ALLEN PARK -- It’s Detroit Lions-Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving, and it doesn’t get better than that.

Throw in the fact the each team is trying to keep pace with the division-leading Chicago Bears (8-3) and inside the tight NFC standings, and it means even more. For the Lions (7-4), it’s a chance to avoid getting swept by a divisional rival, while erasing the bad taste in their mouth from the Week 1 beatdown in Green Bay.

“But Detroit, Green Bay, Thanksgiving, I just think it’s -- everybody knows what that is, and everybody for the most part grew up with that, and our guys know that, too,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said.

“And so I think that’s what makes it special, to know that -- it’s one thing for everybody to see primetime games, but most of the time, all of the family’s together.

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