For the fourth time in three years, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions will be clashing in a high stakes game. It'll be the third time that it's one of the marquee games in a given week and the first time since the 2023 NFC Divisional Round that the game is on national television.
It's the first time since 1998 that they'll meet under the bright lights of Monday Night Football.
Earlier this year the Bucs mercifully snapped a long-standing primetime curse, on that extended back to Tom Brady's final year in Tampa Bay. Before beating the Texans in Week 2, the Bucs hadn't won a regular season primetime game since December 2022 -- so it had been a while.