David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterNov 26, 2024, 01:00 PM ET
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It was Sunday afternoon, Nov. 17. The Buffalo Bills were handling the Kansas City Chiefs, and bookmakers around the nation were poised to do something they’d never done before — make the Detroit Lions the favorites to win the Super Bowl.
For weeks, the Lions had been closing the gap with the two-time defending champion Chiefs. They inched even closer with their blowout win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the early
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