When Falcons coach Raheem Morris explained the decision to end Friday night’s preseason game after Lions safety Morice Norris suffered a potentially serious head/neck injury, Morris said he didn’t know whether the league approved of the move.

On Monday, Lions coach Dan Campbell made it clear that the plan went against the directive they had received from the powers-that-be.

Asked by a reporter to explain the type of instruction he received from the league after the Norris injury, Campbell said this:

“ Don’t do this to me, alright? So, Raheem and I agreed that that was what we were gonna do. We talked to, you know, [referee] Shawn Hochuli, [he] let us know the game is still on, and we communicated with each other. We told Shawn we’ll be taking knees and he said, ‘I understand,’ a

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