Obama Comments on Controversial Play in Lions vs. Cowboys

   Many Detroit Lions fans will argue that officials played a major role in the 24-20 Wild Card Game loss to the Dallas Cowboys. United States President Barack Obama agrees with the fans. President Obama weighed in Tuesday on the reversed fourth-quarter pass-interference call. “Obama watched the Lions game and told The Detroit News in a Tuesday interview 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.”

One of the biggest things the fans are mad about is that Dez Bryant ran onto the field protesting the call without a helmet on which is a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conductpenalty and persuaded the ref that he made a bad call and resulted in the ref picking up the flag giving no explanations.

No one knows if this call would have changed the score of the game but would have defiantly given the lions another set of downs to work with.