Barry Sanders Rips The NFL And Officiating After They Cost Lions The Game

The Detroit Lions were robbed on Monday Night Football.

Not only did the Lions fell victim to one really, really, really bad call from the officiating but there were three times where the refs completely screwed them.

Two of the calls were “illegal hands to the face” calls that allowed the Packers to extend drives, one of which was on the final possession of the game but there was also an egregious no-call on pass interference that would given the Lions an automatic first down deep inside Packers territory.

Instead, the Packers were able to run out the clock and kick a game-winning field goal.

Following the game, Lions great Barry Sanders took to Twitter to voice his disgust with the NFL and it’s officiating:

I know that no one on the @lions can say it, so I will… that is a terrible missed call, on hands to the face and bad break for our D that is playing so hard. #replayhelpneeded

— Barry Sanders (@BarrySanders) October 15, 2019

That is sickening… the @NFL needs to look at a way to prevent that from happening. Two phantom hands to the face calls really hurts us tonight. Yes, we could have scored TDs, but @Lions played too well to have the game end this way. #DETvsGB @espn

— Barry Sanders (@BarrySanders) October 15, 2019

Not saying that we would not have been able to overcome those calls if we had converted TDs in the red zone, but man they hurt

— Barry Sanders (@BarrySanders) October 15, 2019

All facts.