"I have streak burnout right now," said Lions kicker Jason Hanson.

The Lions will try to avoid being the first team in NFL history to go 0-16 when they face the 5-10 Green Bay Packers who, despite losing five consecutive games themselves, are 10-point favorites.

"All the stats of what we don't do, I don't even care about them anymore," said Hanson, a 17-year veteran. "It's not that I don't care about winning, it's just whatever. Most of the guys in (this locker room) weren't here five years ago and they don't care about how long the streak is. If we're good enough, we're going to win."

The last time the Lions won in Wisconsin it was 1991, the year before they drafted Hanson in the second round of the draft. That's 16 losses in a row in the regular season with a playoff road loss in 1994 thrown in.

In that stretch of 17, the Lions have scored 20 or more points only twice and haven't done so in the past 12 years. In the past eight seasons, the Lions have failed to score more than 14 points in any game at Lambeau Field.

Still, the Lions have come close to snapping that skid in recent years. They had back-to-back 16-13 losses (including one in overtime) in 2004 and 2005.

"We could never get any momentum, that's what I remember," said center Dominic Raiola, an eight-year veteran. "We would take control of the game, but never hang on to it. We started a game once up there with a play-action bomb down the sideline, completed it and scored and that was it for the rest of the day."

Tight end Casey FitzSimmons, who has been with the Lions for six years, said lack of execution in the fourth quarter has "pretty much been our downfall in Green Bay."

The Packers have had the Lions' number over recent years for two big reasons the Packers have been led by future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre and Lambeau Field is a tough place to play. Lambeau isn't as much a stadium, as it is a shrine to Football.

"It's the fans, they've got the best fans in the NFL," FitzSimmons said. "They don't flip you off, they cheer you and they're there to watch the game of Football. They respect the game."

Said Lions linebacker Paris Lenon, an eight-year veteran who played his first five season with the Packers: "You're looking at a packed stadium every week regardless of the weather and regardless of the conditions. Also, late in the year, most teams that are coming in aren't used to playing in those kinds of conditions, especially the footing."

Lions head coach Rod Marinelli said there are only a few places in the country that have built up such unique folklore. He likes to think of where Bart Starr was on the field when he scored the winning touchdown in the 1967 NFL title game.

"You walk in it's an immediate tradition," Marinelli said. "You put this helmet on, you're supposed to win. Certain teams, certain franchises, have developed that over the years and that's something you're always trying to strive for."

The biggest difference this season for the Lions, as it relates to their 17-game losing streak in Wisconsin, is that Favre is now playing for the New York Jets. New Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers might be a promising young player, but Favre was a true nemesis.

"At the end of the game, you could just feel that they thought they were going to win," Marinelli said.