CHICAGO — Kyler Gordon thought he had done something for the first time in seven years: score a touchdown.
It would have been a score that could have changed the fortunes for the final Bears home game .
Late in the third quarter, with the Bears trailing by a field goal, Gordon forced a fumble by Seahawks tight end Pharoah Brown. As the ball was pried free, the third-year defensive back emerged from a scrum with the ball. He ran into the end zone, amidst a flood of confusion from both teams and the officials.
“I heard one of the refs say they weren’t watching,” Gordon said after the game. “That blew my mind. He said, ‘I don’t know what happened.’
“It’s sad, man. I haven’t had a touchdown since high school.”
The referees originally called the play a fumble, recovered by Gordon and taken 62 yards for a touchdown. Replay officials quickly determined that he had been downed by contact in the ruckus following the fumble and the Bears took over at their 38-yard line.
A touchdown would have been the difference between a win and what ended up being a 6-3 defeat — the Bears 10th straight loss of the season.
“Apparently someone touched my leg,” Gordon said. “They got to show me a replay before I believe it.”
The video — which Gordon will surely watch soon — will show he was touched, albeit not intentionally, but nonetheless, contact was made, marking him down.
A Bears offense that struggled the entire night couldn’t make that momentum-shifting play matter. They moved the ball just 1 yard on a 7-play drive that resulted in a punt.
“Yeah, it’s definitely difficult,” Gordon said. “You obviously want to get points off of something like that, or just at all. So yeah, it definitely is difficult, but I can’t control it.”
