"No hard feelings?

''No,'' Bears linebacker Lance Briggs said after the Bears-Lions rivalry reached a new level of animosity with a major-league melee in the fourth quarter of the Bears' 37-13 victory at Soldier Field. ''I think the melee happened and it's done and we're done. After the game, guys went up and shook hands.''

Well, some guys did, anyway.

''I didn't want to talk to anybody after the game,'' said Bears defensive tackle Henry Melton. ''I saw [Brandon Pettigrew] start walking to the locker room and I was like, 'OK. That's what it is then.' We're good friends. But he wasn't going to come out to talk to nobody.''

The growing rivalry lived up to expectations. The perpetrators of the all-out brawl in the fourth quarter were two unlikely suspects — Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford and Bears' nickel back D.J. Moore.

After Tim Jennings intercepted a Stafford pass, Moore blocked Stafford on the return and Stafford responded by grabbing Moore by the back of the helmet and throwing him down to the ground. Moore retaliated by getting up and plowing into Stafford, who was still on his knees. Moore was ejected.

''I felt like I was wrong. But I think we were both wrong,'' Moore said. ''It kind of makes it seems like they kept him in the game because he was a little more important for the league. Both of us were wrong.''

''He kind of blocked me and I was just trying to get him off of me the best I knew how,'' Stafford said. ''I guess he didn't like the way I did it and he wanted to ask me about it.''"