Hilger, Lions Edge Kansas City, 7-6

The Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs showed Sunday exactly why they have the National Football League’s lowest-scoring offenses.

In 60 minutes of inept offense, Detroit managed the lone touchdown, a 14-yard pass from Rusty Hilger to Jeff Chadwick in the second quarter, and the Lions held on to win, 7-6.

“This has to be the low point up to this point of the season,” said Kansas City offensive lineman Irv Eatman, a former UCLA player. “There’s no way Detroit has as much talent as we have. There’s no way it should be a baseball score, 7-6. The A’s scored more than that and they weren’t even hitting.”

Hilger, the ex-Raider, checked off a run into a pass on the touchdown play to Chadwick and that helped the Lions (2-6) snap a 6-game losing streak before the second consecutive sellout crowd at Arrowhead Stadium.

The teams each have scored 102 points this season, 12.8 per game. The Chiefs (1-6-1) have dropped 3 1-point decisions this year, including a 7-6 loss to Houston 2 weeks ago.

“We won the game, it doesn’t matter how it looks or how pretty it was,” Hilger said. “The ‘W’ is all that matters. It was a total team effort, regardless of how it looked.”

It looked awful.

“We won the game, which is the most important, even though many things were not as efficient as we would have liked,” Detroit Coach Darryl Rogers said. “We would have liked to have added more luster to it, but we didn’t.”

Kansas City cornerback Kevin Ross said: “That was just horrible football. We’re losing to people we can’t afford to lose to. This is the lowest I’ve ever felt.”