While the rest of America took a break from the hustle and bustle of life to celebrate Thanksgiving day with their family, relatives, and close friends, the Green Bay Packers were out at Fort Field clashing against the Detroit Lions.
And it’s safe to say it was all worth it, as they clinched another win and improved their record to 5-3. The highlight of the match went to none other than Packers safety Jonathan Owens.
In the first quarter, Owens recovered a fumble by quarterback Jared Goff and returned it 27 yards for a touchdown. This led the Packers to outgain the Lions 20-6 with 2:23 remaining on the clock.
Not one to miss a good moment, Simone Biles excitedly took to X (formerly Twitter) to fangirl over her husband, Owen.
She shared a video of Owen’s touchdown moment on her X profile.
THATS MY HUSBAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY MANS MY MANS MY MANSSSSS🥹🥹🥹🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 LFGGGGGGOOOOOOO! https://t.co/baxxoePhpB
Owens, on the other hand, said that the experience was surreal at first, noting that it was the first time being in the end zone since high school.
“Man, it was a great feeling.” Owens said after the game, via CNN.
Owens had a game-high 12 tackles, eight of which were solo, in addition to the tremendous scoop and touchdown. He led the Packers in tackles for the second straight game, as reported by JS Online.
Simone Biles is officially the most decorated gymnast in history, and owing to her countless accolades and titles, the 26-year-old is widely considered as the ‘Greatest of all time’ in gymnastics.
Outside of her sport, though, Biles is pretty determined to support her husband, Green Bay Packers’ Jonathan Owens. A few days after she participated at the World Gymnastics Championships, where she won her 34th medal and helped Team USA win with a score of 167.729, Biles wrote on her social media that ‘she was excited to ‘dress up for game days and watch her man.’
can’t wait to dress up for game days and watch my man
And true to her word, for the past few weeks, Biles has been sighted supporting Owens both on social media and out on the field.
Her most recent appearance at the Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs game at Lambeau Field attracted equal attention to that of Taylor Swift, who was also there to cheer on her man, Travis Kelce of the Chiefs.
Packers fan gives Biles a literal ‘GOAT’ hat
While roaming the field to greet the Packers fans, Biles pointed to a man in a stand who’s fully dressed up in a costume to support the team.
As Biles came closer to the fan, she was greeted in a cheerful tone by the fan who said, “Hi Simone! What a pleasure to meet you! You’re the greatest of all time. I had to make you something, okay?”
The fan then handed her a literal GOAT foam hat that had the words ‘BILES GOAT’ on either side of its sleeve and was holding gold medals. In Biles’ excitement, she immediately put on the hat on her head while smiling broadly towards the camera.
The fan, who wasn’t done handing out gifts, added that he couldn’t leave her husband out. He then handed Biles another foam hat, this one with a cartoon version of Owens, sporting his No. 34 on his shoulder and a nameplate on his helmet.
The moment was quickly shared on X, with many of the fans stating that the moment was beautiful.
It was truly a night to remember for Biles because, in addition to receiving a thoughtful present from a Packers fan, she also watched the Green Bay Packers win against the Kansas City Chiefs, 27-19.
By the end of the 2022 season, Rex Grossman and Aaron Rodgers will both have appeared in as many Super Bowls over their respective careers.
That’s due to the fact that the Green Bay Packers squandered their chance to secure a postseason spot by shocking the Detroit Lions 20-16 on Sunday at Lambeau Field. To transform a 4-8 season start into a five-game winning streak and postseason appearance, the Packers only needed to protect home-field advantage, but the Lions had other plans and played spoiler.
The Seattle Seahawks are the NFC postseason bracket’s seventh and final seed as a consequence.
The offence of Green Bay was largely to be blamed for the loss since it frequently missed scoring opportunities and because Aaron Rodgers threw a crucial interception in the final minutes. Aidan Hutchinson was difficult for the offensive line to stop, the team frequently committed mistakes at bad times, and the rushing offence never really took off.
Because Seattle’s overtime victory over the Los Angeles Rams had already eliminated the Lions, the onus was entirely on the visiting team. And, at least offensively, the Packers performed accordingly.
In a first half that saw Aaron Jones lose a fumble and attempt a failed fourth down, Green Bay only scored three field goals. Not much changed when a drive stalled once more and Mason Crosby missed a field goal by hitting the crossbar to open the second half.
Rodgers never touched the ball again after throwing a dreadful interception to Kerby Joseph.
Fans have posted a video of Aaron Rodgers being mocked in his post game interviews. Inappropriate noises were added to the Twitter video making fun of the player losing the game against his opponents.
His opposing team, the Lions, responded to the tweet with “We kept the receipts.” The Lions then were congratulated for winning the Super Bowl. This is of course a sarcastic response as the Lions have not won the Super Bowl since 1991 and are dubbed as the “longest postseason win drought.”
Fans were agreeing with the mockery that is happening to Aaron Rogers as they feel that he deserves it after his time on the field. Fans also hope that he learns his lesson to be more humble when being interviewed next time as he might definitely be badly beaten as he did in this match again.
Others claimed that he is obnoxious and cannot wait until he transfers to another team. Fans also stated that he should’ve retired five years ago.
The Minnesota Viking’s Kirk Cousins threw for 265 yards and two touchdowns in a triumphant NFL return to Washington on Sunday while the Buffalo Bills were upset by the New York Jets.
Cousins, who spent six largely frustrating NFL seasons with Washington before joining the Vikings in 2018, sparked Minnesota over the Commanders 20-17.
“I knew I was going to be emotional pulling in, seeing the player parking lot where we used to hang out. I about shed a tear,” Cousins said.
“But we had a job to do, and we got the job done.”
The Vikings on the rise
The Vikings, who trailed 17-7 in the fourth quarter, improved to 7-1 overall — their best start since 2009 — and stretched their win streak to six games, each victory coming by eight points or less.
“We feel like we’re using too many of our lives right now. We need to win a little more convincingly,” Cousins said. “We’ve got to find ways to win a little better. We’ve got to play a little better.
“But I’d much rather have these conversations in the meeting room tomorrow after a win.”
Cousins completed 22 of 40 passes, including touchdown tosses of nine yards to Justin Jefferson and 12 yards to Dalvin Cook, and guided a six-minute drive to set up Greg Joseph’s winning field goal with 12 seconds remaining.
“We’re finding ways to win,” Cousins said. “We’re finding the inches. We grind on them and keep trying to pull them out at the end.”
At New York, the Jets drove 86 yards to set up Greg Zuerlein’s 28-yard game-winning field goal with 1:43 remaining to beat Buffalo 20-17 for their best start in 12 years.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen ran for two touchdowns but Jets defenders stifled the NFL’s top offensive unit as Buffalo fell to 6-2, still ahead of the Jets (6-3) atop the AFC East division.
Miami improved to 6-3 in the AFC East as Tua Tagovailoa threw for 302 yards and three touchdowns in the Dolphins’ 35-32 victory at Chicago.
Chicago’s Justin Fields, who had three touchdown passes and a touchdown run in a losing cause, ran for 178 yards to set an NFL one-game regular-season record for quarterbacks, five more than Michael Vick’s old mark from 2002.
AFC East rival New England improved to 5-4 with a 26-3 home rout of Indianapolis as Mac Jones threw for a touchdown and Jonathan Jones returned an interception 17 yards for a touchdown.
Brady heroics bring win
Tom Brady flipped a 1-yard touchdown pass to Cade Otton with nine seconds remaining to give Tampa Bay a 16-13 victory over the reigning Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams.
The 45-year-old quarterback, winner of a record seven Super Bowl crowns, became the first player with 100,000 career p
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assing yards, completing 36-of-58 throws for 280 yards.
Brady also delivered his NFL record 69th career game-winning drive in the last two minutes or overtime.
The Buccaneers improved to 4-5 while the Rams fell to 3-5 in the first meeting of the two prior NFL champions in which both had losing records.
The Green Bay Packers (3-6) suffered their fifth consecutive loss, falling 15-9 at Detroit as Aaron Rodgers threw three interceptions while Jared Goff threw two touchdown passes for the Lions.
Cincinnati’s Joe Mixon scored a team-record five touchdowns, running 22 times for 153 yards and four touchdowns with four receptions for 58 yards and another score, to power the Bengals over visiting Carolina 42-21.
Travis Etienne ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns and Trevor Lawrence threw for another score as host Jacksonville rallied from a 17-0 deficit to defeat Las Vegas 27-20.
Cameron Dicker’s 37-yard field goal on the final play gave the Los Angeles Chargers a 20-17 triumph at Atlanta. Austin Ekeler ran for one touchdown and caught a touchdown pass for the Chargers.
Geno Smith threw for 275 yards and two touchdowns and Kenneth Walker ran 26 times for 109 yards and two touchdowns to spark Seattle over host Arizona 31-21.
Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles ran over Green Bay on Sunday, knocking Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers out in the third quarter of a 40-33 NFL victory.
The Eagles improved their NFL-best record to 10-1 while the Packers, their playoff ambitions in tatters, fell to 4-8.
“We got the GOAT!” Eagles quarterback Hurts said in a post-game television interview, though he was quick to wish four-time NFL Most Valuable Player Rodgers a speedy recovery.
Rodgers, already nursing a broken thumb, said he suffered a rib injury in the first half, which was aggravated in the third quarter apparently when he absorbed one of three sacks on the night.
“I was just having a hard time breathing and rotating my upper body,” Rodgers said. “I was worried about a punctured lung as well, so I wanted to get that checked out. I’ll get a scan tomorrow.”
Rodgers said his lung was fine, and despite “intense” pain he envisioned playing next weekend “as long as I check out OK tomorrow.”
The Packers had trimmed the deficit to 34-23 with a field goal before Rodgers departed.
Backup Jordan Love connected with Christian Watson for a 63-yard touchdown and authored a field goal drive, but it wasn’t enough against the formidable Eagles offense.
Hurts piled on 310 total yards, completing 16 of 28 passes for two touchdowns. His 157 rushing yards set the Eagles’ single-game record for a quarterback as the team gained a whopping 363 yards on the ground.
Hurts connected with Quez Watkins for a 30-yard touchdown to make it 27-20 at halftime, and pushed the lead to 34-20 midway through the third with a six-yard scoring pass to A.J. Brown.
Bengals claim victory
Elsewhere on Sunday, the suddenly surging Cincinnati Bengals claimed a third straight victory on Sunday as the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs both took their win streaks to five games.
The Bengals, who fell to the Los Angeles Rams in last season’s Super Bowl, beat the AFC South-leading Tennessee Titans, 20-16, in Nashville.
Quarterback Joe Burrow hit Tee Higgins with a 27-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to secure a fifth win in six games for the 7-4 Bengals.
“This is the kind of game that great teams win,” Burrow said. “It’s not always going to be pretty. This is the NFL. You’re playing really, really good teams on the opposing end.
“You’ve got to find ways to win, and we’re starting to do that.”
In Kansas City, the Chiefs notched a 26-10 win over the Rams in a game quarterback Patrick Mahomes called “ugly.”
Mahomes threw one TD, Isiah Pacheco ran for another and Harrison Butker kicked four field goals as the Chiefs failed to convert five of their six red-zone scoring chances into touchdowns.
“I felt like we didn’t execute at a high level in the red zone,” Mahomes said. “I threw a dumb, dumb interception there at the end of the game. But it’s a team game. The defense stepped up — they played great.”
Browns down Bucs
Miami’s fifth straight victory was a comfortable 30-15 decision against the hapless Houston Texans.
Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for 299 yards and one touchdown and extended his run without an interception to four games.
The Las Vegas Raiders won a shootout in Seattle in overtime, beating the Seahawks, 40-34.
In Cleveland, Nick Chubb ran in an overtime touchdown to give the Browns a 23-17 comeback win over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tampa Bay had led 17-10 going into the fourth quarter after Brady had found Ko Kieft with a five-yard pass in the third.
But with 32 seconds left on the clock, Browns quarterback Jacoby Brissett found David Njoku in the endzone to take the game into overtime.
Trevor Lawrence threw for three touchdowns and 321 yards as the Jacksonville Jaguars upset the Baltimore Ravens, 28-27.
Lawrence found Marvin Jones with a 10-yard touchdown pass with 14 seconds left and then found Zay Jones for the game-winning two-point conversion.
Ravens kicker Justin Tucker missed a 67-yard field goal on the last play, an attempt which would have had to beat his own NFL record field goal distance of 66 yards set against Detroit in September 2021.
Aaron Rodgers threw for 238 yards and a touchdown while Green Bay Packers defenders intercepted three passes in the fourth quarter in a 26-20 NFL victory on Sunday at Miami.
The triumph lifts the Packers to 7-8, level with Seattle and Detroit and one-half game behind Washington for the final NFC playoff berth.
Green Bay picked off Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa to set up field goals of 28 and 26 yards by Mason Crosby and a final Packers interception by Rasul Douglas in the dying seconds sealed their third victory in a row.
“A special day for us. Our defense came up and played outstanding,” Rodgers said. “We were down 20-10 and scored the last 16 points. Offensively we struggled in the red zone. But this was special.”
The Dolphins suffered their fourth consecutive defeat and fell to 8-7, clinging to the last AFC playoff berth by a single game over four rivals with two games remaining.
Packers were aided with Saturday losses by Detroit, Seattle and Washington
“Everything we needed to happen this weekend happened,” Rodgers said. “I’m really proud of our team. We found a way to win and the way our defense stepped up the last few drives was outstanding.”
The Packers finish with home games in frigid Green Bay against Detroit and Minnesota, who play in enclosed venues.
“Couple of dome teams coming in,” Rodgers noted. “It has been cold up in Green Bay.”
In a matchup of teams eliminated from playoff contention, the Los Angeles Rams routed visiting Denver 51-14.
Cam Akers carried 23 times for 118 yards and three touchdowns while Baker Mayfield completed 24 of 28 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns for the Rams, who had four interceptions in the romp.
“When you are able to run the ball like that, everything works,” said Mayfield.
Tampa Bay will play later at Arizona with the Buccaneers (6-8) needing a road victory to stay ahead of Carolina and New Orleans in the NFC South division.
