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Opinion: Lions played for something bigger than themselves on Sunday. They won for Oxford.

Portrait of Jeff Seidel Jeff Seidel
Detroit Free Press

After his first win as the Detroit Lions coach, Dan Campbell held up a football.

“This game ball goes to the whole Oxford community — all those who were affected,” Campbell said to start his news conference on Sunday after the Lions’ dramatic, last-second 29-27 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.

In an emotional moment that left you with a lump in your throat, Campbell solemnly read off the names of the four students who were killed and the seven others who were injured at the school shooting in Oxford.

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