Lions Refuse To Take 'Coward's Way Out'
Helmets were being slammed against the locker room floor. Equipment was being kicked, dressing stalls were being whacked and colorful language was flying through the air.
Then there were the other members of the Detroit Lions who were too stunned to even take off their pads. Rather than react, they sat in silence as if waiting long enough might cause the bad dream to end.
"There was a lot of visual and vocal frustration being let out," Lions receiver Nate Burleson(notes) said.
Just minutes before, a victory over the Chicago Bears had been snatched when what appeared to nearly everyone to be a final-minute, go-ahead touchdown catch by Calvin Johnson(notes) was ruled, by the letter of the NFL law, to be an incomplete pass. That the refs were correct didn't ease the frustration.
