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The Dallas Cowboys got itself a huge first down on Sunday by way of the vaunted, yet rarely used, measuring device known as paper.
Here is the magical usage of paper to determine if the Cowboys earned a first down or not:
The closest measurement you will EVER see.
First down. pic.twitter.com/14v2lPxxVr
— Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC) December 18, 2017
That is magical. A billion dollar industry using a literal piece of paper to determine the spot of the football. The football gods must love our need for weird variations of entertainment.
Dak Prescott, who ran the sneak that resulted in the paper becoming a thing, didn't think the officials needed to lower themselves to such a dramatic maneuver.
“I’ve never seen the referee pull out a card,” Prescott said, via the team's official website. “That was interesting, but I felt like I got it. I felt like it wasn’t that close. We got it anyways so it doesn’t matter, but that was interesting.”
Even Cowboys owner Jerry Jones got in on the fun.
“I know that we’ve all thought that cigarette paper is pretty thin – and that was down to cigarette paper thin,” said Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones. “Really, it’s amazing when that ball had to be placed, in the middle of all that mass, and they had to pick a spot and stick it down there on the grass – and that was the spot that they had to measure.”
For the not so much fun, Jerry Jones talked about admiring alleged serial awful person Jerry Richardson after the game.
