President Obama Comments on Controversial Play in Lions vs. Cowboys

January 7, 2015   ·   Matt Fitzgerald   ·   Jump to comments

Numerous 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 is in their corner.
President Obama weighed in Tuesday on the reversed fourth-quarter pass-interference call in Sunday's playoff showdown at AT&T Stadium, per The Detroit News' David Shepardson:
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."
The commander in chief certainly knows his stuff as far as football t...

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