{"id":1498816,"date":"2022-05-31T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498816"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:00:35","slug":"white-house-punts-when-asked-about-bidens-apparent-navy-football-fib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-punts-when-asked-about-bidens-apparent-navy-football-fib\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Punts When Asked About Biden\u2019s Apparent Navy Football Fib"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-punts-when-asked-about-bidens-apparent-navy-football-fib%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\">White House<\/a> punted Tuesday when asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">President Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s apparent football fib.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told graduating Midshipmen at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/naval-academy\">U.S. Naval Academy<\/a>\u00a0Friday that he spurned an invitation to the\u00a0venerable military institution back in 1965 because future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nfl\">NFL Hall of Fame Roger Staubach<\/a> blocked his path to gridiron glory. But as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-football-fib-roger-staubach-blocked-his-path-at-navy\">The Daily Wire reported<\/a> Saturday, nothing about the claim adds up. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed about the claim Tuesday and ducked the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not see that part of the speech,\u201d Jean-Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q: &#8220;Joe Biden was born in 1942, graduated from Delaware in 1965. In his address, he said he was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1965. Was he?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre: &#8220;I did not see that part of the speech.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KGfbzQiGvg\">pic.twitter.com\/KGfbzQiGvg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1531717566468587520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his speech,\u00a0Biden said he was \u201cappointed to the Academy in 1965,\u201d but passed on Navy and went to the University of Delaware to pursue pigskin prominence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t come to the Academy because I wanted to be a football star,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd you had a guy named Staubach and Bellino here. So I went to Delaware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One problem with the story is that\u00a0Biden would\u2019ve been 23 in 1965 and graduated from the University of Delaware that same year. There\u2019s also no evidence he ever declined a spot at Navy, and he did not play varsity football at Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Staubach and Joe Bellino, the only two Navy players to win the Heisman trophy, were gone by 1965. Staubach also graduated in 1965, and went off to fight in Vietnam before coming home and having a storied career with the Dallas Cowboys. Bellino was a halfback who graduated in 1961, also fought in Vietnam, and had a brief career in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was a pretty good wide receiver at Wilmington\u2019s Archmere Academy, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/the-story-of-joe-bidens-high-school-football-heroics-202613291.html\">once catching three touchdown passes<\/a>\u00a0from quarterback Bill Peterman during their 1-6 junior year. During his 1960 senior year at Archmere, with a new coach, Biden scored 10 touchdowns in eight games and the team went undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn almost any group I was the leader,\u201d Biden later wrote in his autobiography. \u201cI was the leading scorer on our undefeated and untied football team my senior year, and I didn\u2019t lack for confidence on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Biden took heat for telling what seemed to be a tall football tale about playing for the University of Delaware against Ohio University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here in 1963, and I had to go back, I just double checked my memory \u2014 you know, you get my age and you\u2019re not so sure of it, you know, your glory days look more glorious than they really were and all that, so we went back on the Internet and I just want you to know, I came here in October 1963, and we beat you Bobcats 29-12,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121221225751\/http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/10\/16\/14489712-fact-check-bidens-too-tall-football-tale\">subsequent fact-check<\/a>\u00a0determined that Biden had only briefly been on the school\u2019s freshman football team during the 1961 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden DID play on the 1961 University of Delaware freshman team, but did not finish out the season in order to earn a letter,\u201d Delaware\u00a0Sports Information Director Scott Selheimer said in 2012. \u201cHe later came out for the team in the spring of 1963 and took part in practices, but did not end up playing varsity football in the fall of\u00a01963 when the official competition season takes place. Thus he was not listed on the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An aide to Biden at the time later clarified that the then-vice president meant he had gone to Ohio to cheer for Delaware, not actually play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice President went to Athens with the University of Delaware football team to cheer,\u201d the aide said. \u201cAs he makes clear in his statement, he played football, but not during the fall of his junior year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House punted Tuesday when asked about President Joe Biden\u2018s apparent football fib. Biden told graduating Midshipmen at the\u00a0U.S. Naval Academy\u00a0Friday that he spurned an invitation to the\u00a0venerable military institution back in 1965 because future NFL Hall of Fame Roger Staubach blocked his path to gridiron glory. 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