Lions notes: Detroit Lions invite cancer patient to first NFL game

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• The Detroit Lions made an extremely classy move this week. Thanks to a tip from the Detroit Free Press' Mitch Albom, they hosted Chris Liwak, a 56-year-old man suffering from lung cancer, for his first Lions game of his life. Jim Caldwell even spoke to Liwak on the phone after the game.
• Ezekiel Ansah is having a pretty good season, y'all:

  #Lions DE @Ziggy_Ansah has more sacks (11.5) than the top 2 players on any other NFCN team. GB: 10.5 (Peppers/Matthews) MIN: 10.5 CHI: 10

  — Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) November 28, 2015

  
  
• Calvin Johnson likes to feast on Thanksgiving:

  13.8 percent of Calvin Johnson's career touchdown catches (approximately 1 in 7) have come on Thanksgiving.

  — Justin Rogers (@Justin_Rogers) November 27, 2015

  
  
• Jerry Mallory's latest podcast describes his Thanksgiving experience at Ford Field this week and calls out the haters who are rooting for more Lions losses.
• Ford Field hosted the high school Division 2 championship this week. To say the ending to the game was dramatic is a bit of an understatement:

  UNBELIEVABLE. Detroit King wins the Division 2 state title on a Hail Mary. Went 97 yards in 38 seconds. pic.twitter.com/hykmmtnTQt

  — Brad Galli (@BradGalli) November 27, 2015