The Detroit Lions came out sharp to open Thursday night against the Cowboys, but it didn’t take long for the first bit of controversy to show up. In the first quarter, the Lions sacked Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott in the end zone. And what happened next was pretty interesting.

Jack Campbell came clean on a blitz, wrapped Prescott up, and drove him backward. The call on the field was a safety, giving the Lions a 5–3 lead. Simple enough. And since every scoring play gets an automatic review, it looked like the kind of ruling that would stand unless something obvious appeared on replay.

But that “something obvious” eventually did.

For a safety, any part of the ball must be across the goal line and into the end zone when the quarterback is ruled down. If the nose of the ball is still ou

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