Thousands of them waved yellow towels, making Ford field feel more like Heinz field, their usual digs in Pittsburgh.
The game hadn't even ended when a certain phrase started popping up on laptop screens throughout the Ford Field press box.
In June Bill Ford summoned 20 company executives to Ford Field, the gleaming new home of his family's Detroit Lions football team.
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The team lost money last season despite selling out all of their games at Ford Field for the first time since 2007.
While there is more vacant land in Detroit than there is land in San Francisco, that is mostly outside Ford Field.
Mr Romney is also planning to make a major economic speech on 24 February at Ford Field, home to the Detroit Lions NFL team.
Two big new stadiums have opened downtown in recent years, including Ford Field, which helped the city win its bid to host the Super Bowl in 2006.
On Thanksgiving Day Ford Field will host roughly 65, 000 fans.
The Lions have not been able to capitalize on their stadium, Ford Field, one of the best in football, because of their shoddy performance on the gridiron since the stadium was built in 2002.
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"A few common-sense reforms are going to ensure that we can make good on our promises to our seniors and we can also save Social Security and Medicare for the future generations, " Mr. Romney said in the February speech hosted by the Detroit Economic Club at Ford Field.
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But the Lions sold out all their home games this year as the team raced out to a fast start, and a game against the Chicago Bears in October set an attendance record at Ford Field and posted an all-time high television rating in the Detroit market.
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Mr. Ford's Field Photographic Branch, which produced Academy Award-winning documentaries for the military on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, created a film to be shown at the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg.
Miss Wells-Burr's body was discovered by fire crews in her Ford Focus in a field in Ashill.
Miss Wells-Burr, who graduated from Bath Spa University with a first-class degree, was discovered by fire crews in her red Ford Focus in a field in Ashill.
New finds in the Wattenberg Field north of Denver alone could contain more than a billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas, essentially matching the huge Eagle Ford or the Bakken Field in western North Dakota.
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The most reliable projections that have been issued to date make it clear that the Eagle Ford Shale is likely to ultimately surpass the East Texas Field to become the largest oil field ever discovered in the lower 48 states in terms of total ultimate oil production.
As mentioned last week, several projections indicate that the Eagle Ford Shale is very likely to ultimately surpass the East Texas Field as the largest oil field ever discovered in the lower 48 states.
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This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.
Chevron, for example, has invested heavily in shale production in the Marcellus field in Pennsylvania, while ConocoPhillips has been working hard at the Eagle Ford formation in Texas.
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