Christian Ponder had the ball inside the ten yard line as time clicked off the clock in the fourth quarter, but he couldn’t put the ball in the end zone and the Lions survived to improve to 8-5 and in the thick of things in the NFC wild card race. Matt Stafford threw two touchdown passes including an long first quarter pass to Titus Young. The Vikings got 109 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown from the red hot Percy Harvin but it wasn’t enough to keep them from falling to 2-11 in what has been a disappointing 2011 season.
