No lawsuits have been filed (yet), but advertisements have been purchased.
Via ESPN.com, billboards have popped up in the Detroit area showing a referee wearing a cheesehead hat and jamming a fist into his chin.
The billboards, which protest a pair of illegal hands to the face penalties that fueled Green Bay’s come-from-behind win on Monday night, were purchased by the same anonymous group of fans that have leased billboards objecting to bad calls or free-agent defections in the past. Three times in 2015 the group funded roadway messages regarding more bad things that have happened to a long-suffering franchise and fan base.
“That real?” Lions cornerback Justin Coleman said when seeing an image of the billboard on Wednesday, via ESPN.com. “My goodness. That’s creative, though.”
It’s also a great way to hammer home the message of accountability for a league that struggles with transparency when it comes to matters of this nature.