For the first time since 1970, the Detroit Lions wore their white jerseys at home. It was a fitting metaphor, donning the traditional road uniforms despite playing at Ford Field with the Dallas Cowboys in town.
The game and the stadium had the feel of a Cowboys home game. Allowing them to wear their dark blue jerseys was an appropriate gesture by the Lions. The broadcast feed of the game proved time and again that the Ford Field crowd was predominately rooting for Dallas, not Detroit.
The eruption of cheers when Tony Pollard scored the Cowboys’ first touchdown was an Iron Maiden concert compared to the coffee house open-mic night reaction Bo Scarbrough’s opening TD for the Lions generated.
Cowboys fans are everywhere, that’s no secret. And the Lions haven’t exactly given the home fans much to be excited about lately, going well beyond not having Matthew Stafford in the lineup. But it’s still jarring to hear Ford Field be so loud in support of the opponent and not the Lions.
