The Miracle in Motown was a National Football League (NFL) game played on December 3, 2015, between the NFC North divisional rivals Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions.

The game, which was broadcast on television nationally on Thursday Night Football, was contested at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, during the 2015 NFL season.

On the final play of regulation, with no time remaining on the game clock and Detroit leading 23–21, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 61-yard (56 m) Hail Mary pass into the end zone that was caught by tight end Richard Rodgers for the game-winning walk-off touchdown.

It was also the start of a three-game winning streak that would help the Packers clinch their seventh consecutive postseason berth.

During the 2015 NFL season, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions were scheduled to play each other twice, continuing their rivalry that began in 1930.

[3] The Packers began the season with a record of 6–0 before losing three straight, including the Week 10 match-up against the Lions.

[5] With a victory in this game, which was broadcast nationally on Thursday Night Football, the Lions would achieve their first season sweep of the Packers since 1991.

On the first play of the drive, Stafford threw a 17-yard touchdown to Calvin Johnson, putting the Lions up 17–0 right before the end of the first quarter.

Stafford completed five passes to four different receivers on the drive for 61 yards, with the field goal bringing the Lions lead to 20–0.

[7] Starks received the hand-off on the next play and then proceeded to fumble the ball forward into the end zone, where it was recovered by Randall Cobb for a touchdown.

Detroit's drive was extended by a defensive offsides penalty on the Packers, a fourth down conversion by the Lions, and a 10-yard scramble by Stafford.

On third down, with 17 yards to go, A. Rodgers escaped the pocket and rushed for a 17-yard touchdown run, bringing the score to 23–21 with just over 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

[8] R. Rodgers, who was the last player to reach the end zone and whose job on the play was to box out defenders and try to catch a tip, leapt high in the air and brought the ball down for the score.

Richard is the perfect guy for that type of situation, big body and his ability to go up—you see his old basketball skills—and high-point the football".

[6] The face mask penalty against Detroit that led to the winning play by Green Bay generated controversy, since replays appeared to show Taylor not grabbing Rodgers's facemask.

[1] In the playoffs, the Packers would defeat the Washington Redskins 35–18 in the Wild Card Round before falling to the Arizona Cardinals in the Divisional Round 20–26 (the game went into overtime after Rodgers completed another successful Hail Mary pass, this time to Jeff Janis, only for Arizona to win on their opening drive of the extra period largely through the efforts of Larry Fitzgerald).

[22][23] The loss effectively eliminated Detroit from playoff contention and after going 3–1 in their final four games, the Lions would finish the season in 3rd place in NFC North with a 7–9 record.

[24][25] The nickname for the play, "Miracle in Motown", was first used by Jim Nantz during the nationally broadcast Thursday Night Football postgame show.