Houston Texans @ Detroit Lions. 11:30. 11/22. **Official Thanksgiving Day Thread**

[Thorn]

There was no way in hell that was a TD. But I'll take it. I guess we can't complain about the officials today. LOL

[Doppelganger]

Originally Posted by 76Texan

It's a scoring play why wasn't it reviewable?

That's what I want to know?

Maybe a makeup call for all the missed Suh calls?

[mariowillshine15]

Horrible call but great play by Forsett to keep going.

[76Texan]

Originally Posted by ChrisG

Since he threw the flag before the whistle, no review is possible, even by offical review. Its some weird loophole on the books

Wow learn something new

[ChrisG]

Originally Posted by CloakNNNdagger

He was down, but there was no contact by the Lions D WHILE he was down.

But was it Lions contact that made him go down?

[fikster]

Originally Posted by Showtime100

I have never seen such a horrible call go my team's way!!!!!!!!!!!!

awesome. props. still laughing.

[SmoochyTX]

The fans are STILL booing.

[Mailman]

Originally Posted by CloakNNNdagger

He was down, but there was no contact by the Lions D WHILE he was down. Therefore no whistle..

The defender caused him to go down though.

[TheDrifter]

My brother: The refs just kicked the Lions in the dick.

[76Texan]

They just explain it!

[RazorOye]

It's not because there was no whistle.

This happened a couple of days ago in the Falcons game when Mike Smith threw the flag:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/M...udgment-111812

Originally Posted by Mike Pereira

There's a reason the NFL put this rule in. Just like a scoring play, the league purposely changed a rule to save the coaches from having to challenge a turnover so they would not risk losing a challenge and a timeout. The league was very clear in explaining to coaches that if they were to throw the challenge flag when they were not entitled to, they would be charged with a 15-yard penalty and the play would not be reviewed.

It's no different than throwing the challenge flag when you are out of time outs or if it inside of two minutes. In my opinion, they weren't going to overturn the ruling on the field anyway, so throwing the challenge flag was basically just a gift for the Cardinals.

Bonehead move by the coach.

They should know the rules.

[TexCanada]

Originally Posted by CloakNNNdagger

He was down, but there was no contact by the Lions D WHILE he was down. Therefore no whistle..

There was contact right before he was down though

[417Texan]

Lions coach screws up again lol

[Showtime100]

Originally Posted by CloakNNNdagger

He was down, but there was no contact by the Lions D WHILE he was down. Therefore no whistle..

But he was down BY contact.

[SmoochyTX]

They can blame their head coach for that. Ha!

[Dutchrudder]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha

[2012Champs]

It wasn't a bad call that gave us the td. It was a non call and Detroit mistake

[mariowillshine15]

This defense wants to get home and go eat.

[ChrisG]

This same thing happened last week (or the week before) with someone else. I cant remember what game it was though

[76Texan]

Lions only have their HC to blame for not remembering the rule