What Was Up With ESPN’s Horrible Camera Angle on a Field Goal Attempt Last Night?

It’s up, and it’s…it’s…uh, no good? Maybe? Shoot, we don’t know.

A production foul-up caused viewers to miss a field goal attempt during Monday night’s game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions.

Credit to Awful Announcing spotting the production snafu — in which Detroit was lining up for a field goal try late in the third quarter of their blowout loss to the Dallas. After a close-up of Detroit kicker Matt Prater, the camera cut to an overhead shot from the far side of AT&T Stadium.

But the teams were way on the other side of the field. The ball was snapped, the kick was up, and it sailed wide left.

Only, viewers at home had no way to know that. The kick was impossible to see from overhead angle.

Perhaps the behind-the-scenes folks at ESPN knew something that Matt Prater didn’t, and were just trying to spare Lions fans some grief.

Watch above — in as much as you can, anyway — via ESPN.

CORRECTION: In what is, admittedly, a pretty ironic error for a piece calling attention to a technical foul-up, we’ve made one of our own, having included an incorrect clip with a previous version of this post. The correct clip has now been posted.

[featured image via screengrab]

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