Defending champion Kansas City Chiefs around star quarterback Patrick Mahomes surprisingly lost at home to the Detroit Lions at the start of the new season in the US professional football league NFL.
At 21:20 for the guests, Amon-Ra St. Brown scored the first touchdown of the season and provided the lead. The 23-year-old now has twelve NFL touchdowns in his career and extended the German record. He also had the all-time high of the game with six catches for 71 total yards.
Lions quarterback: “We played hard the whole game”
The Chiefs turned the game around before the break and went into halftime 14-7. After the change of sides, the offensive of the Super Bowl champion, who had to do without the injured Travis Kelce, only managed two field goals.
The Lions, on the other hand, intercepted a pass from Mahomes, scored a touchdown from the situation and took the lead for the second time a good seven minutes from the end of the game – which the highly traded Detroit team defended to the end.
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“We played hard the whole game. We didn’t play our best, but we were made for it,” said Lions quarterback Jared Goff. “Our defense did a very good job,” he said of the defensive performance that prevented a late Mahomes touchdown drive.
Lions notoriously weak team
With eight wins in their last ten games last season, the Lions had created such a buzz that the NFL wanted the notoriously weak team for decades to attend the prestigious season opener.
How serious the Lions were about not traveling to Kansas City just to shake hands was shown in the first quarter when the score was 0-0: Instead of kicking the ball deep in their own half as usual on the fourth try, far in the direction of the Chiefs , the Lions pretended to surprise the hosts and keep the attack alive. The result a few minutes later: St. Brown’s touchdown.
2023-09-08 03:49:28
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