NFL fans have been calling out president Joe Biden on social media on Wednesday for this quite strange story about the Green Bay Packers. While the president was in Wisconsin this afternoon, he shared a rather strange story about his old professor who got drafted by the Packers.
Joe Biden Shares Story About Green Bay Packers
Biden revealed that his teacher supposedly passed up the opportunity to become a priest in favor of playing in the NFL for the Packers. It was rather a long rant in classic Biden fashion:
“I went to a Catholic high school in Delaware taught by the Norbertines priest from St. Norbert College…little town, little team called Green Bay. Now, here’s the deal, we were the only high school in Delaware who overwhelmingly rooted for Green Bay,” Biden said, via OutKick. “Not a joke, I’ll tell you why: Every single Sunday. Not only did they have great teams at the time, still do, but not only that, my theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley – last name. He had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers but decided to become a priest.
“He didn’t go, but every single solitary Monday that Green Bay won, we got the last period of the day off.”
Outkick then pointed out that Biden shared a different story about the Packers back in 2021 where he never mentioned anything about his old professor getting drafted by the team.
Biden starts rambling about a "theology professor" at his Catholic high school who (allegedly) "had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers" but "decided to become a priest" pic.twitter.com/f6GOUZhtff
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NFL Fans Calling Out Biden For Switching Stories
Biden appeared to have switched up his story just a little bit, and fans were quick to point out the difference in his stories. This was the first version of the story:
“I went to a Catholic boys school in Claymont, Delaware, taught by an order of priests called the Norbertines,” Biden said, via 620 WTMJ. “The Norbertines had their Abbey house in DePere. Every Sunday the Packers won, the headmaster, Father Justin E. Diny, would get on PA system and say, ‘Gentlemen no last period today.’
“He made everyone of us Packers fans. Besides I’m fearful I’ll go to hell if I don’t root for the Packers. Father Diny may come back. I can’t go against Father Diny. He’ll come out of his grave if he knew I was rooting for anybody else.”
Biden may just have wanted to spice up his story a little bit, but NFL fans were quick to say he was making it all up. Here are some of the best fan reactions:
“According to the All Time Green Bay Packers Draft pick list there is no record of a “Riley” or “Reilly” that fits his story. I think maybe his draft record was eaten by cannibals pro-football-reference.com/teams/gnb/draf Green Bay Packers Draft picks Seasons: 104 (1921 to 2024)”
“Biden told this fib before but he can’t even get his story straight. twitter.com/620wtmj/status “Every Sunday the Packers won, the headmaster … Father Justin E. Diny would get on PA system and say, ‘Gentlemen no last period today.'”
“All he does is tell his other people stories. Just stories and lies”
“Talk about throwing a Hail Mary”
“God, help our country.”