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Posted on Thu, Nov. 22, 2007 10:15 PM

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Packers, Cowboys set up Texas showdown

Star News Services

How about a little turkey with that cheese?

The Green Bay Packers made a Motown sound of their own Thursday in Detroit, feasting on the Lions 37-26.

Say cheese. The Pack is back.

Brett Favre set a Green Bay record with 20 consecutive completions and threw for a season-high 381 yards and three touchdowns in the Packers’ convincing win against the slumping Lions.

Now, after winning the showdown in Motown, the Packers helped set up a huge NFC game next Thursday in Dallas against the Cowboys, who jettisoned the New York Jets 34-3 in Irving, Texas.

Both the Packers and Cowboys are 10-1. The winner gains the edge for home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs.

The Packers matched their best 11-game record since 1929 and took a four-game lead in the NFC North with five games left in the regular season.

The Cowboys have their best record through 11 games in their 48-year history. Tony Romo threw two touchdown passes, including a late one to Terrell Owens.

The Cowboys needed only eight plays to go ahead 7-0 and were up 21-0 before the Jets, 2-9, even scored, getting a field goal in the final minute of the first half. Dallas did not allow a touchdown for the first time all season and the 31-point margin was a season high.

Favre, 38 and a three-time MVP, carved up the Lions with another sensational performance that made him look as if he’s back in his prime. Favre’s seventh 300-yard game of the season matched a team mark he set in 1995.

Detroit, 6-5, lost its third straight game, making its playoff picture bleak because it would lose wild-card tie breakers against the Giants, Washington, Philadelphia and Arizona.

•COLTS CRUISE: Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes, Anthony Gonzalez had 105 yards receiving and the defending Super Bowl champions, after getting stunned with 10 quick points by the Falcons, rebounded for a 31-13 victory in Atlanta.

The only highlight for the Falcons was Warrick Dunn becoming the 22nd rusher in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards.