Officials Steal the Lions Roar Again...

I had a totally different post planned for today, I was going to recap the performance of my fantasy football team for you. Instead, something more pressing has come up. Something particularly heinous that I wrote about not too long ago.

You probably thought I was being overly dramatic if you read the post. Maybe you thought, "this is just another fan crying because his crappy team didn't win". Maybe that is partially true, but I think if you take last nights events into account, you will see there is a definite pattern of biased by officials against the Lions.

I'm going to be honest, I didn't actually watch the game. Monday night football is on much too late for me to stay up on a school night (because I work in a school). I guess I shouldn't have been, but I was a little shocked when I woke up this morning and saw my Facebook feed flooded with friends complaining about the outcome of the game.

In fact, there were quite a few funny memes indicating the Packers might have paid off the refs to get the calls to go their way.

Now trust me, I am not naive enough to believe that the Lions do everything perfect. I am also sure they have gotten their fair share of missed calls. The truth is, they had some pretty bad years but it really feels like the officials just assume the team from Detroit did something wrong most of the time.

The sad thing is pretty much everyone agrees with it. Every news story I see about the game this morning doesn't talk about how Green Bay outplayed the Lions. Instead they talk about how the officials totally blew two key calls that basically ripped the game from the hands of the Lions. How can you call illegal hands to the face when the defenders hands are clearly not on the players face. To make it worse, they made the horrible call TWICE!

Many might argue that the Lions had every opportunity outside of those calls to win the game, but will we ever really know that? There is pretty clear evidence that players (Suh) and teams (The Raiders) with certain reputations tend to get the bad side of penalty calls.

My question is, what have the Lions done to deserve this stigma? Sure Detroit went through some rough years, but the city is doing it's best to come back. There are some really great things going on down there (not the Tigers) that we should be excited about.

This is the team that gave the world Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson (who I might mention has his own rule in the NFL because of yet another bad ref call). Despite his teams record Stafford is arguably one of the best quarter backs in the league and probably would have made quite a few playoffs if he were on any team other than the Lions.

The world can clearly see what is going on here, when do we say enough is enough?