It’s been a pretty crazy week of football. Just a few hours ago, we had the Steelers-Patriots game end in a controversial overturned catch and now we have a football game get decided by a fucking piece of paper.
In the fourth quarter of tonight’s Sunday night football game between the Cowboys and Raiders, with the game tied at 17-17 with about 4 minutes lefte in the game, the Cowboys ran a QB sneak with Dak Prescott ran a sneak on fourth-and-1 from their own half of the field. It wasn’t clear whether Prescott was able to convert the first down, so referee Gene Steratore decided to call in the chain crew to measure. After the chains were brought onto the field, Steratore still wasn’t sure if Dallas gotten enough yards for the first down. Steratore proceeded to pull out a folded piece of paper out of pocket to finally determine whether or not the Cowboys had converted a first down on the fourth down play.
They literally just used a piece of paper to determine if the Cowboys got a first down… pic.twitter.com/437SIpi50f
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) December 18, 2017
Of course the Internet had some jokes about the fucking piece of paper giving the Cowboys a first down.
I have never seen some paper decide a first down
— Jason Jones (@mr_jasonjones) December 18, 2017
Also: The paper fit between the ball and the stick. Yet it was a first down? What was the point of that exercise? What am i missing?
— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) December 18, 2017
This Ref thinks the game is a joke… he smiling bout sh** that’s important … a folded piece of paper to determine a first down?
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) December 18, 2017
That first down call was paper thin.
— Michael Fabiano (@Michael_Fabiano) December 18, 2017
What’s more interesting now: End of Pats-Steelers or the Paper First Down?
— Jason Smith (@howaboutafresca) December 18, 2017
By a piece of paper… FIRST DOWN, COWBOYS!
— 105.3 The FAN (@1053thefan) December 18, 2017
They're right next to Silicon Valley, and we're using paper to measure this first down 😂 #DALvsOAK pic.twitter.com/NwYe25e7KR
— YourSports (@YourSports) December 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/NFL_Memes/status/942615751780945925
They literally just used a piece of paper to determine if the Cowboys got a first down. pic.twitter.com/zRLqaNWxtv
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) December 18, 2017
Seriously what the fuck is this shit? The NFL makes billions of dollars a year and decides a game with a piece of paper? Amazing.