Now that the Detroit Lions have finally won a football game, it is official: The Rams are the worst team in the National Football League.

This former Super Bowl champion has sunk to the very bottom. Their 36-17 loss to the Green Bay Packers was their 13th in a row. They have lost 30 of their last 35 games.

The Lions, meanwhile, are finally trending the other way. They outlasted the hapless Redskins Sunday to snap their epic losing streak.

Here is what the Motown scribes wrote about that:

Mitch Albom, Detroit Free-Press: “After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about Detroit futility — after all that, the gun sounded on this last weekend of September, and our long, local nightmare was finally over. The Lions won a game. I swear.”

Tom Kowalski, Mlive.com: “It’s only fitting that Detroit Lions rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford couldn’t bear to watch the final seconds of his team’s 19-14 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday at Ford Field. There were a lot of other people who couldn’t watch, either. By virtue of their 19-game losing streak, the Lions hardly were a must-see attraction. Not only was the metro Detroit television viewing audience not witness to the Lions’ victory because of the NFL blackout, but only 40,896 fans attended the game. That’s the smallest crowd to see a Lions game in Detroit since 1989.”

Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News: “How do you celebrate the end of historic ignominy? You do it with a gasp and a sigh, and some legitimately gutsy football. The second-longest losing streak in NFL history is over at 19 games, and nobody knows where the Lions go from here. But finally, they can stop looking back, and stop being reminded of all the nasty places they’ve been.”

Drew Sharp, Detroit Free-Press: “Detroit will awaken from its hangover this morning, rub the euphoria from its eyes and still see a team woefully deficient in talent in comparison with the rest of the league. The Lions’ victory over the Redskins finally validated the long-standing NFL creed of ‘on any given Sunday.’ Inevitability, even the worst gets the opponent that plays down to its level to create a fair fight. The victory at least allows the Lions to see the future without the burden of the second-longest losing streak in history.”

As you might expect, the outcome of this game was not well-received in Our National’s Capital.

NO BRIDGE TOO FAVRE

Why did the Vikings keep flirting with Brett Favre through all of his indecision? Why did that organization decide to bring him aboard after he elected to skip the tough portion of training camp?

Because he can still has a bit of magic left in his arm, as he demonstrated Sunday by rallying Minnesota to its last-second victory over the 49ers.

Here is how Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Jim Souhan saw it:

On his last play in his first home game as a Viking, a rival franchise’s exiled legend threw a last second, game-winning touchdown pass he didn’t see on a play he didn’t remember practicing to a receiver he had barely met.

This is what it means to be Brett Favre.

This is what it means to have Brett Favre.

This is what it means to watch Brett Favre.

Somewhere you there, John Madden enjoyed Favre’s heroics while dining on turducken in front of the tube.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while wondering where, exactly, the Rams go from here:

• Will Steve Spagnuolo’s team ever stretch the field with its passing game?
• Did tight end Randy McMichael retire without bothering to tell anybody?
• Will Redskins owner Daniel Snyder let coach Jim Zorn finish the season before firing him? Or will he go ahead and put him and his players out of their misery?
• Since when do the Seahawks wear glow-in-the-dark uniforms?
• Is Jerry Jones the greatest salesman ever? is there no limit to his ability to generate revenue?
• How could Adam Wainwright NOT win the Cy Young Award after Saturday’s victory?
• Did Tyler Greene ever expect to end up in center field for the Cards?
• Isn’t it sad to see how far the Mets have sunk?
• Isn’t is reassuring to know that CFL teams do not condone or sanction shovel fights?
• Why would Mizzou risk letting Mike Anderson’s cell phone fall into enemy hands?

SUPERMAN GOES DONE

As it turns out, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is not invincible. Watch him get crushed here and appreciate the risk college football players take for our amusement.

Wow. Let’s hope Tebow’s head clears in the days ahead. Post-concussion syndrome is not something he wants in his life.

MEGAPHONE

“You have nothing to be looking at the floor for! You didn’t steal anything! You didn’t do anything wrong! OK? We’re going to get better! We’re going to get there! We will see them again in the playoffs, all right? You hold your head up!”

San Francisco coach Mike Singletary, trying to cheer up the 49ers after their come-from-ahead loss to the Vikings.