Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joked about beleaguered Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher on Sunday, prompting snide clapback from critics as Dallas lost to the host San Francisco 49ers in a divisional playoff game.
Maher failed to make his fifth extra point of the postseason after missing a record four in a row the previous week. This one was blocked, but the attempt appeared off-target anyway.
Abbott decided to weigh in on Twitter. “I swear, I can kick as good as the Dallas Cowboys kicker,” quipped the state leader, who’s been using a wheelchair since a tree fell on him in 1984.
I swear, I can kick as good as the Dallas Cowboys kicker.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 23, 2023
Detractors split the uprights with political mockery of Abbott, whose antiabortion laws and anti-immigrant stunts ― plus failure to keep Texans warm in a 2021 winter storm ― provided plenty of fodder.
Yeah...when that Winter storm hit, you kicked that power right off! pic.twitter.com/0Rq31ECxvz
— Tommy's Co-Worker (@TooDeepNot2Deep) January 23, 2023
Worried about the gridiron when you need to be worried about the power grid
— DJ Hella Yella 🏁 (@djhellayella) January 23, 2023
The kicker for the Cowboys would not send innocent people in busses to cities with temperatures below zero
— pugmom1959🇺🇸🏳️🌈💪👅🐈🐧🐼🐨📷 (@pugmom1959) January 23, 2023
Well, how about you do that instead of being governor. I could get behind that.
— An American Wookiee in Washington (@Raytown_12) January 23, 2023
Great, can you be a better governor instead of focusing on being a comedian
— skinny little missy (@_jomckinney) January 23, 2023
The kicker would make a better Governor, so maybe consider a swap?
— Bridget (@bridgetthemc) January 23, 2023
You are excellent at letting hundreds of thousands of Texans get kicked off Medicaid. So there is that
— Scream the Truth 🇺🇸 (@Merry_Hippie) January 23, 2023
In more important news... pic.twitter.com/pKc4QfbxyA
— Dark Brandon's Auntie Fa 💙 (@deejaydee) January 23, 2023
No, you ship human beings — sad, suffering human beings including women, children and even babies — clear across the country into the dead of the winter as if they were mere cattle. You even have the audacity to brag/laugh about your adventure with malicious glee. A Catholic?😢
— Babu Thomas (@babuthomas100) January 23, 2023
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