Things were not going the Dallas Cowboys way during their wild card matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
For starters, the team was getting rolled big time headed into the fourth quarter, losing 23-7 headed into the final 15 minutes of play. Then, the glare from the sun impacted wide receiver Cedrick Wilson’s ability to catch a pass in the second quarter and everyone had jokes. And finally, the Cowboys punted the ball off their gigantic scoreboard and had to re-do it.
In the second quarter, punter Bryan Anger got enough lift on his kick that the ball smacked into the underside of the Cowboys huge scoreboard, causing the ball to bounce well short of its intended target thanks to the redirect.
Bryan Anger's punt hit the jumbotron 😱
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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen kickers and punters smack the Cowboys’ incredibly ostentatious scoreboard — which, at its largest, is 160 feet wide and 72 feet tall — and it definitely won’t be the last. Still, for it to come after a calamity of errors on Dallas’ side is just more salt in the wound.
