With a trip to the NFC Divisional Round on the line, the stakes were higher than ever in the Wild Card matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles.
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Fans Irate With Officials During Packers, Eagles Game
The Green Bay Packers knew it would take a special effort to take down a goliath like the Eagles. And they had a nightmarish start after they fumbled the ball on the opening kickoff.
However, upon further review, the replay showed that despite fumbling on the kick return, the Packers appeared to have recovered the ball before a huge pileup ensued.
Packers recover the fumble yet the ball goes to the Eagles.
Rigged? 👀
— NFL Notifications (@NFLNotify) January 12, 2025
However, despite what looked like a clear recovery for Green Bay, the referees still awarded the Eagles with a fumble recovery, which led to fans on social media claiming that the game was rigged.
"Packers recovered. Screw by the rigged NFL," one fan said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"No helmet-to-helmet call, and somehow AFTER replay they can't see the recovery by Nixon.....s**t is rigged," another fan added.
Saquon Breaks Down Backwards Hurdle
The Philadelphia Eagles come into the playoffs as one of the NFL's as NFC East champs and one of the most feared teams in the field. That is largely thanks to the addition of star running back Saquon Barkley who nearly broke the single- season rushing record.
During the Eagles matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars earlier this season, Barkley caught a pass from quarterback Jalen Hurts and did something in the open field that fans had never seen before — he hurdled backward.
Amid all the hoopla surrounding his unreal hurdle, which has taken social media by storm, Barkley broke down his unreal play.
"What really happened was, I was going to hit a double spin," Barkley said. "I aborted it. I spun, I went to spin again, and I just like — it probably is going to take away how cool the play is — I thought he was going low, so I was just [thinking] I'll be cool if I did jump up. My body kind of took over."
Barkley's hurdle was undoubtedly one of the plays of the year. But Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni is willing to take it one step further, calling it the best play he's ever seen.
"It was the best play I've ever seen," Sirianni said, via 94 WIP's Eliot Shorr-Parks. "There's going to be kids all over the country and all over Philadelphia really [thinking] about that and trying to make that play...as they play backyard football or pee wee football.
