If you’re a Packers fan, you have two ways to think about what happened on Sunday. One way of looking at this game is nothing less than comeuppance, justified retribution for the years of officiating that has benefitted Green Bay in critical moments. The other is that your football team was objectively worse in every which way, and had it not been for fumbles your defense didn’t even cause, Sunday would have been a two-score game at a minimum.
Choose your perspective, and get over it—you have “Thursday
Night Football” to prepare for!
Lions vs. Packers Week 7 Song of the Game: “Get Over It” by OK Go
Take a break from your daily grind and come back with me in time—back to the year 2002.
The Playstation 2 is all the rage in the gaming world, and you’ve just ripped the wrapper on your brand new copy of Madden NFL 2003. You’re excited to see how the Detroit Lions stack up against the competition, but after scrolling through the league, it might be easier to rebuild one of the NFL Europe teams in Franchise mode. You wonder how the Lions are always so bad, year after year, but this your cross to bear. There’s no amount of trades you can pull off to improve your team enough and actually enjoy playing the game, so you play God and take control of all 32 teams to carry out your bidding.
(Except Mike McMahon—you and your 77 acceleration can stay under center.)
The soundtrack to your menu scrolling—while stealing Torry Holt from the Rams and Ricky Williams from the Dolphins—brings you so many offerings, from Good Charlotte (ew) to Nappy Roots’ rock remix of “Awnaw” (bop). But there’s one track you can’t get enough of: “Get Over It” by OK Go. You get to the options for EA Trax and turn off whatever Bon Jovi song keeps playing, and you’re listening to “Get Over It” a four or five times an hour.
Let’s just cut to the chase: do you know what all of these memories and the Lions’ 20-17 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday has to do with one another? Manipulation! Corruption! Cheating!
Oh, it’s such a drag, what a chore
Oh, your wounds are full of salt
Everything’s a stress, and what’s more
Well, it’s all somebody’s fault
Packers’ fans had a rough Sunday and Monday—we’ll see how Tuesday plays out—but it’ll be interesting to see if they continue to spin tales of the officials, the Lions, and the NFL at large conspiring to defeat their beloved team.
Honey, your football team just isn’t very good.
It’s nobody’s else’s fault that Green Bay sports the least efficient and productive rushing attack in the NFL since… 1994. Yes, the Packers 2.9 rushing yards per attempt is the first time a team has been under 3.0 rushing yards per attempt in over thirty years. Green Bay’s deep-passing attack is what we thought it was when it’s not buoyed by immoral and unethical behavior. Detroit’s self-inflicted miscues were the only reason the Packers even had a shot in this one, but at the end of the day, they lost a morally good football game because the better team won.
What a pain, well, it’s all a crying shame
What left to do but complain?
You better find someone to blame
Hey! Get, get, get, get, get over it!
Hey! Get, get, get, get, get over it!
Hey! Get, get, get, get, get over it!
Get over it, get over it! Oh!
If you want to relive previous Lions seasons, you can find the playlists we curated below: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. And if you want to read previous versions of our Song of the Game columns, you can find those here.
