{"id":1679,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1679","headline":"Lions end Vikings' unbeaten run, Dolphins toast another year","dek":"Detroit beat Minnesota 19-15 in a defensive grind, keeping the 1972 Dolphins as the NFL's last undefeated champions.","body":"The Minnesota Vikings' undefeated season ended Sunday with a 19-15 loss to the Detroit Lions, a result that lets the 1972 Miami Dolphins keep bragging rights as the league's only unbeaten champions for another year.\n\nThe game was mostly a low-scoring slog until the fourth quarter. Minnesota's offense, led by Kyler Murray, had struggled much of the season, and the defense that had carried the team to a 6-0 start finally buckled in the second half, letting Jahmyr Gibbs run wild for Detroit.\n\nThe win was overshadowed somewhat by a scary injury to Lions linebacker Jack Campbell, who was carted off the field after colliding with a teammate. He was one of several Detroit defensive starters to leave the game, though the depleted unit still held on.\n\nThe victory was a significant one for Detroit, which had been in danger of falling three games back of the Vikings in the standings. Instead, the loss snaps Minnesota's perfect start and tightens the race atop the division.","published_at":"2026-11-01T23:19:04.454051+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Minnesota Suffers First Defeat: 3 Takeaways From The Lions' Win Over The Vikings","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/3-takeaways-from-lions-win-over-vikings"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Minnesota Vikings lose, saving the 1972 Miami Dolphins' 17-0 mark","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/minnesota-vikings-lose-saving-1972-214124245.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Vikings loss means 1972 Dolphins can celebrate as NFL's final unbeaten team goes down","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7745189/2026/11/01/vikings-loss-final-unbeaten-1972-dolphins/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Minnesota Vikings lose, saving the 1972 Miami Dolphins' 17-0 mark","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/minnesota-vikings-lose-saving-1972-214124864.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"1972 Dolphins celebrate as the lone undefeated team in 2026 falls","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/1972-dolphins-celebrate-lone-undefeated-223409125.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}