Obama: Never Saw Anything Like Lions-Cowboys Playoff Call
President Barack Obama says he feels the pain of Detroit Lions fans after the team's playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys in which an official's call played a key role.
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President Barack Obama says he feels the pain of Detroit Lions fans after the team's playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys in which an official's call played a key role.
Obama says that Detroit has a great defense and "there's always next year ..."
"Now I feel like I owe them," Prater added, "so I want to stay here as long as I can."
Wednesday, Cowboys beat writer Clarence Hill reported that the NFL also conceded it had missed multiple infractions that hurt Dallas.
The officials did not prevent the Lions from winning, the Cowboys did.
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President Barack Obama says he'd be "pretty aggravated" if he were a Detroit Lions fan after the team lost an NFL playoff game to the Dallas Cowboys after a disputed penalty call.
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"Can we explain that or no?" Stafford asks. "Just flat out overturning a pass interference call?"
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"I just think this place has a way of growing on you," Lions guard Rob Sims said.
The Detroit-Dallas game Sunday averaged 42.3 million viewers on Fox, the third-highest total in NFL wild-card history.
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The broadcast trailed only the San Francisco-Green Bay game last year on Fox at 47.1 million and the 2012 Pittsburgh-Denver game on CBS at 42.4 million.
"They'll be back," safety Glover Quin said with a grin, ostensibly referring to Suh and Fairley.
Caldwell suggested the NFL learn from what he termed a mistake by the officials in the game between Detroit and the Dallas Cowboys.
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"To me, you can't pick that flag up," Pereira said.
Officiating prompted conversation and consternation all season in the NFL, so why should the playoffs — particularly the pass interference call that was, then suddenly wasn't, in the Cowboys' wild-card win over the Lions — be any different?
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The Detroit Lions host the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season on Thursday.
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