The Lions will take Wednesday off, practice Thursday, then take the weekend off before returning to prepare for the first playoff game next week.

Jahmyr Gibbs delivered spinning stiff-arms and bolted through webs of would-be tacklers for a 170-yard, four-touchdown performance, leading the Detroit Lions over the Minnesota Vikings in their regular-season finale.

The Detroit Lions throttled the Minnesota Vikings 31-9 to clinch the NFC North division crown. Former USC Trojans receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown became the third player in NFL history to have 115 or more

The Minnesota Vikings put up a whimper of a fight against the Detroit Lions in the final game of the regular season. The final score was 31-9 in favor of the Lions.

The Vikings’ nine-game winning streak came crashing to a halt on Sunday night in Detroit. They failed to score a ... night in Week Eight and that game came days after the Lions beat them 31-29 in Minnesota. The Vikings will have to fix what went wrong ...

The top seed in the NFC and the NFC North divisional crown are up for grabs in the final game of the regular season on Sunday, Jan. 5 as the Detroit Lions host the Minnesota Vikings at Ford Field in Detroit.

Minnesota Vikings linebacker Jonathan Greenard (58) goes around Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta (87) in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn) AP

No matter the play, MLive photojournalists Neil Blake and Jake May were there to document the action, on and off of the field at Sunday night’s showdown between the Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings.

The Lions running back had 139 yards and three touchdowns on the ground to go along with 31 yards receiving and another score in the air.

The biggest game of the NFL season will be going down on Sunday night in Detroit and although the Lions will have home-field advantage, the Minnesota Vikings have decided to spend some serious money to take some of that advantage away.