The Dallas Cowboys penalty fiasco has gotten so serious that even the president was asked to give his two cents.
Barack Obama talked about the controversial non-call on the Cowboys that helped lead them to a 24-20 wild-card round win over the Detroit Lions in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday. The president is a fan of Detroit’s division rival Chicago Bears, but that didn’t stop him from sympathizing with Lions supporters.
“(I can’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,” Obama said. “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.”
Still, Obama could only feel so bad for the Lions in the end.
“Given the performance of my Bears, I can’t have too much sympathy for the Lions,” Obama said. “You guys were in a lot better position than we were. I’d love to have your defense right now.”
The president wasn’t the only one who was vocal about his displeasure with the officials either.
Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was mic’d up during the game and could be heard yelling, “Home cookin’!” from the sideline.
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