Jack White closed out his halftime show at the Detroit Lions' Thanksgiving game against the Green Bay Packers with Seven Nation Army. That was expected -- you can't attend a live sporting event in America without hearing it even when White's not around. What preceded it was not.
White brought out a very special guest and fellow Detroiter to team up for one awesome song Thursday afternoon. Eminem rolled out halfway through the show to belt out Till I Collapse, a semi-deep cut -- hey, it wasn't Lose Yourself -- and thoroughly bury 2024's lackluster Shaboozey show. For about eight fleeting minutes, it was 2002 all over again. Except, you know, the Lions were actually good.
Detroit's own, Eminem and Jack White! #OnePride pic.twitter.com/O9TWYPbMnS
— Joel Sebastianelli (@JJSebastianelli) November 27, 2025
It was early Christmas for geriatric millennials as two indelible staples of poorly ripped and badly mislabeled MP3s teamed up to, and I cannot xpress this enough, rock an entire stadium's faces off.
Jack White + Eminem at halftime of a Lions game.
Not sure it gets any more Detroit than that. pic.twitter.com/V3sTbdnw4x
— Jacob Richman (@JacobHRichman) November 27, 2025
EMINEM X JACK WHITE. EPIC.@Verizon | @Lions pic.twitter.com/joDb7Mh5q7
— NFL (@NFL) November 27, 2025
If that wasn't enough, it came two quarters after Cece Winans crushed the national anthem.
CeCe Winans getting us going with the National Anthem ???????? pic.twitter.com/lLtMztQJPp
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) November 27, 2025
While it wasn't as much lip service as rolling out Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent at 2022's Super Bowl, it was an appreciated nod to the folks now dealing with back pain and watching entirely too many cooking shows. And it cements one thing; Detroit never has to roll out Shaboozey ever again.