Referees in Packers - Lions Game Make Hilariously Late Call That Turns a Detroit Field Goal Into a TD
The Detroit Lions kicked the Green Bay Packers asses on Thursday Night Football to start Week 4 on Amazon Prime. The score might have been closer, but there was a penalty called that took a Lions field goal off the board and turned it into a touchdown. Here's the original play where Quay Walker jumped over a Detroit lineman while trying to block the kick.
Quay Walker just got called for a huge penalty during the commercial break and now the Lions have 1st and goal pic.twitter.com/pQmOFPb83w
— alex (@highlightheaven) September 29, 2023
That's illegal. And worthy of an unsportsmanlike penalty. However... none of the officials on the field made the call when it happened. Al Michaels and the Prime broadcast went to commercial as if the field goal counted and both teams sent their special teams units onto the field for a kickoff.
how is this crew so terrible???
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) September 29, 2023
they don't flag that until New York tells them to during a commercial??
can you send refs down a level like relegation
They made the right call on the field goal block, but who made the call and what took so long? That has to be called immediately when it happens or not at all, not a minute later after both teams' kickoff units have come onto the field.
— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) September 29, 2023
After the commercial break Detroit somehow had the ball back inside the 10. And a few plays later, on another 4th down, they punched it in to push their lead to 34-17.
So it was a dumb penalty that should have been called, but it was also one that wasn't called. So was it reviewed because it was a scoring play? Is it even allowed to make that call on replay? Especially right after they couldn't review Green Bay completing their biggest play of the game after the third quarter ended? It just seems like multiple questionable replay decisions.