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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Dallas Clark made an ugly win against an ugly team a lot more palatable.

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Making fun of the Lions is too easy, like an ice fisherman casting his line into a drink cooler. In a city that is home to auto executives who traveled in private jets to Washington to plead poverty, the Lions still provide the biggest laughs. Derek Richards, a stand-up comedian who grew up here, said: ''You can make a Lions joke anywhere in the country and people get it. Everybody across the United States knows how miserable this team is.''

In the 1960s, a profitable era of muscle cars, the Detroit Lions were at times among the best teams in the N.F.L., right behind Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers.

Might Joe Paterno be on to something as the omniscient octogenarian in the press box?

That Brett Favre may have shared information about his former team with the rival Detroit Lions is the latest episode in an increasingly bitter split between the quarterback and the Green Bay Packers.

The Colts managed an inspiring come-from-behind victory, but all is clearly not right for a team that was expected to contend for the A.F.C. title.

Matt Millen, who presided over some of the most unsuccessful seasons in Detroit Lions history, was fired on Wednesday, ending a run of more than seven years as team president.

Matt Ryan became the first quarterback in eight years to throw for a touchdown with his first pass as the Falcons beat the Lions on Sunday.

Detroit running back Rudi Johnson said Wednesday that the player who was waived to make room for him on the Lions' roster -- Tatum Bell -- took his luggage from team headquarters in Allen Park, Mich. ''All this happened when he got released,'' Johnson said. ''He came in to get some stuff out of his locker and that's when he scooped up the bags.''

In their opening preseason game, Eli Manning and the Giants showed how much rust had built up as they lost to the Detroit Lions.

A change in military policy means Caleb Campbell, a safety at Army and a seventh-round draft pick, will not get a chance to play for the Detroit Lions after all.

Instead of going to Iraq after graduating from West Point, Caleb Campbell will be allowed to play professional football for the Detroit Lions while remaining on active duty.

Caleb Campbell, a safety from West Point, was selected in the seventh round by Detroit. The Lions' secondary can certainly use the help, and has a chance to get it immediately because a new rule implemented at the United States Military Academy will allow Campbell to play football now instead of serving in the military. Campbell is the first player from a service academy to be drafted since 1999. He will probably play linebacker in the N.F.L. And his new head coach, Rod Marinelli, is a Vietnam ...

For the second straight season the Saints’ season ended at Soldier Field in a loss to the Bears.