Senator Marco Rubio failed miserably trying to use NFL analogy on Twitter

Ryan Young
·Staff writer
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) attempted to use a football analogy on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon when he went on a four-tweet rant about multiple recounts taking place in Florida following the midterm elections earlier this month.

There was just one problem: It seems that Rubio doesn’t know what a field goal is.

United States Senator Marco Rubio attempted to use a football analogy in a tweet about the election recounts taking place in Florida on Tuesday. It didn’t go well. (Getty Images)
United States Senator Marco Rubio attempted to use a football analogy in a tweet about the election recounts taking place in Florida on Tuesday. It didn’t go well. (Getty Images)

Rubio attempted to compare the recounts to an NFL game that went down to a last-second field goal. Except he called it a “3 pt kick.”

Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum or how you feel about Rubio’s logic, Twitter quickly jumped to the logical conclusion that Rubio has watched very little — if any — football in his lifetime after reading his tweet.

After his lengthy career as a politician in Florida — a state that is home to three NFL teams and plenty of college programs in the heart of SEC and ACC country — you’d think that Rubio would have picked up some football lingo by now.

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