Packers Not Getting Flagged for Lining Up With 13 Players is a Special Kind of Hell
By Sam Dunn
What did we do to deserve this? ANY of this?
I'm not even talking about Detroit Lions fans here. Sure, you are the most egregious victims right now, but the series of gross officiating transgressions we saw on Monday Night Football hurts everyone. This negligence hurts families. It hurts communities. In fact, in the long run, it even hurts the Packers by sullying the integrity of their on-field product despite their last-ditch win.
Seriously, can you count? Well, count this.
12 men on the field for the packers field goal attempt got called... but 13 men on the field for the packers is fair game.
— Levi Chappell (@LeviChappell) October 15, 2019
NFL got the outcome they wanted and refs and sports betting go hand in hand. https://t.co/Ct3FKEu2ez
13 PLAYERS IN WHITE JERSEYS. Zero flags.
Just moments after the Lions were penalized for lining up with 12 men, giving Green Bay a chance at a touchdown instead of a punt. They obliged.
Jaamal Williams and the #Packers capitalize on a #Lions 12 men on the field penalty giving them a 1st and goal opportunity rather than a FG attempt. Score is now #Lions 13 - #Packers 7#MondayNightFootball #DETvsGB pic.twitter.com/OVHQZhbsoT
— TimeoutSPORTS__ (@TimeoutSPORTS3) October 15, 2019
It's hard to imagine any explanation for this blunderous game. We don't even know what "illegal hands to the face" is anymore. In fact, I'm not sure I even know what a face is. And what, still, are hands?
These are difficult, unsettling questions of earthly ontology, suddenly. The epistemological quandaries are stinky, and will likely never be settled. Thanks for nothing, refs. We don't know what it is that we saw last night, but it certainly was not football.