A "close call that could have went either way," Blandino declared

Just watch Hitchens' head movement when Pettigrew grabs his facemask:

Bad calls are a part of sports culture. Good teams win championships.

Is that one of the refs in the pic

I've said this all day.....THIS WAS NOT A DETRIMENTAL MISSED CALL!

I can see where you are coming from but the lions had ample time to mount a comeback, you can't blame anyone but them for shitting the bed in the 4th.If that call happens on th final drive I can understand why people would be this upset but hell even then they caused and recovered a double fumble for another shot and…

That is exactly the point. If I am an official the first thing I ask myself is "what would Joey Crawford or Country Joe West do here" and then do the exact opposite. No one paid to see you officiate the game. You call the penalties that you see, but the players are not supposed to bow down to your greatness and…

THANK YOU. Seriously, I'm getting so tired of hearing about Dez, giving him a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct there would have been like when Joey Crawford T'd up Duncan for laughing on the bench. Everybody keeps talking about his helmet not being on when the rule applies to players already on the field removing…

I guarantee you that he didn't use abusive language, since they would have thrown that flag in a second (as that is a point of emphasis). I would wager he screamed something along the lines of "He didn't touch him, he was just face-guarding" since if there is one rule I believe Dez knows really, really well its pass…

Oh chute!

Just the fact that you include the 10 yard punt being because of the flag being picked up, like some mental illness struck the punter because of it, completely kills any legitimacy of this.

so what you are trying to say is that they should have still won

Section 3 Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Man, I'm a Lions fan, too. But let's not delude ourselves... the Lions would've Lions'd this game one way or another.

Buckner and I can sort of give you, because that actually ended a game, even though they did have another game to play and he probably wouldn't have beaten Mookie Wilson to the bag anyway. But the Bartman play was a foul ball that had no impact on the situation whatsoever and was only a big deal because Moises Alou…

So the NFL conspired to make the refs tilt the game towards Dallas, ok...did this happen before or after Suh's ridiculous suspension overturn? So the NFL conspired to help the Lions, then to help the Cowboys? There were some pretty awful calls helping out the Ravens on Saturday, and obviously during the whole Rice…

Yeah, their win % dropped to 67%, clearly that killed their chances.

Luckily, the 6 total points the Lions scored after the first quarter had absolutely zero bearing on any of that.

"What do you expect when you come to Dallas?"

To be fair, the Cowboys had some calls go against them too, including a running into the punter no call (which wouldn't have had a huge impact), a really whimpy hold call that nullified a touchdown, and a pretty blatant hold on that Stafford scramble that resulted in a first down on a touchdown drive.