Cowboys are laughed for erasing the scoreboard during a 47-9 blowout loss against Lions

They argue that the winners write history. But the Dallas Cowboys wanted to defy revered maxim after Sunday’s 47-9 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions.

The Cowboys oddly seemed to wipe out the score on the team’s notoriously large jumbotron in a social media post meant for crowing about the 93,644 attendees at AT&T stadium. And this was too much for a fan crowd leaving its worst home loss since Jerry Jones acquired Cowboys ownership in 1989.

One X fan wondered, “Did Jerry Jones hire a scoreboard blur technician?”

“Why is the scoreboard censised?” Another fan asked, to which one response answered: “‘It’s not safe for kids.'”

Many others noted that although Sunday’s turnout was noteworthy, it’s merely more people seeing a very terrible Cowboys team slumped to 0-3 at home on the season.

In an X post crowing about the 93,644 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium, the Cowboys curiously appeared to blur out the score on the team’s famously oversized jumbotron

The blurred scoreboard did not go unnoticed as many fans mocked the team online

’93K let folks down,’ one admirer said.

For the Cowboys (3-3), Dak Prescott threw two interceptions in the worst home defeat since 1988. They became the first team since at least 2000 to trail by 14 or more points at halftime in four consecutive games on their home turf, playoffs included.

Detroit led 27-6 at the break, leaving the Dallas halftime deficit at AT&T Stadium at 110-35 overall going back to a wild-card playoff loss to Green Bay in January.

Dallas’s 167 points are third highest in a four-game home stretch in NFL history; the current downturn follows a 16-game home winning run second-longest in team history.

Dallas Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones stands on the field during warmups on Sunday

Dallas Cowboys fans look on late in the second half of Sunday’s 47-9 loss to the Detroit Lions

Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is on the field Sunday during warm-ups.

Late in the second half of Sunday’s 47-9 loss to the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys supporters gaze upon

‘I’m not a man to press the panic button,’ Prescott remarked. ‘You never get ready for it or consider that the way it happened today, here at home, once more. Now dropping three at home, a location we had been really excellent.

When the Cowboys had an opportunity to restore the lead in the first quarter, Brian Branch’s running play at the end zone marked Prescott’s first interception—and the first of five Dallas turnovers.

‘I felt we truly played the most complete game we have probably played here in a long time, if not the most since we have been here,’ said fourth-year Lions coach Dan Campbell, a former Dallas Cowboys tight end.

Jones said reporters following Sunday’s death he is “not considering” dismissing Mike McCarthy at this point.

Dallas is now entering a bye week before an October 27 game in Santa Clara with the San Francisco 49ers.