People are still reeling from the controversial non-call in the Detroit Lions Wild Card game against the Dallas Cowboys this past Sunday. It’s such a big topic that even President Barack Obama weighed in.
via ESPN:
President Barack Obama says he’d be “pretty aggravated” if he were a Detroit Lions fan after the team lost an NFL playoff game to the Dallas Cowboys following a disputed penalty call.
But since he’s a long-suffering fan of his hometown Chicago Bears, Obama says he can’t have “too much sympathy for the Lions.” The Bears had a losing season and missed the playoffs.
Detroit was ahead 20-17 midway through the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game when a referee flagged the Cowboys for pass interference. But officials rescinded the call moments later, leaving the Lions facing fourth-and-1. Detroit punted, and Dallas then drove to the winning touchdown for a 24-20 final score.
Obama said he watched the game and told the newspaper that he couldn’t “remember a circumstance in which a good call by one of the refs is argued about by an opposing player of the other team with his helmet off on the field, which in and of itself is supposed to be a penalty. The call is announced and then reversed without explanation. I haven’t seen that before. So I will leave it up to the experts to make the judgment as to why that happened, but I can tell you if I was a Lions fan I’d be pretty aggravated.”
