Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was widely mocked for fumbling a common football term in a now-deleted social media post that showed the governor on a livestream playing a sports video game with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
“@AOC can run a mean pick 6 — and I can call an audible on a play,” Walz wrote on X on Sunday while promoting a clip of him playing a video game of Madden on Twitch with the congresswoman in an effort to appeal to young male voters.
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He added in the now-deleted social media post, “And we both know that if you take the time to draw up a playbook, you’re gonna use it.”
Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign responded on X with mockery of the former high school football coach.
Tampon Tim is such a dork.
You’d think a so-called football coach would be aware that you don’t run a pick 6!
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 28, 2024
“You’d think a so-called football coach would be aware that you don’t run a pick 6!” the campaign ripped Walz on Monday.
The term “pick 6” refers to when an interception is made by a defensive player and subsequently returned for a touchdown.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) also questioned the governor’s knowledge of football at a campaign rally in Wasau, Wisconsin, on Monday.
“You don’t run a pick-six, you run the West Coast offense or the spread offense,” Vance said to the audience at the rally. “It made me realize that even though they say Tim Walz was a football coach, I think I know more about football than Tim Walz. And it’s appropriate ’cause I think my running mate, Donald J. Trump, knows more about working at McDonald’s than Kamala Harris does.”
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“I’m not sure Kamala ever worked at McDonald’s and now I’m unsure if Walz ever coached football,” journalist Mark Hemingway quipped on X.
“Yes, the classic coaching decision to “run a mean pick 6″ during a game. That’s a phrase that has literally never been uttered in the history of football,” OutKick journalist David Hookstead reacted. “Everything about this tweet is cringe, embarrassing and stupid. As a young kid can tell you, a coach doesn’t call a pick six. If they could, it’d be the only play called by every defense on the planet every single play of the game.”
