Fact Check: Did the Detroit Lions ‘Clown’ Their Opponent in a Blowout Win Against Dallas?

The Detroit Lions put on a show during Week 6 of the NFL season when they travelled to AT&T Stadium to play the Dallas Cowboys. The game was a rematch of a late regular season game during the 2023 season that included what may have been that season's largest controversy - an dispute between the team and officials as to whether an offensive lineman reported as an eligible receiver. The game was a loss for Detroit and impacted playoff seating.

Heading back to the 'scene of the crime' the Lions game to play, but did they also come to clown the home team? That was the talk of the football world following a 47-9 victory over 'Dem Boys.'

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones started the discussion with this postgame comment after what was the worst home loss of his long ownership tenure:

I think it was the just the feeling of the team having fun at our expense, Detroit having fun at our expense.

Despite the devastating loss of defensive star Aidan Hutchinson, the team had a ton of fun. But fun to the point of a lack of respect for the team across the field?

Perhaps Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson and 'Unc' Shannon Sharpe summed it up best on their show, Nightcap describing the scripted trick plays the Lions ran.

Ocho: The Detroit Lions were running stuff I haven't seen in years. They were doing trick plays I was doing when I was 8 years old.

Unc: Very disrespectful....We're on national television, we're gonna run a lateral to a tackle....

ESPN's Dan Orlovsky continues the theme with Shannon Sharpe and Steven A. Smith on First Take's Monday morning episode.

When you go to someone's place and embarrass them and clown them....They were up 30 and ran a hook-and-ladder to an offensive tackle on the 5-yard-line. That's clowning you in the NFL....That is saying we have absolutely zero respect for what you're doing as a football team.

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Even Lions fans in Texas got into the act. A viral video shows a Lions fan at AT&T Stadium wearing a David Montgomery jersey doing the Griddy around a Cowboys fan who was vomiting on the floor - we're linking to the video rather than embedding since there is throw-up in the still image, so caution if you don't want to see that.