A group of angry Lions fans are using billboards in the Detroit area to call NFL referees out.
The billboards depict the referees doing a "hands to the face" call while wearing a giant cheesehead, indicating they were Packers fans.
@Lions i seen this billboard on the way home. #DetroitVsEverybody #OnePride pic.twitter.com/xJzYR0EibC
— gamal alriyashi (@gamalalriyashi) October 15, 2019
ultimate petty - our chopper is over one of 7 billboards a group of anonymous Lions fans mad about the game bought to express frustrations
— Kellie Rowe (@kellierowe) October 17, 2019
locations:
275 S of 10 Mile (pictured)
NB I-75 & Westminister
94 S of 23 Mile
96 E of Milford
75 & Waterman
94 & Middlebelt
94 N of Masonic pic.twitter.com/GTskUMoFW5
According to some reports, there are at least seven billboards around the metro Detroit area. The billboards are expected to run until the end of the week.
The Lions lost a heartbreaker Monday against the Packers, with the NFL later admitting its late fourth-quarter call on Trey Flowers for hands to the face shouldn't have been a foul. It cost the Lions 15 yards and resulted in the Packers getting a field goal to win the game, 23-22.
If anything, Packers LT David Bakhtiari had HIS hands in Trey Flowers' face on these two plays #DETvsGB pic.twitter.com/exnuYckIJK
— Kevin Boilard (@247KevinBoilard) October 15, 2019
It's not the first time Lions fans have used billboards to express their unhappiness. When former Lions player Ndamukong Suh was up for free agency, several digital billboards reading only "$uh?" popped up around the city.