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Former Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech, and Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville is now a US Senator in Alabama after winning his election on Tuesday, and he’s voicing his support for the President during the entire election counting mess.
On Thursday night Tuberville sent out a tweet backing up the President’s argument that mail-in votes in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada should not be counted days after the election by using a football analogy to try to prove his point.
The election results are out of control. It’s like the whistle has blown, the game is over, and the players have gone home, but the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team’s side of the scoreboard.
— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) November 6, 2020
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale immediately called Tuberville’s tweet the worst football analogy of all-time.
This is the single worst football analogy I've ever seen https://t.co/lhhDubC6WT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 6, 2020
Jake Tapper went a step further in mocking Tuberville’s analogy by bringing up the coach’s worst year in Auburn.
This is inaccurate.
What the president is doing would be like if Coach Tuberville discussed the 2008 Auburn football season by only talking up his 5 victories and pretended the 7 losses — including that loss to Alabama, hooboy — didn't happen. https://t.co/4OycGQe1bS
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 6, 2020
Another way to look at it. Imagine if in the 2008 LSU game, Coach Tuberville tried to say the game was over at the half, when Tigers led 14-3.
Game actually ended with LSU victory 26-21.
So that declaration would have been premature and false.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 6, 2020