A Detroit Lions Fan Already Put Up A Billboard Complaining About Last Week's Controversial Loss To The Cowboys

Detroit fans move fast, dude. This game's body wasn't cold before this billboard was put up. Somebody acted swiftly last week, which is doubly impressive since they did it during the holidays when most people barely move from the couch.

I've written about it before, but I'm usually not the guy who points to an officiating mistake and claims it lost my team in the game. There are 1 million different things that go on throughout a football game, and the last organization that I'm usually willing to give the benefit of the doubt to is the Detroit Lions. With that said, they got hosed last weekend against the Cowboys. It's happened before, but it's rarely happened in a game of that magnitude. Detroit fans and media alike have been expressing their frustration in some getting pretty damn creative ways, including putting up billboards in Detroit.

This may be just one big coincidence. Decker is a relatively popular last name. Maybe somebody named Decker worked at an office in Detroit and committed an HR violation. Somebody could've reported that. See, that's one of those jokes that everybody's going to cringe at when they read it, but I'm damn proud of it. Lions fans have a right to complain. This is a group that's actually earned respect, and yet the league still screws them over. 

It's very clear that the league has something of a personal bias against the Detroit Lions, but why? The Lions being successful would be a good story for the NFL, the same way that the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 was good for baseball. During the Ndamukong Suh years, I kind of understood it. They were a somewhat unlikeable and undisciplined bunch, but this group is fun. I know people outside of Detroit who would be happy to see the Lions in the Super Bowl. Outside of the sick, twisted pleasure that the league office might get out of it, I don't really understand why it's always the Lions who are on the receiving end of bad calls.

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This is all fine and dandy and everything. Fans are welcome to express themselves in any way they please. At the same time, this was not a playoff game. Yes, it had major playoff implications and likely prevented the Lions from locking up the two seed in the NFC, but the season is not over. I don't know how many times I need to say this, but I've said all year that this Lions team is different. In that case, we need to maintain the idea that they're capable of overcoming another fucking from the officials. There's a legitimate chance the Lions play in a rematch against the Cowboys in just a few weeks. It sucks balls, but it's not the end of the world.