Kyler Gordon thought for a moment he’d returned a fumble 62 yards for a touchdown Thursday night.
Officials let him return the ball into the end zone, too, though not all of them actually ran down the field with the Bears cornerback.
Eventually, replay showed that Gordon was down by contact when he recovered the ball. Gordon’s touchdown was instead merely a recovery of Pharaoh Brown’s fumble in the third quarter of an eventual 6-3 loss to the Seahawks.
“Apparently someone touched my leg,” Gordon said.
Gordon claimed one official on the field said he didn’t see what happened.
“I heard one of the refs say, 'I wasn't even watching,'” he said. “That actually blew my mind. He said, 'I don't know what happened.'”
He suspected while running into the end zone the play might be reversed.
“I thought I'd be able to get a free one,” he said. “I would just go to the house and celebrate. Everyone, the whole crowd got loud.”
It wasn’t to be.
“It's sad,” he said. “I haven't had a touchdown since high school.”
