Vance roasts Walz over video game gaffe, needling former coach on football IQ

Ohio senator and Republican candidate for vice president JD Vance took aim at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's football IQ after the Democratic vice presidential nominee posted a confusing tweet during a livestream of himself playing Madden.

"They parade Tim Walz around as some kind of football genius as a former football coach, and maybe I know more about football than Gov. Tim Walz does," Vance said during a rally in Saginaw, Michigan on Tuesday.

The comments come after Walz teamed up with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to livestream a session of the two playing the Madden NFL video game against each other, an event that was reportedly an effort by the campaign to widen its appeal among young male voters.

TIM WALZ FUMBLES COMMON FOOTBALL TERM, GETS SCORCHED ON SOCIAL MEDIA: 'YOU DON'T RUN A PICK 6!'

But it was a social media post made during the livestream by Walz, who worked as a defensive coordinator at Mankato West High School, that had many questioning the Minnesota governor's football knowledge, boasting on X that Ocasio-Cortez "could run a mean pick 6."

"And I can call an audible on the play," Walz continued in the post, which was subsequently deleted. "We both know that if you take the time to draw up a playbook, you're gonna use it."

Critics quickly seized on the post, noting that a "pick six" is not a play that you run but instead the result of a defensive player intercepting the ball and running it in for a touchdown, resulting in six points.