobby Douglas will hold.
The Bears are out in front, 6-3.
So they came right back.
5-0-4 to go in the first quarter.
Kick is up and good.
The practice stopped on the field with a score,
Chicago 7-3, on the touchdown of Don Shy.
Percival moves forward.
Here's the kick high and overhand kick going back forward
is Jesse, and it goes out of the end zone.
It'll be brought back out the 20-yard line in play there,
first down and 10 to go.
Both the Detroit Lions are on the short end
of a 7-3 score to the Chicago Bears.
They almost throw the odds right out the window
every time these two clubs get together.
Atlanta is still leading New Orleans 21-3.
He had Denver ahead of Cleveland 24 to nothing.
First and 10 Detroit from their own 20-yard line.
Landry sends McCullough to the left,
Walton to the right, Taylor and Owens to the setbacks.
And here's they get to Owens.
And Owens gets to about the 22-yard line
and Bucks has pulled him back.
Lubach here was also in there on the tackle.
It'll be a gain of a couple of yards,
second down coming up.
Also in there was George Seale,
defensive tackle from Missouri.
Second and eight for Detroit from their own 22-yard line.
The Lions break out of it with McCullough to the left,
Walton to the right, Charlie Sanders on the right side.
Throw set, Taylor and Owens,
Greg Landry calling the fixers.
But this is stationary this time.
He is moving in motion now.
It goes out to Taylor.
And back goes Landry to throw.
Stays in the pocket, looks, throws to McCullough,
and he's whipped down.
McCullough's whipped down on the 45-yard line.
Bucks is down at the 10-yard line.
It'll be a personal foul,
against the Chicago Bears down there,
one of the Bears a little overly aggressive with an elbow.
Number 57 down there.
57, or who is it?
I can't see from here.
The last man there talking up, George Seale.
Throw a little elbow at the number 67.
That's right, it's Seale.
Who threw an elbow at Landry after he got rid of the ball.
So of course the Lions will pick up the first down on the penalty.
To the 37-yard line, where they'll have it first and 10.
We've got 414 remaining here in the first quarter.
7 of 3, Chicago.
McCullough, whoops, he was open,
and he would have caught the ball, but he slipped, fell.
First and 10 from the 37.
Taylor in motion again.
Moving to the left side, and back goes Landry.
Throws over to the middle.
Sanders at the 15-yard line.
He's got down on the 43-yard line.
Charlie Sanders, catching the reception, and forward.
Make the pass.
Charlie Ford from Houston, a rookie.
At 6, first down, 44.
They have it on the bare 43, so the Lions are coming right back.
With 3.58 to go in the first quarter, and they're down by 4, 73.
Flanagan at the center.
Mccullough and Gallagher, the guards.
Freitas and Yarborough, the tackle.
20 yards on that play.
McCullough and Sanders, the ends.
It's all on the 43-yard line of the Chicago Bears.
McCullough to the right side.
Larry Walton deployed to the left, and Sanders on the left.
Taylor and Owens, right back at the quarterback, Greg Landry.
Three and a half minutes to play in the first quarter.
Landry on a give to Owens, the tap up the middle, and he's down to the 37-yard line.
With it brought down by Butchers.
Let's pause briefly for station identification.
This is the Detroit Lions football network.
Brad Patrick, along with Bob Reynolds at Tiger Stadium.
Owens in seven carries has gained 41 yards today.
Walton to the left side.
McCullough to the right, second and fourth.
He's got six on that carry.
And Landry now on a pitch to Taylor, trying to go wide, runs into a lot of traffic.
He's down on the 41-yard line, number 63 there.
Walton just couldn't clear him out.
Grubacher made the tackle along with Jeter.
So the ball is back on the 41.
The series originated on the 43, so it's third and eight.
And an almost obvious passing situation now for young Greg Landry.
And coming in defensively, the Dooley shift, as they call it, in Chicago.
He started putting in those extra defensive pats.
And he's in.
Yard is coming in there, making McGee out.
McCullough to the left, Walton to the right, third down, eight.
Landry with a long cadence count, and Landry is going back to bro.
Bates in the pocket, gets the time.
Finally runs out of it, but he's going to be dropped back on the 42-yard line by Willie Holden.
You can just hold it so long, and you get in trouble.
The Bears have the prevent defense on against Pats.
And of course, they had only four minutes on everybody covering them.
They knew that Landry was going to go to the air on it.
He just couldn't get anybody loose.
So he got trapped back there at the 42-yard line.
And Earl Mann is in now.
He'll put this one from the neighborhood of the midfield marker.
And there's not much of a factor, though, I think, what there is, man.
He's got a little bit at his back here.
Well, I suppose if you call it a 49-yard attempt,
grass muck will hold.
That serves the purpose of the front if he doesn't get it in there.
Bears drop a man back, Turner.
The kick by Earl Mann.
He's got the distance all right, and it's good.
29-yard field goal by Earl Mann.
It's 1 o'clock to stop on the field to score.
Chicago 7 to Drake 6.
Earl Mann, who just booted the field goal,
sets the ball up on the 40 and is all set.
Turner and Smith are the deep men for Chicago.
Here's the whistle.
Here's the boot by Mann.
Good high and overhand kick.
Down to the 2-yard line.
It's taken by Smith to the 5, 10, 15, goes to the 20.
And he has walked down on the 26-yard line.
And Drake's gotten his man.
Nicky Zopko made a dive for him back on the 15, Bob,
and almost got him back there.
24-yard return.
The ball is on the 26-yard line.
The man is 6'1", 28'1", 49.
But the Lions are still on the short end of the 7 to 6 score.
Dallas leading New England 10 to nothing in the first quarter.
Now we'll see now whether Lions defense can shore up a little bit on those running plays.
Gordon and Farmer are flanked.
Gordon to the right side.
Shy and Drabowski the setbacks.
And here's Douglas going to give the shy.
And Shy gets about a yard or two.
And that's all trying the left side.
Mike Lucey and Wayne Walker and Jim Mitchell and Jerry Rush all in there to make the tackle for Detroit.
And they'll mark that ball on the 27.
He got exactly 1 yard on the play.
Coming in now is Carl Thomas replacing Bob Wallace at the tight end for Chicago.
Bobby Williams over there.
His job on the left side.
And he keeps covering the man over there on the right side of Chicago.
And it's Farmer over there now.
And Weager dropping off a little bit to keep an eye on him also.
And it's one-on-one LeBeau over there with Gordon to give us the shy breakthrough.
He's at the 35.
He's up to the 39-yard line.
And they had him stop back there on the line of scrimmage.
Evey and Newmont had him, but he broke through and picked up a first down on the 39-yard line.
Now on the touchdown run of Shy, there was some shy tackling and there was some more right there.
Once you have them contained, you better hang on to them.
Big play there for the Bears who move with a first down to their own 39-yard line.
Just a matter of one second left here at the end of the quarter.
That's it.
That's the end of the first quarter and the score.
Chicago 7, Detroit 6.
And it's completed out there at the 45 to Shy.
And Shy is hit at the 45 by Wayne Walker and brought down on the 45-yard line.
But he's got 6 yards on the play.
Second down and 4 to go for Chicago.
Jerry Rush was also in on the tackle.
The way out is in there now.
And the first down, the racing farmer, Gordon on the right side, the I-formation.
Second down and about 4 yards to go.
Now in the pro set, Bobby Douglas running the ball.
Club Belong including the linebackers almost on the line of scrimmage.
Shy with the football and he is hit at the 45.
Trying to go off right tackle and Paul Newmont on the tackle with Mike Lucey.
And on the bottom of the fire Jim Mitchell.
So they'll mark that ball just over the 45-yard line, which brings up a third down.
Now farmers coming back in and Hodgkin goes out.
Bears are leading.
San Francisco and St. Louis have nothing, nothing at the end of one.
In that first period the Lions got 6 first downs.
The Bears 4.
Rushing, the Lions 52 and the Bears 50.
And so the statistics are indicative of the closest to the score, 7 to 6.
Shy of 6 carries has gained 47 yards.
Pro set, two flankers.
Third down, about 3, 3 and a half to go.
Douglas on the call.
Big play for him right here.
He's going back to throw.
Bears in that pocket.
Let's go.
Young B down.
Look out.
Third, 25, 25, 25.
Farmers touchdown.
Chicago.
They got behind Bobby Williams over there.
And he pulled that hamstring again.
Williams did around the 15-yard line.
He was limping.
Beautifully thrown fast.
Right on the money.
To George Farmer.
He's got to throw 74 and 5 and pick up the touchdown on the 45-yard fast play.
There wasn't much Williams could do after Farmer got behind him.
He's still bothered by that pull hamstring and the pass was right where it should have been.
And so the Bears now have gone out in front.
13 to 6 that are about to make it 14 on Percival's BAT.
He really was open.
Ball is spun.
Kick is up and the pitch is good.
The clock is stopped on the field with a score.
Chicago 14, Detroit 6.
Farmer with that catch now has caught four for 71 and the touchdown.
And Douglas has done an exceptionally fine job.
He is 5 for 5 for 80 yards.
Deeth Jesse along with Al Clark and here's Percival's kick.
High end over end kick and Jesse waits for it.
He's got the heart, makes it in the end zone.
He comes back to the 5, goes to the 10.
Let's have a block at the 15.
He's to the 40, the 45, the 30, the 35.
He's at the 40, the 45, the 50, the 45, the 40, the 45, the 30, the 45, the 30, the 25.
20, 15, win 5, touchdown!
102 yards.
Officially 102 yards as we call.
Ron Chucky electrified this crowd and they're all standing at 5 or 6.
That was something.
And how the blocking formed for him over there.
He made one good move at his own 35 yard line.
And then picking up the blocking was gone.
And now you see why this young man is the leading front return, kickoff return in the lead.
Well, man, this kick is good.
Brought the stop for the score, Chicago 14, Detroit 13.
That was Jesse's seventh kickoff return for 297 yards.
Here's the big bye man.
It's a high end over end kick but short.
Down on the 7.
It's taken over there by Turner at the 15, 20, 25.
He is fifth drop.
Every week there's a 26 yard line.
Bill Crippett is the captain of this specialty team and Bill Crippett made the tackle.
Incidentally, there are eight clubs in the National Football Conference that have special team captains.
Only two, however, in the American Football Conference.
We mentioned Lem Barney is absent today.
He's resting at home and I hope certainly he's enjoying the ball game.
Lem, we hope you'll be back with us again real soon.
Incidentally, missing only his third game, man, in his entire career.
He's a great football player and a great individual.
Pender is in there now fullback for Chicago.
Two flankers waiting for it now as the quarterback Bobby Douglas.
He's back to throw.
Bill going back and batted down by Jim Mitchell.
Mitchell moved three down, batted that ball down.
That little pressure on Douglas Uptown.
San Francisco leads St. Louis leading up into the second quarter.
Al Clark has replaced Bobby Williams over there because Williams has a full drawing muscle.
He just couldn't run at all a while ago on that touchdown that the Bears picked up.
So Al Clark is in there, youngster from Eastern Michigan.
He's at the cornerback.
You can imagine he's got a few butterflies.
Heading forward is Bobby Douglas.
Douglas on a give, not a pender.
Pender ripping off white tackle.
It drops on the 30-yard line.
Mike Lucey hitting first.
Then Jerry Rush, the bottom of the pile, Jim Mitchell.
So the series originating on the 26th, the ball is on the 30th, so that means third down, six Bears leading 14 to 13 with 11.58 to play in the first half.
You know, Van, that kickoff return of Jesse is his seventh for 297.
Gives him an average of 49 every time that he's carried the ball on a kickoff return.
Two touchdowns.
He's number one in the league, and Gibson of the Lions is number two.
Third down.
Here's the process with the two-plackers.
Bobby Douglas with a passing situation confronting him.
Looks over the defense.
Now he's going back to throw.
He throws a swing pass out in the left flap.
It's completed for a left.
Bobby Vaughn made the top-along throw tender back on the 27-yard line.
And it's four to nine.
That kickoff return was only two yards short of the all-time Lions kickoff return record held by Terry Barr.
I was just going to guess.
Yeah, fine.
And let me tell you something, I would have been wrong.
I was thinking about Bob Smith.
Terry Barr and Gene Getman.
I would have been wrong.
Quick formation now.
Bobby Joe Green is back there.
Chuck Hughes is back here along with Larry Walton in the safety position, and they get it away.
High foul.
Fair catch is called for by Larry Walton on the 32-yard line.
The Lions have the football first and 10 after that 41-yard kick from their own 32.
Dallas leads New England 10-7 in the first quarter.
Philadelphia ahead of New York 13-7.
San Francisco prevailing over St. Louis 3-0.
In the third quarter, Miami leads the Jets 13-7.
Houston over Pittsburgh 10-6.
Last night, San Diego beat Buffalo 20-3.
Got a dandy coming up tomorrow night, too, man.
And that Baltimore Vittorio.
What a cruncher that'll be.
Great football game that'll be.
You won't be rooting for Baltimore, will you?
I'd like to see him do it, you know.
Simply because they're a moral picture, right, guys?
With a standing for central division, I'd love to do it with you.
Oh, my golly, that's right.
Yeah.
Well, we've got a timeout down there.
The ball at the 32-yard line.
When we get playing again, the Lions will have it.
First down and 10.
We've got 10-39 remaining here in the first half of this ballgame with the Lions failing by 1-14 to 13 in the typical Lions-vera football game.
Lions, incidentally, speaking of Monday night, will be next in action a week from tomorrow night at Milwaukee.
And that, too, ought to be something as we meet the Green Bay Packers up there on Monday night.
Right ball, first and 10 on the 32-yard line of Detroit.
Two planters, two setbacks, Taylor Nolan.
Red Landry, the quarterback, calling the signals.
And Landry ought to give the horns on through the middle.
Gets only yard or two and brought down right up the middle.
The tackle is made by Dunlop-Om, the linebacker of the Chicago Bears.
So mark the ball on the 33-yard line.
George Fields also on the tackle.
And the ball is marked on the 33.
The only yard gained by Steve in the second down.
And nine to go for the Detroit Lions who are trailing the Chicago Bears 14 to 13.
Walton and McCullough are both on the left side.
The Lions are lining up in an eye formation now.
Charlie Sanders on the right side.
Greg Landry calling the signal.
Landry breaks the ball, keeps it himself.
Makes it to Owens and keeps it himself and goes through the 37 on the keeper.
And Gary Lyle made the tackle for the Chicago Bears at that point.
I think now, yet, Taylor trailing him around the left side,
that he might have intended to cross it to Taylor,
but then he thought it was a little dangerous.
One of those defensive backs coming up to cover.
It's an option play for Greg.
He can take a quick look and do whichever he wants on it.
He can pitch it out or keep it himself.
He thought he'd spot a little running room until he kept it,
but just slowed him up, grabbed him by the sleeve and slowed him up.
And then the tackle was made secure by Gary Lyle.
It's all on the 38-yard line.
It's third down and four.
Walton to the right side.
McCullough to the left side.
The pros set.
But just standing in the middle of that line again.
That goes Landry staying in the pocket.
He left, he throws to Walton at the 42.
He's out of bounds.
On the 37-yard line, first down, McCroy.
On the barrel, 37.
Lyley Walton making the reception.
That's great protection for Greg Landry, Bob.
Indeed.
And of course he came up with that big third down play, too,
covering 25 yards to keep things moving.
So the Lions now are first and 10 at the barrel, 37.
Nine, 10 to play here in the first half.
That's Tiger Stadium, another set-out crowd watching this way.
Very old-ish cast day.
Very foggy here, as it has been for a couple of days.
To hide the right is McCullough.
The left side is Walton.
The Lions have a first down on the Chicago 37-yard line.
Walton and Taylor split in the backfield behind Greg Landry.
That goes Landry.
He throws a little swing back out in the left flat.
I don't know why did he hit that ball?
I believe he tipped the ball.
He didn't.
Looks like he might have tipped it a little bit.
Anyway, it's thrown a little bit behind Larry Walton.
He had no chance to get the ball.
It goes back to the 37-yard line, where it will be second down
and 10 yards to go now for the Detroit Lions from that point.
Lions are trailing by a point, 14 to 13, with nine minutes
and seven seconds of playing time remaining.
Nice to have you with us.
I hope you're enjoying the ball game today wherever you are.
It's the Bears and the Lions at Tiger Stadium, Detroit.
Wide to the right is McCullough.
Split out to the left is Walton.
Greg Landry barking out the six.
Looking over that defense.
He gives it all to Taylor.
Taylor off left tackle is tipped up and the flag is down.
He got to the 35-yard line where the flag went down.
The Bears will be called for offside on the play, man.
The play used to be a help.
It'll be second down and the five to go.
A little of any yardage gained a couple on the play,
but the offside against the Bears will make it second down
and five and give the Lions a break in there.
Glad to have with us today some of our fine dealers from the
Marathon Auto Company who are enjoying the ball game up here
with us at Tiger Stadium along with 54,000 other fans.
That's the third penalty against the Bears for 25 yards
and brings up, as we mentioned, the second down.
Five to go for Detroit from the 32.
14-13, 9-0-2 to play here in the first half.
Dallas leading New England 17-7 now in the second quarter
and San Francisco leading St. Louis 10 to nothing.
High formation, two flankers.
They've led the zone to the left side this time.
Sanders is on the right side.
Greg Landry with the ball.
He gives it to Owens.
Owens to the 30, down to the 27-yard line with it
before he's brought down.
Steve Orr, twisting and turning with Jerry Lyle
and Dick Kutcher holding onto it.
He got very close to a first down for Detroit.
Atlanta 21, New Orleans 6 in the third quarter.
And Denver continues to lead Cleveland 24 to nothing.
I know a lot of those fans over at the Cleveland Stadium
have those radios looking like ball game, Bob,
and I know they're a little shocked over there right now.
Craig Cotton is coming in, getting too tight in for Detroit.
Little Triple has come in there also as Larry Welton goes out.
On this short yardage situation, third down,
less than a yard to go.
A lot of excitement out here, but the Lions are still
on the short end of the 14-13 score.
Their old man has kicked two field goals, 28, 49 yards.
Look at this formation.
There's the power eye.
All right, and we've seen that.
And here's Landry faking it to Owen,
picking it back here to Taylor,
and he's got a first down on the sweep.
Step around the right side, and Jerry Lyle
ran him out of bounds.
Muckus is helping to officiate down there, Van.
He's put his finger, his foot down to the back here.
And I think he'll say, no, up here, enough for the first down.
So the Lions keep it going, and Cotton and Triplett
do the job that they went in there to do.
It'll be first and 10 Detroit now at the 27-yard line
of the Bears with 8 minutes short.
That's just a whistle.
Well, off the left side, McCullough to the right side,
first and 10 from the 27 of the Bears.
Landry and that power eye a moment ago.
Now he's got him back in the process.
Here's Owen following his locker, Flanagan.
He's down to the 20, 19.
The phone puts him up.
Flanagan doing a good job of leading the way for him.
The ball is spotted on the 20-yard line.
So a gain of 7 by Steve Owens, and he's picking up some yardage
and 10 carries, he's gained 54 yards.
That's a 5.4, doesn't it?
You've got to think about it.
Even with the new man.
What are we going to do when they can't go in the meeting?
Well, they'll find a way.
Second down, coming up at 3 to go.
Eye formation, left the zone to the left with two receivers over there.
Sanders on the right side.
Here's Owen, and he is down to the 16-yard line on brute strength,
making the tackle with Buccus and Charlie Ford.
And it's another first down for Detroit on the 16-yard line,
and that's 9 first down.
What a bread and butter runner he is.
He's got to have that 2 or 3 yards.
He'll give it to Steve every time.
He may get stopped occasionally, but he's good for 2 or 3 most of the time.
He's developed a couple pretty good moves, man, too,
like he gets back that line of scum as we noticed over the last 2 or 3 ball games.
I think probably the most surprising thing about Owens is the fact that he's one of the better blockers
down the lead, he is.
It's beginning to rain at Tiger Stadium.
Double wing formation, he's used all kinds of formations today.
He's about to go, looks close to the end of the line, and he's got to.
15-yard touchdown, a post pattern run by Larry Wabbert.
And Landry hit it beautifully.
Landry moves 68 yards in 9 plays and takes the lead now in the tailgame again.
Grassmuth will haul, and Arrowman will attempt to make it 20 to 14.
Slap, placement, pitch, good. Clock is stopped, scored, it's twice night, 20 now, Chicago 14.
Arrowman setting it up on the 40 now as the Lions go out in front with 6.25 remaining in the first half, 20 to 14.
Owens in 11 carries 58 yards.
Landry 4 out of 7 in the air for 75, and that touchdown to Walton.
Here's the deep along with Turner, and here's the boot.
Coming down the slip on the goal line, he's back to the 5, 10, 15, 20.
Right through the middle, Charlie Weaver got him.
Will he be in there?
And that is also Jesse and Bell on the tackle for Detroit.
So the ball will be marked on the 29-yard line, a 29-yard return.
It'll be first and 10 to go for the Chicago Bears from their own 29.
Still winning, but not very heavy, but enough to get up the umbrella.
Rain was forecast.
Shy is back in there at fullback for Chicago.
Al Clark playing that cornerback.
Right to the left now is Gordon, to the right is Farmer.
High formation Bobby Douglas, breaks him into the pro set.
And Douglas going back to throw.
He looks downfield, he looks, he throws, and it is caught but out of bounds by Farmer.
And let's pause briefly for station identification.
This is the Detroit Lions football network.
Charlie Pittsburgh, 16 to 6 in the third quarter.
The penalty backfield in motion against Chicago was declined by Detroit,
which makes it second and 10 with the ball on the 29-yard line of Chicago.
Farmer to the right, Gordon to the left.
Bobby Douglas brings him out of it.
Lions lead 20 to 14.
Shy is, Grabowski on the running back.
And here is Shy, breaking into the play again, a broken popper,
and he's finally brought down on the 42-yard line and the flag is down.
Walker, Clark, and they're looking there as Clark.
They had a personal foul call against the Lions on the end of that one.
That's the second one.
That moves the ball deep, 42-yard line.
Personal foul call against Detroit, puts the ball at the 42,
gives the Bears another first down.
You know, you're talking about the rain, man, I'm over it too.
I'll tell you, when it rains in Texas, it really rains.
They wear umbrellas in the Astrodome down.
Ha ha.
Good last week.
That did last week.
Gordon Wides the left.
Farmer is put out to the right.
First down on the Lions, 42, another costly penalty.
Lions with defensive now jobs to be done,
and the Grabowski piled up there on the 39-yard line, trying to run off left guard.
And there's Jerry Rush and Dick Eadie.
He's playing against his old teammates.
Wayne Walker also on the tackle.
Change of tight end again is Thomas McGrady with Wallace.
They may be calling some plays for Bobby Douglas.
Jim Dooley, the coach, has been rooming with Douglas all week in Chicago.
Saying that Douglas's apartment, he said he was a bad cook.
The lousy cook, he said.
He said, yeah, I do all the dishes.
Two flankers now.
Gordon to the left, Farmer to the right.
Five minutes to play in the half.
Douglas with a long cadence count, gives it to Schia, and the whole pair again,
right through the middle.
He's at the 35 and down to the 34.
Oh, he's going to find out the running for all what he picked up today now.
He's doing a good job.
Now Wallace is back in at the tight end, the ball's on the 34.
He carries 66 yards.
I tell you something, I think he's getting some help on the right side of his offensive line, too.
They are blocking very well.
On the three of his runs to the right side, they've used the trap play and very effectively.
Well, the rain is about to stop.
Now the sun's trying to break through all this overcast here.
Ogden has replaced Farmer.
Now here's almost a double wing, and they give it to Schia.
Schia again, breaks the tackle.
He's down to the 30.
I want to tell you something, the Lions are not tackling the way they've been tackling.
And they're bouncing well from today, and that's a first down for Chicago on the 30,
and the Bears are coming right back again.
I tell you, there's nothing shy about Schia.
He just puts his head down and rams in there.
He got into only eight games for the Bears last year, but he had 227 yards rushing and caught 10 passes.
He was Pittsburgh's second draft choice in 67 and was with the Steelers a couple of years
before they traded him to New Orleans in 1969.
This is San Diego.
Douglas on the call from the pro set.
On the 30, back goes Douglas.
He lifts, he throws, and it's caught at the 15-yard line.
Dick LeBoe makes the tackle on Gordon, but he's picked it off, the leading receiver in the conference.
First down on the 15-yard line.
I want to tell you, young Douglas is doing a good job for the Chicago Bears.
He's moving his ball club well.
Lions are leading 20 to 14 over Chicago.
Pender comes in and Schia goes out.
That's a change in the backfield for Chicago.
15-yard line, first down and 10 to go for Chicago.
They started this drive on their own, 29, and they have moved it down to 15.
That is a guy who has played as little as Douglas.
He's seven out of nine for 92.
He's doing a great job for the Bears.
Douglas with the pro set again is going back to throw once more.
Stays in that pocket.
He has to run out of it.
He lifts, he throws.
It's caught for a touchdown by Wallace.
The tight end.
We had all night to throw it too, I'll tell you.
And you cannot give the quarterback that much opportunity and that much of a time element
to take out of his receivers because somebody is going to break the pattern and get loose,
and that's exactly what happened on that touchdown pass.
And the Bears now have come back, moving 71 yards in sixth place to take the lead again.
At the moment, it's Hyatt and Mack Percival.
Plus he falls down and breaks both legs.
We'll probably put the Bears in front right here, 21 to 20.
Pick it up and good.
All the Chicago Bears have taken the lead again.
They are leading Detroit by a score of 21 to 20.
Hyatt out-checked the other scorers.
Dallas leads New England 17 to 7 in the second quarter.
The Dodgers 13, New York 7 in the second quarter.
Trans-Portisco leads St. Louis 10 to nothing in the second quarter.
Houston 16, Pittsburgh 6.
Miami leading New York 13 to 7.
And Denver leading Cleveland 27 and up.
The tight end Wallace caught the touchdown pass.
And he has three Lions around him, too.
I don't know how he got that one, but I'll say this,
Douglas hit him perfectly.
So now the Chicago Bears will pick off to Detroit,
and Ron Jeffery will have a chance to do his thing again.
Al Crotch is going back with Ron Jeffery.
That first of all, who just floated the extra point
to give the Bears the lead, 21 to 20, will kick off.
And Douglas, with that completion for the touchdown,
is now 8 out of 10 for 107 yards.
I'll tell you what, if he keeps going like that,
he's going to be a great hitter.
He's going to be a great hitter.
His game is to 7 yards.
I'll tell you what, if he keeps going like this,
then the Chicago fans will go to duly.
Where has he been all the rest of his team?
He's left-handed.
Here's the kick.
High floating kick.
Jeffery in the end zone by 2 yards.
One, ten, fifteen,
and he's going to be dropped this time on the 17 yard line.
Barely holding out, finally,
making the tackle in there with그렇.
Detroit and not particularly great field position as they have the ball on their own 17 yard
line with a first and 10 to go from that point.
Denver 27 Cleveland nothing.
Bynum back in the huddle now they'd like to get back to the least in field goal position
here with only 220 to play in the first half.
Walton to the right side McCullough to the right side Sanders is put out on the left
side a double ring all into the slot and it's Taylor with the football following his rockers
at the 20 up to the 25 yard line with it and all down there on the 25 by Ed O'Tredovich
number 87.
And here's the two minute warning coming up exactly two minutes to play in the first
half.
Andrew going over to the side of the ice coach Joe Schmidt to figure out what the two minute
build strategy will be here training as they are by one point with two minutes left to
play.
That last play was how do you get a carrying the ball you see that so many times Taylor
is that those very quick feet he had Walton out in front of him he goes to the other side
he has Gallagher out in front of him and so many times you'll see him up there with his
hand on the blocker just to get going just a little bit move one way or the other so
I can get a little running road that time.
Walton made the wrong move went out to the outside and Taylor tried to go outside too
and the tackle was made after the pick up of about eight yards on it.
So we've got a difficult Bear Lion game here with two minutes to play in the first half
twenty one to twenty with the Bears out in front and Bobby Douglas their Cinderella quarterback
that's all you can call him here today because he was pressed into service strictly out of
necessity doing a great job.
First and 10 from the second down brother and about two or three from the twenty seven
humble but Landry covers it.
Aldi Taylor fumbled the ball but Greg Landry fell on the ball Willie Holman disengaged
him from the ball.
They lose the score to 10 to 7 San Francisco now in the second quarter.
The ball is on the twenty one yard line series originated on the 17th so it'll be third down
in the long six so far in this ball game.
Herman Weaver hasn't had the punch for the Lions.
They've been able to pick up these third down situations and they've got a big one here.
Lions are the highest scoring team of the league.
They had 150 points going into this one so they've got 170 points so far but they're
failing.
21 to 20 Landry back to throw he's going to be done and over out of it.
They've got the laundry and stocking back on the 12 yard line and now Weaver will get
his opportunity about first chance to punt right here.
I wanted to see the boys exciting once he either gets a nine yards or 99 right here
the Lions would like to see him really booted.
There's a timeout with 113 remain.
Philadelphia still leading with Giants and the fourth period now 16 to 7.
They lose maybe a little closer there that game with the 49ers and seven in the second
period.
We mentioned earlier the Lions next game is a week from tomorrow night at Milwaukee
where they'll take on the Green Bay Packers and the extravaganza of each Monday night.
Weaver walking back into the end zone now getting set for the snap of that planet going
to him.
Weaver needs to get a foot in the ditch.
Weaver gets his kick away and he really pulled it out of the way all the way down to the
36 yard line.
He's dropped down on the 48 yard line.
Back over to the 46 yard six on the part of Herman Weaver when he needed it.
So the ball is on the 48 yard line of Chicago first and 10 for the Bears with a minute two
seconds of playing time remaining in the first half.
The Bears now would like to move down to where they can try to three leading at 21 to 20.
Jordan and Farmer the blankers.
Gordon on the left side.
Bobby Douglas going back to throw.
Let's go to swing fast to Gwipowski.
He's at the 50th flag.
He's down to the 41 yard line.
40 yard line.
And in there is Ed Mooney now making the tackle for Detroit.
But the looks like the family is going to be against the Bears.
Ed Mooney is in there in place of Wayne Walker.
No he's not.
Walker is in there.
He's out of there.
Well they have an extra line back there in the back.
We saw three linebackers.
Newmauk, Rukey and Walker and then Mooney is another linebacker.
Four penalties, 40 yards.
So we got four linebackers in there.
Rock shows 42 seconds.
15 yard penalty against the Chicago Bears pushing on the play.
Back first down 25 from the 34.
Douglas now with two blankers.
Back to throw again.
Stays in the pocket.
Throw to swing fast to Gwipowski.
And he is walked down by Al Clark and Paul Newmauk on the 30 yard line.
No game on the play.
Two or three to roll.
We came up with three point victories.
I asked the owner of the Lions, Bill Ford, just before the Houston game,
I said once, you know just once, can we win one by a touchdown?
He said, what do you want, a route?
Paul on the 34 yard line.
It is second down and 25 yards to go.
That's 23 really.
The Bears break out of it.
They send Farmer to the left, Gordon to the right.
Bobby Douglas, two flip backs and back he goes to throw.
He gets all day to throw and he throws it out of bounds.
Gordon fell down.
That stops the clock.
That offensive line really doing a job with the Bears.
Giving Douglas plenty of time.
And that happens when you've got a situation like the Bears have here with a quarterback
pressed into service with their regulars, Ken and the Knicks out of the lineup.
Sometimes the lineman will say, well we've got to do just a little bit more.
We've got to put out just a little bit more to protect the kid.
And they certainly have done it here today.
He's had plenty of time to throw.
He walks up that line of scrimmage with all the boys in the world.
Two flankers in the high formation, third down, 23.
Douglas calling.
Douglas on the draw now gives it to Drabowski.
He runs right in the bell.
The flag is down.
On the 35 yard line, Bell made the tackle.
He's in there to tackle Scott along with Wayne Walker on Drabowski.
But the flag is down.
LeBow and Gordon having some words down there.
Dick, the former Michigan State star, the flag was thrown down when Gordon evidently pushed LeBow.
And the flag went down and the bow had some words with him about it.
And they walked back toward the football together.
And at the last moment, Gordon gave him a shove.
But the penalty was not for that.
It had been called before that for offensive pushing.
And that moved the ball back inside the 20 of the Bears now, down around the 18 yard line.
What the official was doing was telling LeBow, now just keep your mouth, you know,
I'll be yakking it up out there.
65 yards and six penalties.
The end of that chain is all the way down to the 42 yard line.
They're back on the 18.
So that's third down.
Let's call it long yard.
Very long.
All right.
At 37, 38.
Waiting for it now is Douglas.
He gives it off to Shy.
Shy right through the middle.
Brings it up to the 28 yard line.
They stop the clock with 18 seconds to go.
It's fourth down coming up so the Lions will get an opportunity to get the football again.
Dallas leading New England 27 to 7.
New York 16 to 7.
Giants failing the Eagles.
The ball is on the 28 yard line and Chuck Hughes and Larry Walton are going back now
in the double safety spot for Detroit with 18 seconds of playing time remaining in the first half of Tiger Stadium.
Leeds from tomorrow night will be in Milwaukee County Stadium to face the Green Bay Packers.
Houston leading Pittsburgh 16 to 9 in the third quarter.
Bobby Joe Green back in front.
Here's the kick.
High spiral on back court is Larry Walton.
He's got it on the 22 of their catch.
Did they throw a flag?
Yeah they did.
Bell ran into him bad down there.
He just couldn't stop his momentum.
That's about the third time that the youngster has been caught with that kind of a play.
He's very quick and he just cannot seem to stop when he puts the pressure on the kicker.
And he definitely ran into women knocked him down.
And so the penalty will be stepped off there against Detroit.
Now in college football, a roughing the kicker penalty does not mean an automatic first down.
But in professional football it does.
And so it will be the first down for the Bears at the 34 yard line.
And with 11 seconds left, it gives Douglas an opportunity of course to go for the ball.
At the 34 yard line, first and 10.
That's 10 first downs for the Bears today.
Bobby Douglas calling the signals and Douglas is going to keep it open play.
He's knocked on the 34 yard line.
Time will run out.
That'll be lucky to get a timeout call and they do.
Five seconds of playing time remaining.
Douglas on a broken play just fell on the ball.
So the Bears will have another shot with the ball on the 34 yard line.
It'll be second down and 10 to go.
Mike Rucci calling the defensive signals.
Mike was fined $300 by the commissioner.
Where is the rhubarb out here against the Packers?
$50 is the standard fine and the other $250 for each word that he used.
Even a dollar a word.
They were pretty tough words that one day.
Second and 10 to go now for the Bears who are leading by one, 21 to 20.
Jordan to the left side and farmers deployed to the right side.
This may be the last play of this half.
Bob Bell in there defensively at that tackle spot.
And it is Gribowski and he is dropped on the 41 and time runs out.
There's the gun.
That's the end of the first half of the score.
Chicago 21 to 20.
You'll see Bob Clark along with Ron Jesse dropping back in the deep spots to get the final two periods of play underway.
And this sellout crowd of 54,000 plus settling back in their seats.
They watch another half of action.
And they are ready to bring it to you.
Man Patrick.
All right Bob Reynolds and first of all, Booth Fallen and Booth sit high and over in deep into the end zone.
It's taken him to goal post.
So he'll be brought back out to 21st down and 10 to go.
Philadelphia leads New York 23 to 7.
Dallas rolling over to England 34 to 7.
They're in the second quarter in that one.
And Atlanta is leading New Orleans 28 to 6.
Denver ahead of Cleveland 27 to nothing.
It's Houston 16, Pittsburgh 9 and Miami leading New Jersey or New York Jets rather 27 to 14.
Nothing on the Kansas City Washington game.
That's one of the standout ballgames.
First and 10 Detroit from their own 20.
Waltham to the right side.
McCullers also on the spot on the right side.
The eye formation with Owens and Taylor right back at Greg Landry.
And here's the game to Taylor.
Following Owens gets a block, turns the corner to 25, comes up to the 29.
Getting nine yards.
And Dick Pupchis made the tackle for Chicago.
McCullers is also on the block on that play.
And so the ball will be marked on the 29.
It will be a second down and one to go for the Detroit Lions.
Landry with four out of seven for 75 yards in the first half.
Taylor in six carries at 17.
Owens in 11 carries at 57.
Landry in one has five.
Landry ready now with the two flankers again.
McCullers to the right side.
Bucke is starting a little with Owens on the top.
And Owens to the 33 and the tackle is made by Willie Holman.
It will be a first down for Detroit on the 33 yard line.
Still in Detroit territory.
11th first down for Detroit in this ballgame today.
First and 10.
Wide to the right now is Walton.
McCullers put out to the left.
Waiting for it is Red Landry, first and 10 from the Lions.
33.
Taylor's in motion to the left.
Landry is back to throw, stays in the pocket and throws.
It's completed McCullers to 50.
McCullers to the 45 and is out of bounds on the 44 yard line.
First down for the Bullockers, the man who knocked him out of bounds.
Jeter was also in on the tackle, the ball on the 44 yard line of Chicago.
Detroit's ball first and 10.
McCullers is not too very big.
Instead of taking the easy way out over there along the sidelines and
running out of bounds, put his head down into those two defenders there
and picked up an extra yard as a result of the effort.
24 yards on the play.
Walton to the right, McCullers to the left.
First and 10 from the Bear, 44 yard line.
Detroit trailing 21 to 20.
Landry back to throw again.
Stays in the pocket and throws one deep, deep and it is complete.
Into the end zone and I'm not so sure he didn't just throw that one away Bob.
If Walton was held up down there around the 25 yard line he would have been
the intended receiver until Landry just threw it away.
1243 to go in the third quarter.
The Lions are trailing 21 to 20.
Green Bay is at Los Angeles today.
Final score, Philadelphia beat New York.
This is the last home appearance of the Lions for a couple of games.
As I mentioned we've played the Green Bay Packers a week from Monday and then
it's on to Denver for a game with the Broncos for coming home to play the Rams.
Walton to McCullers both on the right side, a double ring,
split to the left of Sanders and back goes Landry again.
He's dumped one out here in the right flat, it's completed.
We're 40, no 4.
Miller cuts back to the 36 yard line with it.
He's not very close down there to picking up that first down.
Butchers and Charlie Ford made the tackle for Chicago.
Let's see where they mark it.
It'll be around the 35 yard line and that's where it is
and it'll be third down of the yard to go for Detroit.
I think that's the first time that Butchers has got a hand on how he's
played here today.
They had a little by play if you recall a few fans last year in Chicago
when Butchers not only ran him out of bounds but practically up in his stand.
Greg Cotniss in there, two tight ends.
Flanagan at center, Gallagher and Walton to the guard.
Jarrow and Coyote at the tackle.
Walton is the only flank that's set out just a few yards outside.
Craig Cotniss on the right side.
Greg Landry, third and one and he's back to throw on third and one.
He throws it out here to hold it, 30 out of bounds.
On the 26, 24 yard line,
Goldbacher knocking out of bounds on the 24.
He toss them up with a third to one.
Good call.
Good fake and then go back and step or two and hit Taylor over there beautifully.
First down on the Bear, 24 yard line.
First key, first down for Detroit.
That's just calling those defensive signals.
Boy, they have really been stunning at moving around on defense and changing
it up from a zone to man and man and they've really been moving around.
The Bears.
Walton wide to the right.
The colors on the left side.
Landry to Owens.
Owens to the 20.
Owens to the 15 yard line with it.
Stevens just whipping through that left tackle spot and on down to the 15.
Butkus made the tackle along with Jeter.
Butkus is a lovely player.
I've been watching him.
Flanagan's doing a good job on him.
They're doing well.
Second and one.
Steve Owens is having himself another great day.
He's scored the ball 13 times and gained 69 yards.
That has 100 yards rushing today.
High formation, two-pointed.
Owens.
12 and a flag.
Limitary indication will be holding.
Oh my, that's right.
15 yards.
In the very first quarter, in the opening moments of the ball game, the Lions have driven down there deep.
Have the ball inside the five and a holding penalty set them back and the Lions have to settle with that 28 yard field goal.
And here's another fine drive.
There's six penalty for 56 yards that has put a crimp in this one, moving the ball to 29.
So the down will remain second.
But it will be now 15 for the first down.
And that just drives the coaches berserk.
Second down with about 14 yards to go for Detroit.
Wide to the left side is McCullough.
The right side is Walton.
So Greg needs to hit one now to pick up that yardage he just lost.
That's a post-up.
He's going back to throw, staying in the pocket, looks downfield, and his arm was hit as he threw it.
That knocked his aim right off.
Sanders was the intended receiver.
And in there was George Seals, the big tackle.
And his aim was off.
So that makes it third down.
Chicago leading 21 to 20.
We've got 10 minutes and 54 seconds of playing time remaining in the third quarter at Tiger Stadium.
Hodgson is coming in.
No question also, Van, is when the Bears go on the offense, that the Lions have got to start putting some pressure on Douglas.
They have not done so here in the ball game so far.
He's had all kinds of time to throw, and you simply got to get to that quarterback.
You either force him out of the pocket, force him to throw quicker than he wants to, or you're in trouble.
Landry is four out of seven on third down situations.
He's got one right now with Taylor in motion to the right.
And he's going back to throw, rolls out to the left.
He looks, he's going around, he's down to 25, he's down to 21, 22, and he's all down there by Willie Holman.
On the 22-yard line, Landry is seven out of 12 and passing for 117 yards, and in comes Errol Mann.
The receiver is pretty well covered, so Greg did about all he could do, and that's good with it.
He moved the ball well down to the 21-yard line, which will make it fourth down and seventh.
And Rasmussen is kneeling on the 29-yard line, and so it will be a 29-10.
28-49, and now 29-10.
Mann has kicked through today, 28 yards and 49 yards.
He's kicking against the wind here.
Kick is up.
Yeah!
29-yard field goal, the Lions lead by a score of 23-21.
The clock stopped on the field, Detroit 23, Chicago 21.
Whenever we're up and turning deep for Chicago, Scott Patrick along with Bob Reynolds and Tiger Stadium, the Lions lead 23-21.
The move by Mann, good high and overhand kick, Turner on the one.
Back to the five, 10, 15, down down.
And word on the play with Nicky Zasco.
Nicky gets up there a little groggy, but he made the tackle.
Mann has just tied Jim Martin's career field goal for the Lions, 56 field goals.
Now we'll see whether that Lions front defensive unit can put some pressure on W, because they must do so.
We'll get to start getting to it.
Rush and Bell and Rob are in the air for Detroit.
Luchy right in the middle, and the good now is through the running back, Rob Oskine, who's down from the 17.
All of the noise you're hearing at Tiger Stadium, the fans are cheering the defensive unit on right now.
Thomas is in, Wallace is out, second down and nine, ball on the 17-yard line.
Bobby Bell is in there, defensively at that tackle, Joe Rob is in there, Larry Hans, Larry Rush.
Joe's set. There's Douglas on the pitch out now to shy, and shy as he reaches the 22-yard line by Paul Newball.
And Al Park over there for the Lions on the 20-yard line.
They'll mark it 840 to go here in the third quarter. The Lions are leading 23 to 21.
Final score, Philadelphia 23, New York 7, and the Eagles have won their first game of the season.
Ball on the 23-yard line of Chicago, and it's third down and about three to go.
The crowd still yelling for the defensive unit to go to work.
Wide to the left is Gordon.
Farmer's flip to the right side, and Bobby Douglas calling the signal.
Long-chain's comp gives it off the side. He's comped with the 24.
He didn't make the first down.
So the defensive unit is heightened up here in the third quarter.
San Francisco is leading St. Louis 13 to 7.
They're all bringing up a fourth down.
Mike Lucci is getting up a little wobbly right now, I want to tell you.
He's playing with injuries. Paul Newball is helping him off.
Mike was shaken up over there.
Mike Lucci going over the bench there with Dr. Geis and Dr. Thompson.
And dropping back now, Larry Walton along with Chuck Hughes and Bobby Joe Green is going to do the kicking for Chicago.
The ball's on the 25 and a fourth down and two.
Seven-25 to play. Lions lead by two.
And here's the kick by Green, a high spiral, and it's going to bounce here on about the 45,
and the Bears will let it go, and it bounce all the way upfield in the 43-yard line.
So the Lions will have great field position.
That was a kick of 34 yards on the part of Bobby Joe Green.
We're watching Lucci over there.
Lions could ill afford to lose that boy.
He's walking around. He should be all right.
At least he's ambledore right now.
There's a timeout on the field with a score.
Detroit 23, Chicago 21.
Three passes to Taylor in the late flat.
The phone makes the tackle.
They'll mark the ball on the 46-yard line.
Five yards gained on the play.
Second down and five to go.
They're working on Mike Lucci's ankle.
So they're going to have a second and five for Detroit from their own 46-yard line.
Good field position.
Larry Walton stood out to the left side.
Plank the right is Earl McCullough.
Taylor has carried four times for 38 yards.
Caught four of it for 38 yards.
Waiting for it now is Greg Landry.
And motion goes Taylor.
And the oh, that time, Olfons ran over the quarterback, Greg Landry,
and shook him up a little.
That's the hardest Landry's been hit all day.
Out of the hand, Steve just ran right over.
Now here's that key third down situation again.
Landry was four out of seven of them in the first half in picking them up.
And he'll have another opportunity here.
It'll be a big one on the 45-yard line.
Six minutes of playing time remaining in the third quarter.
The Lions lead it 23-21.
Well, Pittsburgh has gone ahead of Houston 23-16.
Walton to the right, McCullough to the left.
Landry will probably put it in the air here with his third and five.
And back he goes to throw.
He looks he's in trouble back there.
He's going to be brought down back on the 40-yard line.
He just couldn't get rid of it.
The Bears had the fast rush on.
And he was brought down by Ed O'Gradovich.
And so that'll bring Herman Weaver in for his second pick of the day.
And Ron Smith is going back along the turner for Chicago.
That's been the difference in the ballgame defensively between both clubs.
The Lions have had the rush on them all day.
They've been able to contain the Chicago Bear running attack fairly well.
But they have not been able to put any pressure whatsoever on Douglas.
On the other side of the coin, that Bear front four has done a good job.
Thompson is in there at center for the Detroit Lions.
Herman Weaver back in pick formation.
Perfect pass from center.
Weaver gets it away.
Booms it high.
Coming down to Ron Smith.
And Smith takes it at the 15 going wide.
Being chased by Jesse.
And he's thrown down by Jesse.
Whoo, what a throw down.
Ron Jesse just gave him a swing.
The ball will be down on the 15 or 16, a 45-yard kick on the 16-yard line.
That at that time hadn't have been there.
That Bear receiver would have been down there by the go-go super-franc tonight.
Hirston from Chicago from the 16-yard line.
And the crowd starts to yell for the defensive unit again.
Bears have no trouble hearing the statement.
Jordan wide to the left, Farmer to the right, and the throw set.
Robowski is back there with Don Shy.
And Douglas back to throw.
What a throw that he has caught.
On the 20-yard line, the tackle is made on George Farmer.
Tackle made by Al Clark.
On the 20, so he got four on the play.
It'll be second down in six-five minutes to play in the third quarter.
Detroit leading 23 to 21.
Miami leading the Jets now 30 to 14.
No report on Washington and Kansas City yet.
Buffalo lost to San Diego.
Farmer's caught five passes today for 83 yards.
Throw set again.
New ball moving out, spinning a little bit.
Waiting for it is Douglas, second down.
And he gives it off to Shy.
And Shy running up the middle.
Backed up on about the 23-yard line, but the middle of that line.
Paul Newboff and Wayne Walker on the tackle.
Larry Hand.
Now Wallace is coming back in at the tight end.
Thomas goes out.
Change for the Bears.
Reports end the goal in the third quarter.
Shy and 15 carries.
They've gained 91 yards.
He's got a good day.
Farmer to the left side.
Jordan to the right side.
Shy and Grabowski.
They haven't utilized Grabowski very much today other than the blocker.
Douglas going back.
And he's rolling out to the left.
He's going to run with a football.
He's got a first down at the 31.
Wayne Walker made the tackle long with Mike Lucey who's back in there.
Got a first down.
And once again that Lyon defense commuted not getting to Douglas.
And he picks up the first down through the 31.
That's number 12 in the way of first down for the Bears.
320 to go in the third quarter.
Now Jerry Rush and Bob Bell are the tackle for the short.
Larry Hand and Joe Robb are the defensive ends.
Bobby Douglas now with two bankers against.
Go set.
He waits.
He takes it.
Back to those who swing fast out of the right side.
It's too important but the tackle is made immediately by LeBau on the 36 to 5 yard game.
So it's second and five.
Windsor still leading Cleveland 27 and nothing.
Jim Dooley with his tight end standing in the play as to the young quarterback.
Douglas almost after every series of downs.
Bears come out of it with a second down and five situation from their own 36 yard line.
Gordon is split to the right.
And he is the only banker.
Two ends are in play.
Eye formation top of the eye shy and tries to take the fake and Douglas back to go.
He's got a great time and goes one deep and look out.
Well there's a break for the Lions and again Douglas having time to throw.
Threw it out there beautifully.
But Gordon they ruled caught it out of bounds.
And so there's a break for the Lions brings it back to the 36.
And brings up a third down and five to go.
It's four out of eight on his third down.
That off engine line.
Well let's say you put a high school point about that if he's got all day he could roll.
All on the 35 yard line where it'll be third down and five to go for the Chicago Bears.
And they send Gordon out wide to the right side to the left side.
And Gordon is to the left.
Third down.
Big play coming up for Bobby Douglas.
Douglas takes it goes back to throw again.
He looks he throws one deep and the ball goes back there covering this man Gordon.
And it doesn't complete.
Put a little pressure on him that time Bobby.
That's about one of the few times that they had and Douglas let it go over the head of his intended receiver.
So first that will bring up a fourth down now and bring in the punter with two oh five showing on the clock here in the third quarter.
And the Lions leading at twenty three to twenty one.
Next week we'll hope you'll join us on the Lion Network for the broadcast a week from the one on our at Milwaukee when the Lions take on the Green Bay Packers another of the interconference clashes with Danny Devine's club.
Then the Lions after that one who traveled to Denver to take on the Broncos before returning home to play the Los Angeles Rams.
Bobby Joe Green is the kicker and he was as deep of Walton for Detroit and here's the pass and center and the kick and the high wobbly kick.
We often take it on the third and is it immediately.
That's all made right on the third.
That was almost a good place to catch one thirty four yards on the kick and the man that hit him was shaken up on the play more than Walton.
And that was Brady.
So.
There's a timeout the Broncos stopped on the field with a score of twenty three Chicago twenty one.
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First and then for Detroit from their own thirty and Landry on their gift and failure.
He's going wide at the block right in the corner and he's finally forced out of bounds losing yardage.
Forced out of bounds over there on the twenty five yard line and making the tackle a red over out of it.
Smith also in on the tackle for Chicago back on the twenty seventh so he lost three.
Meryl Manistick three field goals twenty eight forty nine twenty nine yards so far.
The Lions lead the Bears twenty three to twenty one.
Pittsburgh leading Houston now twenty three to sixteen.
McCullough in eight carries twenty three yards.
Walked wide to the right side McCullough deployed to the left with Owens and Taylor the setbacks for Detroit.
Landry back to throw staying in the pocket.
Flag is down it's completed the Sanders and Sanders is finally knocked out of the thirty seven but a flag is down.
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Back here the penalty after the flag against Detroit another holding penalty.
That nullifies the past completion of Charlie Sanders who took a good shot at the end of it from Dick Butchers.
They've been proud to take notice for a moment at the seventh penalty against Detroit for seventy one yards and that's them back in the hole again inside their own fifteen at the fourteen yard line.
It's a long way down to pull them out of the spot.
They're back on the thirteen yard line.
And Landry is back to throw staying in the pocket. He lets me throw and it is incomplete and almost intercepted by Chicago's Charlie Ford.
It's better for Walter and almost intercepted.
A lot of it was putting the pressure on Greg Landry.
Final score Pittsburgh twenty three Houston sixteen final score Miami thirty New York yet fourteen final score Denver twenty seven Cleveland nothing.
We're going to have a barbecue on these and go out of business quickly.
On the thirteen yard line third down twenty six yards to go.
Atlanta beat New Orleans twenty eight to six.
And then to the right side of Sanders put out a little back is one of the little trouble out there.
But he's going to be pulled down the line of scum by field.
Well, then you can't say it out of course about the job that that defensive unit of the Bears is turning in here today.
They have that pressure on Landry all day today.
In contrast, the Lions have simply not been able to get the Douglas except on maybe one or two occasions. And as a result, Douglas has had good protection back there and been able to complete his passes.
And on the other hand, Landry, of course, without that protection is in all kinds of trouble.
A minute and twenty five remaining fourth down long yardage twenty six and we will have to boot it out of there.
The other thing along with Turner, Turner is a short man and we were in the end zone.
So he's got to get the foot in it again. Now, I'm moving out of there.
Otherwise, the Bears are going to come up with great field position.
Good pass from center. He fumbles the ball.
The drop and the Bears were going to cut down, but a flag is down.
The man who came up with it, we were dropped the pass from center.
There's a great break.
Landry fumbled the pass from center and dropped it.
The kick was blocked.
The Bears picked it up, took it in for a touchdown, but a holding penalty against Chicago will nullify that one.
The Bears are going to fall up to the 18 yard line and it's an automatic first down for Detroit.
And that's got to be probably then the biggest break of the entire ballgame for Detroit.
And it's the sixth suddenly against the Bears for 71 yards.
The Lions have had seven for 71.
Could be the biggest break of the season.
The Bears were holding at 14. We were dropped the pass from center, which is a good pass.
And then it was blocked by the Bears.
Drew Biker picked it up and went into the end zone with a holding penalty against Chicago.
And Dooley's a little upset over there.
Look at Ed Gibbons, he's a little upset too.
The Lions have the football first and 10 on their own 18 yard line.
The microphone down there along the sidelines right now, man, with Ed Gibbons and Jim Dooley and the rest of the Bear coaching staff.
Probably giving it to that official pretty good.
He better get out on the field as they attend it.
Two flaggers, Walton to the right side, McCulloch to the left side.
Lions lead it 23 to 21, a minute to go in the third quarter.
Taylor's in motion. Owens is hit by a field, thrown down at the 15.
He took the handoff and couldn't go anywhere.
And Bear defense is really fighting up on the offensive line.
They're doing a great job for Dutchess.
The Lions have the ball on the 16.
Now they have second down and 12, 40 seconds to play in the third quarter.
Ready to go now with Walton wide to the right, McCulloch to the left.
Dropping off that secondary now, loosening them up a bit.
That goes Landry to throw. He throws and it is in complete.
It was a good play by Puckett.
But to strip the ball out of the hands of Larry Walton.
Third down to Troy.
Puckett's incidentally leads the Chicago Bears in interception.
He has had four on the unseason so far.
Not very much yardage after the interception,
but he's been in position to pick off four of them for nine yards.
He's all over that place.
Ball back on the 16, it's third and 12 to go for Detroit.
The Bears right now have three men up front.
They've got everybody else dropping back.
Look at this. They've got a three-man line up there.
Now they move a couple up.
Ryan Early, three rushes, waiting for it.
It's Greg Landry with a third and 12.
He's going back to throw.
Baves in the pocket and throws one and it is intercepted by Chicago.
Intercepted by...
Yeah, a gun and he has finally knocked down on the 21-yard line.
He's going to intercept the ball.
Here we go. There's the gun.
That's the end of the third quarter.
Detroit 23, Chicago 21.
Rob Reynolds along with Dan Patrick from Tiger Stadium up Linger going here.
23-21, the Lions hanging on now with 15 minutes more to play in this ballgame.
The Bears with a fine field position at the Lions 31 after the interception,
as Douglas calls his club back in.
Lions in their defensive huddle inside the 30.
And the rush of the first line of the Bears doing a great job.
And in contrast, the Lions offensive line having difficulty.
Douglas is 11 out of 15 for 121 yards, so he's been having a good day.
They came up the line of service once back again.
We have 15 minutes now to go.
We're in the final quarter here at Tiger Stadium with a two-point lead
and the Bears right down on the 31-yard line.
What was it that Brickhouse said, the final option for the Chicago Bears
about Douglas, he said that he has a great day here today.
One thing he's sure he'll be playing on is out in the game.
That'll be the first of us for the break.
Wide to the right now goes Gorse.
He's the only friend.
Farmer's in tight. Douglas waits.
Douglas gives it off the shy.
He's coming wide trying to turn that corner.
Cutscene is bumped on the 27-yard line.
He was hit by Al Farr.
Bobby Mitchell is not in there, and whether Jim Mitchell is not in there
for the Lions, and he's been outed, we've checked him on the bench over there.
He's all right.
But he has not been playing.
And Ball is in there, and a tackle in place of Easey.
And the ball's on the 27-yard line now.
That second down coming up stands about six and a half.
Farmer to the right side, the I-formation.
Jordan going to the left side.
Second down, one of the pros, Douglas.
False timeout.
They got bust up somewhere in that backfield.
Douglas wasn't sure of the play and very smartly called the time to go over to the bench now
to talk to Doolin and straighten it out.
He wants to make very sure with the fine field position that he has that he doesn't make any mistakes.
And conversely, Mike Lucey goes over to talk to defensive coordinator Jimmy David over there
to see that he's got what he wants to do defensively, straighten their out.
And second down, but the ball where it is, neither team, of course, wants to make a mistake.
All on the 27-yard line, second down, about six and a half to go for the Chicago Bears on the Detroit 27.
Bobby Douglas, 11 out of 16, 121 yards, running the ball club.
And out of it he comes.
Since Farmer wide to the left, Gordon is split to the right.
Grabowski and Shy are the running backs.
And Douglas starts out to dig.
And Douglas pitches it now.
Shy is going to throw the ball.
He's going to run with it now and he's caught from behind.
Bobby Bell caught it.
Mike Lucey was winning and he was going to throw the ball.
That was a play, Bob.
A half-back option of a pass on the end of it.
That's the first time we've seen it today, but I'm sure that the Lions had that in a playbook
and expected it somewhere along the course of the ball game.
At that time they came up with it and didn't make it go.
So it's third down and that key down situation again.
Third and about 12.
Wallace is in there now at the tight end, replacing Thomas.
And they put Farmer to the left, Gordon to the right.
Third and 12.
Douglas going back to throw.
Gave him the pocket, rolled back now, looking down for him.
He throws and it's caught at the 18-yard line.
The tight end caught the ball.
Tight end Wallace.
Lucey in on the tackle, but it's the first down for the Bears and Douglas really came up with a big play, didn't he?
And they again, the Lions, if they're not able to get to him,
he rolled out there, had some good running room, but wisely stopped,
picked out a receiver and let it fly for the big first down.
So it's at the 18 now.
First and 10 for the Bears who trail but fight two.
That's 13 first downs with 12.50 to play in the ball game.
Farmer to the right, to the left is Gordon.
Douglas gives the shy.
Shy is gang tackle, but he's a hard running back.
He's at the 15, driving the 100-yard margin.
95 yards he has gained today.
So it'll be second down coming up now with the ball on the 15-yard line,
second down and seven.
And the clock is moving with 12.20 to play.
The Dallas still leading New England 34 to seven.
Gordon is wide to the right side, split off to the left is Farmer.
Waiting for it is Bobby Douglas, second down,
and Douglas going back to throw, stays in the pocket.
Runs out of it again, a flag is down.
He throws his cup, but a flag is down on the 11-yard line.
Mike Weaver made the tackle on the receiver down shy, but a flag went down.
Looks like it's against the Lions, Van, another one.
And that one will hurt.
There's discussion going on about it.
We had two calls down there.
They offset them.
Here comes the referee.
Holding against Detroit, backfield in motion against Chicago.
They nullify each other.
And the point is up to 11, or up to 16, whether it's second down and eight.
Second and eight.
Down shy was on the receiving end of that pass,
and now Thomas is coming back in in place of Waller.
Second down for the Chicago Bears, and the clock's still moving, 11.54.
Out of the huddle they come, with Gordon to the right side
and Gordon to the left side, now it's Farmer.
George Farmer, UCLA.
Douglas, back, throws one, completed the Farmer.
Farmer's at the five and out of bounds on the four and three.
Oh, he was wide open over there on that sideline pattern.
Van and LeBeau ran him out of bounds, but not before they got a first down.
Around the neighborhood of the two-yard line, they got a mark, he went out of three.
He was placed down on the three.
First and goal to go, Chicago.
You know, it would almost be better to let him score right here
so he could have more time on the clock, wouldn't it?
He's just fine.
Wallace is back in.
Farmer's caught six passes today for 96 yards.
They've been cheating a little on Gort to lead the league,
and in place of them, Farmer's been touching the ball.
He's been open.
He's been double-teaming Gordon some.
Tight formation, waiting for it to judge him.
Shy, at the goal line, Luchi shoved him back.
I don't believe he got over.
Luchi and Company, topping him on about the one.
Detroit leading 23 to 21, but that lead is in jeopardy right now,
with the Bears right down there, inside the one-yard line.
Jim Mitchell is coming back in.
Evie is back in.
Move off and Walker's off.
Ball on the one.
Now they're out of the huddle.
About to see him shy, right back to the quarterback.
One flanker going to the right.
And a back move.
One of the backs move, and let's see what happens.
The backs move, the bar goes down,
so the Lions made contact with him.
So let's see what the officials are going to do about it.
Well, the movement on the part of the Chicago running back was first.
He then stopped, and then the Lions moved through and made contact.
So the question becomes here, in as much as the Bears back,
that's back and set without moving,
but the penalty is against Detroit.
It is.
However, the penalty only goes about six inches,
because that's about all that they have to move at half the distance to the goal,
about a foot away.
And that didn't make that much difference.
They can't get it in from six inches back from where it is now.
They're not going to get it in.
That just brings them out of it.
The fans are booing, but the call was right.
Redwood from the streets over touchdown, Chicago.
Redwood ducked it over on the quarterback's feet.
The call was a good one.
31 yards and 7 plays after the fast interception.
The Bears lead it 27 to 23.
The back will move, the back will stop.
And so the Lions then moved across to make contact,
and that was offside to Detroit, illegal procedure.
Now Percival will attempt to make it 28-23.
That puts the Lions out of field goal range.
They're going to go for the big one.
San Francisco still leading St. Louis 13 to 7.
Bobby Douglas, who got scored, will hold,
and Percival will attempt to get to the point.
31-7, and here's the kick.
The depth is good.
The clock is stopped on the field with a score of Chicago 28 and Detroit 23.
10-56 to go in the ball game, and the Bears now in front 28-23.
Percival sets it up on the 40.
Jesse back there along with Al Clark, and this crowd settles down,
realizing the Lions in trouble here.
Here's the booth now by Percival, good high and overhand kick.
Jesse's going back for it in the end zone, and he's left not to run it out.
And that's why, because the Bears have good coverage on that one,
they'll bring it out to 20 where it'll be first down at 10 to go for Detroit.
The Lions at 10-15, they fail by 28-23.
St. Louis still trailing San Francisco 13 to 7, and Dallas leading New England 34-7.
The other games are over that we have been passing along.
Los Angeles leads Green Bay 7-0 in the first quarter,
stepping on Washington and Kansas City.
Two flankers to the right side.
Chuck Hughes is in there now and stood out to the right.
And Landry on again to Owen.
Going up the middle, comes one up to the 29-yard line with it on the first right up the middle.
The tackle was made by Lyle, Gary Lyle.
Owen's got nine yards. It'll be second down and one.
Fourth quarter now, San Francisco leads St. Louis 16 to 7.
To the right is Chuck Hughes, to the left is McCullough.
So Walton is out of there.
Taylor and Owens are set back.
Landry looking over that defense, and Landry gives it to Owen.
Owen gets the first down, moving to the 33 up the middle, and feels like the tackle for Chicago.
So they have a first down. They have it on the 33-yard line,
but the Lions are trailing 28 to 23 and that's 15 first down.
The Rams and Tommy Perlbrough are improving all the time.
They're leading Green Bay 7 to nothing.
One week from tomorrow night, the Lions will meet Green Bay and County Stadium in Milwaukee.
Hughes flanked out to the right side, McCullough's on the right side,
and Sanders defluxed to the left at the double-wing formation.
The running back is Alfie Taylor.
Landry gives it to Taylor.
Taylor turns the corner, and he's going to be knocked out of bounds at the 33-yard line.
Steele's chasing him out over there along with Buckeye.
And a defense is back coming up, and that was Jeter.
So they'll march that ball on the 33-yard line, no gain on the play.
And the clock, and that's important now, is 9.29, and Crippa's coming in for Detroit.
And going out is Steve Owens.
Owens and 16 carries today have gained 80 yards.
Now Hughes and McCullough are both on the right side, and Sanders has wired to the left.
In the flop, the left is Crippa.
There's a double-wing second down and 10 yards to go from the 33-yard line of Detroit.
And Greg Landry goes back to the floor, staying in the pocket, throws one to Crippa, over to him.
He had him open down the middle, Bob.
And he was getting some pressure there, too, from Willie Holman, the defensive end,
four-year man from South Carolina State.
And Holman hit him about a second or so after Landry let it go.
I don't think he could see very well on the play.
He's always a big guy, and he just overthrew it.
Now it's third down and perhaps the biggest third down that Landry will face here this afternoon with 9.24 to go.
He's 8 out of 17 with one interception for 116 yards, and he needs a long one here.
He's 5 out of 10 on the third down situation, batting 500.
Both set, Owens is back in.
Crippa's up there and they've brought that play in.
Landry going back to the floor, staying in that pocket again.
He's going to be brought down way back on the 21-yard line.
That fast coverage out there for him is just gulp down.
Willie Holman brought him down on the 21-yard line.
Now that's the difference here as the things turned around a little bit, Van,
as you had been pointing out all during the ballgame that the pressure has been on from that fair defense.
And if you don't have the time to throw, there isn't much you can do about it.
You're just getting the lines.
You're just getting beat at the line, in the pit, as they say, where the battles are won and lost.
And right now, Weaver needs a good foot, or the Bears again will have fine field position with 9.7 to go
and interception of the football.
Grip is deep for Chicago.
Herman Weaver's waiting on the 5.
Almost blocked, but he's got a beautiful kick away.
Ooh, look at this, all the way to the 23-yard line, Grip going wide.
Trying to get some running room.
He's finally brought down by Mickey Zopto, and a flag is down.
Clipping on the play.
56 yards on that kick by Herman Weaver when he needed it.
56 yards.
There'll be a clip.
He'll walk off against the Bears.
Got to move him back into a little trouble with 8.42 to go.
All the way back to the 14-yard line.
That's the seventh penalty, 86 yards.
15 all together between these two clubs here today.
We're getting a timeout.
12 o'clock is stepped on the field, and the score, the Bears 28, the Lions 23.
Ball on the 14-yard line of Chicago, first and 10 for the Bears.
Farmer to the right side, Gordon to the left side.
Chai and Grobowski are the running backs for Chicago, and Bobby Douglas gives it to Chai.
Chai's hit it for 15, no game, no anybody got a yard.
Paul Newboff made the tackle.
Joe Laff was also in there.
Bobby Bell is in there for Detroit.
He's been playing most of his last half.
And now Cyril Fender is coming into the backfield for Chicago and lepping off a little of Chai.
Took a little skip there, but I guess he's all right.
He's a great backhand.
What do you know?
They came up with a big win yesterday, not got Purdue.
And then James was upset, huh?
I thought you mentioned that.
28 to 14.
Michigan with another big win today.
Farmer and Gordon are split.
Waiting now is Bobby Douglas.
Got second in line, and back he goes to grow.
He's doing well, doctor.
And he grows it quickly.
That's a 15-yard line, did you believe that?
The Packers stayed on the 20.
They had him finally cross back on about the 3-yard line.
Unbelievable.
That was really about the third time all afternoon that the Lions had some pressure on Douglas.
He got away from it, however, they had him way back there at the 3-yard line.
Finally found the receiver, Fender, and got the ball to him up on the 20.
And now it is third down and about four to go for the first down here with the class running and showing 7-21.
And Douglas is a strong kid.
Third down, about four from the 20.
Big play right here.
Seven minutes to go.
Fender, a double-wing formation now.
Bobby Douglas, with Gordon set out the right side, he's going back to grow.
He grows one, it's complete.
First down, Chicago.
Completed to Gordon in the right flat.
Weger made the tackle with first.
And he came up with a big, big play right there, getting a first down.
And so that's 16 first down for the Chicago Bears.
Fender is on the 28-yard line.
Six minutes, 30 seconds to play.
That's all the Lions need to get their hands on the football.
They're trailing 28 to 23, and the field goal will do no good.
Five points down.
Any question about it when they start discussing key plays in this ball game, it will be Douglas is wiggling out of that one,
completing the fast defender and then throwing the short one out in the flat for the first down.
High formation to give as the Fender.
Fender's hit right up the 30-yard line.
He got a couple of yards.
Fox continues to move, and it's important now.
Lucci made the tackle for Detroit, along with Larry Han.
Bob, I want to thank Jerry Brusser, who was kind enough to come down to South Bend and pick us up last night
and get us back here in time for a big ceremonial lay-up for a good friend of yours and mine,
so the pro golfer at the Dearborn Country Club.
Ball on the 30-yard line.
Second down, eight yards to go for the Bears, 5.40 to play.
Bears lead 28-23.
Jordan to the right side.
Here's Douglas.
Back to throw.
He's in a little trouble.
He looks and he throws.
They finally get to it, back on the 24-yard line.
First time.
Are you almost public?
That's the first time that the Lions have been able to get to Douglas all day.
If you don't count the one three or four plays ago when they had him hemmed in down there,
that he got out of it.
That time he got hit from the blind side, nearly dropped the ball, fell around to it.
However, the Lions finally got to it.
That's the 24, so it brings up that big third down play again with five minutes and 24 seconds in the clock running.
This is a big play right here, I'll tell you.
Well, the Bears are talking over the huddle.
One of the biggest plays they'll call all day right here.
Jordan to the right side.
Farmer to the left side.
Bobby Douglas in an eye formation.
And he's going to run it from the eye, or call the play, and he pitches it out here to Fender who goes wide.
Fender's caught at the 26-yard line.
And all down there, making the tackle with Mike Lucey, and he can hardly get up,
and what a ballgame he has played.
He's playing with injuries.
Looks like he might have that shoulder bruised again.
Ball on the 26-yard line is four down and 12 yards to go.
And Chuck Hughes and Al Parker back there for the score.
Now the clock with four minutes and 30 seconds in movement.
And the Bears lead it 28 to 23.
So if you're driving your automobile, drive carefully right now.
Hang on.
That's right.
Pass them center to green.
He gets a short kick, but he comes around the 45 and gets a good bounce for him, though.
He got a short kick, but if you look at the bounce he gets, a tremendous bounce all the way down to the 25-yard line.
A wobbling, swift type of kick, and he's got 49 yards out of it.
That's your drop shot to get a good roll in your L.O., is it?
And what happens on that artificial turf, too, Van, is when you hit a line drive front,
maybe about 20 yards and then you just boom right out of there.
For Christopher, 16, St. Louis, 14 now on the fourth quarter.
While we have the opportunity here, let's let the stations around the network identify themselves.
Fifteen seconds for station identification.
This is the Detroit Lions football network.
Landry is 8 out of 17 for 104 yards, and he's got it what cut out now.
He's 75 yards away.
The 25-yard line, four minutes and nine seconds to play.
Hughes is in there and flank to the left, McCullough to the right.
Greg Landry going back to throw, stays in the pocket, throws one, two,
hole into the 30, and he's tackled in a hard, jarring tackle by Smith.
Long Smith, ball to the right of the 30-yard line.
The clock is still running, and that clock is a big factor now, 28 to 23.
McCullough has gone deep.
He's just now getting back to the huddle with second and five for Detroit from their own 30.
And now Hughes goes to the right, McCullough to the left.
Greg Landry looking over that defense.
Buccus and Bappone, those linebackers, jammed in there, waiting for it.
It's Landry going back again to throw.
He's in a little trouble.
He throws, and it is incomplete.
He hits Charlie Sanders, and Buccus was right there with him,
but it's a glancing pass and a bounce right away from him.
And so that will make it third down and five yards to go for the Detroit Lions
with three minutes and 24 seconds of playing time remaining.
And the Bears are leading it 28 to 23.
Eddie O'Grado is breathing right down the throat of Landry that time.
At the last second, he's prodded Sanders.
Buccus is covering on the play, and it goes incomplete.
San Francisco leads St. Louis 23 to 14.
Landry with three pointers, going back to throw again.
He throws one deep for McCullough.
The footbreak is on, and it is very deceptive by the Chicago Bears.
Intercepted at the 32-yard line by the Bears in terms of the color.
So the Bears now have a great shot at them.
I'm trying to get that number.
It's covered with mud.
29, Jeter is the man who intercepted the pass.
Second interception, and the Bears are in business now, Bob.
I'm just thinking about Jeter out there, and that's his first interception of the year.
Comes at a very opportune time, of course, for the Chicago Bears,
who now have three minutes and five seconds to kill here
with a ball at their own 31 and leading 28-23.
I wouldn't be surprised if he dug this with a little ball control now, for sure,
with 255 showing right now.
But he gives it off to Pender, and Pender runs out wide at the 40, the 45, the 50, the 45, the 40, the 35,
and he's finally out of bounds.
Down on the 32-yard line.
Finally got out of bounds on the 32-yard line, a 37-yard run.
They mark it on the 31 first down.
And the Bears are now in field goal position.
There's nothing else.
17, first down.
First and 10 from the 31-yard line.
Farmer to the right side, Gordon to the left side.
28-23, Chicago.
Bobby Douglas calling the signals.
Douglas on the give now to his running back, Pender, and he's dumped on the 32-yard line.
And Joe Roth made the tackle along with Paul Newmont.
So he lost the yard on the play.
It'll be second down and 11 yards to go.
Dallas leading 37-7.
We're coming up to the two-minute mark. It's 2-20 to go.
Wallace is in now, tight end, replacing Thomas.
The Lions are on the verge now of their second defeat of the season.
They're trailing five points here with two minutes and ten seconds play.
And the Bears left the football, which is the big item.
Farmer to the right, Gordon to the left. It's second down and 11.
Douglas taking a lot of time, and he gives it off now to Pender.
And Pender is up the nice 29-yard line.
And there's the two-minute warning.
So the clock is stopped on the field with the score of Chicago 28, Detroit 23.
Ready to go now with the ball on the 29-yard line.
It's third down and eight yards to go for the Chicago Bears with two minutes of playing time remaining.
Bears lead at 28-23.
Farmer to the right, to the left, Leather, and Gordon to the right.
Pender and Drabowski to setback.
Douglas with a third and eight.
Douglas rolling out to the right.
Let's roll to the end zone, and everyone is out of the lead to go.
Mark was beaten on the play, but the pass was overthrown.
Well, that means Percival now will get a chance to stack on three more here.
It would make it 31, and it would make it 31-23.
Which means then the Lions, even if they scored seven, will still be short.
Field goal here was just about put it out of reach.
And that's got to be the understatement.
Oakland is leading Cincinnati 3-0, and Washington leads Kansas 37-0.
The attempt will be made from the 36-yard line, an angle to the left of the hash mark.
The kicker is in the air.
It's not directed, but it looks like it's off the way, and it's no good.
The Lions have a shot.
It's no good, but the Lions have a shot at it now.
They have the ball on their own 20.
They have a minute and 46 seconds of playing time remaining.
Ready to go back a few years, man, and you say, here's the body-align situation.
Time running out, 80 yards away.
We'll see whether the Lions offensive line can hold them out of there to give Greg time to throw,
because that's what he needs.
He goes to the right, to the left, with McCullough, and Landry is going back to throw.
Stays in that pocket and throws one to Sanders.
He's got it up the 32-yard line, first down the court.
At the 32, first made the tackle.
A minute and 38 seconds of playing time remaining.
But you've got to remember this now.
That clock is a big, big factor with only a minute and 38, and Landry calling the time out.
The Lions have two timeouts remaining.
They've got to try to conserve as much of that time as they possibly can to try and pull it out here at Piper Stadium.
Not many of these fans are left on the 32-yard line, first down and then to go.
Landry needs to come up with his big play right now.
This is not a typical Chicago dismal ball game.
A rough, tough affair.
You take a physical beating every time you play those mad monsters from the midway in the Chicago Bears.
Right to the left side is Hughes, McCullough to the right.
Double wing formation, Landry is back to throw.
The rush is on. He throws the Hughes at the finish.
He's down to the 36-yard line.
And Jair Lyle made the tackle and Chuck Hughes pulled it in on the 37-yard line.
It's first down to court, and this stadium is in the bedlam.
The clock is moving. Landry asking for quiet.
And now the official timeout. That was a 31-yard game.
The officials call timeout because the Bears were taking their time getting up there.
Now Landry's going into it real quick.
Landry back to throw. Throws one out of bounds to stop the clock.
Now you've got to set up a play with one minute and 12 seconds.
Would you call this the cliffhanger?
Yeah, by a bird.
What arrows you ought to put to it.
The way it is seemingly at least every Sunday.
Now Ryan Loss here today with dropping them back into second place in that tight central division range with the Chicago Bears.
And we have some of that Minnesota Baltimore game tomorrow night.
And to reaffirm what we were talking about earlier, man, I definitely will be pulling some Baltimore.
Hughes wide to the right. The left side now is McCullough.
One minute and 12 seconds to go in the ballgame.
First down on the 37-yard line of Chicago.
And most of now goes Taylor.
Landry is going back to throw.
He looks, he throws the throw and there's got to.
Butkus has been hit.
Butkus was belted by Butkus just as he caught the football.
Now that makes the great Butkus play of course.
And there he is, the big man and the big shot.
In a very, very key play because I doubt that very much.
If it had been anybody else but Butkus, but what Sanders would have held onto that one.
But Butkus was right there where he belonged covering on the play.
And when Sanders caught the ball, he fell at him and knocked the ball loose from him.
So the clock now shows a minute and six.
And the Bears now are calling time out.
As Butkus goes over to the sideline to talk to Jim Dooley and Abe Gibran, who is his defensive coach.
Landry going over the sidelines along with Bill Triplett as Steve Owens comes into the lineup now.
And with a minute and six showing third down, 10 to go, the ball up the 37 yard line of the Chicago Bears.
The drama and the tension continues to build here in the closing moments of this one.
Now Bill Triplett is coming down.
So it might be they might try to play a while ago.
They almost got away with it.
They threw the Triplett down the middle when Landry's vision was shaken a little as he was hit just as he delivered the ball.
Butkus went over there to talk to Abe Gibran, the defensive coach.
And the ball is on the 37th, third down and 10 to go for Detroit.
That one and Landry over talking with Coach Smith along the sidelines.
And so the Lions have Triplett in there.
So let's see what they do.
They might try to.
What thing has he gone out? Taylor Owens went there so he went right back out again.
So now let's see what they do.
Gettin' them into a double win.
Waiting for it is Landry and he's going back to throw.
He goes to say Owens but oh his hands are thanded.
Right through standards here.
That's a little unusual.
A lion hurt down there at the 16 yard line.
He just collapsed and fell.
So we'll have to wait and see.
Sometimes that will stop the class for an injury.
And Dr. Guise comes in along with Dr. Thompson to have a look at him.
I wouldn't be surprised then either that if Charlie Sanders hadn't taken a pretty good knock on the previous play to that.
And he might have been still a little shaken up when Landry drilled that one to him because it just went right through his hands.
And his reaction just a slight but total blow of poor Charlie.
And you have to think that he probably got a good wrap when Buck just hit him before.
I can't see who the injured player is.
It's you, is there, Bob.
It's up to you.
You caught a big pass there a moment ago.
Drippert is in there now bringing it a play to Landry.
I didn't see what happened to you.
I just saw him fall and just sort of like he collapsed.
And he seems to be in a considerable amount of pain down there at the 16-yard line.
We've got a minute and two seconds left in this one here.
And they're treating Mr. Hughes pretty gingerly down there.
Landry goes over to talk to Monson along the sidelines.
With a minute and two seconds of playing time remaining in this ballgame,
it is Chicago 28 and Detroit 23.
The Millions have four and ten.
So this is it.
They're getting all righty right here.
Dallas leads New England now 37-7.
And San Francisco leading St. Louis 23-14.
Los Angeles leading Green Bay 7-0.
And Washington 7-7, Kansas City nothing in the first quarter.
And Oakland leading Cincinnati 3-0 in the first quarter.
Man, I don't like the looks of this injury down here at all.
It appears that Chuck is really hurt.
Well, we've got both trainers and both doctors out there.
They may go for the stretchers.
They haven't put it out yet.
They're in a hush crowd here at Tiger Stadium right now.
And they're still working on Hughes down around the 15-yard line.
As Bob mentioned, I didn't see what happened to him.
He just went down right on the 15 in the heat.
Well, it's just up to Dave Pittsburgh, 23, Houston 16.
That's the final now.
Miami 30, New York Jets 14, Denver beat Cleveland 27-0.
Final scores in Atlanta beat New Orleans 28-6.
Philadelphia won their first game, 23-7 over New York.
Man, there's no point, of course, to speculating on the injury,
but I think they're going to call the stretcher on some oxygen here.
It could be a neck injury.
I just don't like the look of it at all.
They're bringing the stretcher out now from the sideline.
They administered oxygen to him, and I think it's a neck injury.
I'm all more positive of it now.
I see Dr. Thompson and Dr. Guise assigned to get something back in shape there.
That doesn't look good at the moment, that's for sure.
You know, the funny thing about it, Bob, he caught that pass a moment ago,
and he might have been shaken up on that particular play,
and then Fred Snowden who's sitting here in our booth said that he was watching him,
and he said that he was downfield running the pass pattern,
then turned around and started back to the huddle as when he collapsed,
but he was nearly, so he might have been hit on the way prior to that.
They are administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Hughes,
and Dr. Guise is now pumping his chest.
We may have a real serious one down here.
I certainly hope not, but this young man is in serious trouble,
and they are going to rush him off of there.
When you have to restore to pumping the chest and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
you've got a serious injury.
Everybody here in the stadium, all 54,000, hushed over this injury to Hughes.
Now they are taking him off in a big hurry.
I just don't like the looks of it at all.
That's a shame.
That casts a fall, of course, on this entire stadium here.
We can only hope we'll get the word to you as soon as we find out
just exactly what it is.
We're back into the action with a minute and two seconds left to play.
And it's 4th down and 10 for Detroit with a minute and two
as Landry is going back to throw.
He looks, he throws deep out here, and this one is tipped in the air, incomplete,
and so the Bears will take over with a march down.
So that was the play of the center for Taylor,
and that was the big play right there.
The Lions need it.
And so the Bears leading by a score of 28 to 23 have the football
on their own 37-yard line.
They have it 4th down and 10 to go,
and all they've got to do now is run out the clock,
and they've had the Lions their second defeat of the season.
Bobby Douglas.
Now he'll try to run out that clock,
and he's only got 56 seconds to run it out.
Farmer has split out the right side.
Gordon is deploying to the left.
Douglas on the call.
I don't imagine he'll try to do much with it.
He just gives it off to Fender, who's tackled by Joel Robb,
and the Lions will utilize their timeouts now to stop the clock.
He lost a little yardage on that one,
but they're not concerned about that.
All they want to do is hold onto the ball and run out the clock.
I went back, man, into the front box,
and very concerned, Russ Thomas was making his way
hurriedly through the dressing room.
I asked him if he knew, and he just shook his head.
We don't know, even if it's Miles Smith,
obviously a very serious injury.
Let's hope the young man is all right.
You know, it almost had to be on the play of the players
when he caught the pass,
because nobody hit him out there when he was running the ball.
He seemed to collapse.
Gordon to the left side.
Douglas, get him back to me.
He's running that clock out,
and he moves into the 38-yard line,
and the Lions will utilize their timeout again to stop the clock.
Although the clock has stopped now,
they're evidently out of timeout,
although the board chose to, but they are out of time.
They are out of timeout.
So the Bears now will just kill as much of it as they can,
and they are going to take all the time they possibly can.
Twenty-five seconds, and the clock is moving.
The Lions are out of timeout.
Chicago will be four and two.
The Lions will be four and two.
Minnesota four and one, the conference,
depending upon the outcome of that game tomorrow night.
Well, there's the quarterback's feet again,
and time will run out now.
They'll never get another play on the left.
Clock is moving.
Three seconds, two seconds, one second,
and there is the gun.
And the final score, the Chicago Bears 28 to the Tribe Lions 23.
There's the game.