President Joe Biden was in Wisconsin recently and made a fairly interesting statement regarding the Green Bay Packers.
During a trip to the swing state, the 81-year-old president boasted of his connections to Wisconsin sports fans.
However, that connection has been disproven on social media.
President Joe Biden Caught In Lie About The Green Bay Packers

According to Steven Nelson of The New York Post:
President Biden blurted Wednesday that one of his childhood Catholic school teachers was drafted by the Green Bay Packers — an assertion disproven by a simple check of publicly available NFL records.
“My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Reilly — last name — and he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers,” Biden said in Racine, south of Milwaukee.
“And he decided to become a priest before that, so he didn’t go. But every single solitary Monday that Green Bay won, we got the last period of the day off.”
According to Pro Football Reference, the Packers have only drafted a single person with the last name “Riley,” “Reily,” or “Reilly” since the NFL began its annual college draft in 1936.
University of Colorado quarterback Maurice “Tex” Reilly was selected with the 202nd overall pick in the 22nd round of the 1947 draft — after his education was interrupted by World Word II, during which he commanded bombing missions over the Pacific, according to a 2002 article in the Denver Post.
Instead of playing professional football, the Bronze Star recipient rejoined the US Air Force in October 1947 as a civil engineer and was deployed to Japan and later Spain.
Reilly also served as an instructor at bases in Ohio and Alabama before retiring as a major general, according to a military biography.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Biden previously told a different version of the Packers story, describing how Archmere Academy’s headmaster, Father Justin E. Diny, would dismiss students early in celebration of Packers victories.
Joe Biden’s brain is broken:
“My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley LAST NAME, and he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers.”pic.twitter.com/yIlB3ZLOeR
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) May 8, 2024
No matter your political affiliation (Wisconsin Sports Heroics doesn’t have one), this was an interesting statement to say the least.
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