The Lions’ kickoff bounced inside the goal line and looked like it’d be easily scooped up by return man Ty Montgomery for a touchback. But the ball checked up and went backward, onto the field. That sent Montgomery into a panic, as a kickoff is a live ball, which means that if a Detroit player had been in the area to recover, it would have been Lions ball inside the 5-yard-line. So, Montgomery chased the ball around like he was Rocky and it was a chicken and quickly fell on it. But he did so with his feet out of bounds. And therein lies the rub.

Because even though the ball was in bounds, Montgomery’s feet being out of bounds meant that, by rule, the kickoff itself is considered to have gone out of bounds. So instead of Packers ball on their own 3, the ball came out to the 40 like an ordinary kickoff that squibs out of bounds.