Referee Clete Blakeman, who’s now been tapped to officiate the Super Bowl, didn’t actually flip the coin the first time. He just threw it in the air and it fell to the ground without turning over. The Packers, who were on the losing side of that first toss, complained pretty quickly and pretty loudly about it.
Blakeman picked the coin up and actually flipped it the second time and the Packers lost that toss too.
After the game, Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers — who made the heads/tails call — complained about the second flip. He said he wanted a chance to change his original call, which was tails, for the second toss.