https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1975371
“Vice President Joe Biden Caught In Lie About Playing Football?” (UPDATE)
10/17/2012
Draft-dodger Joe got a deferment for asthma, but he never mentions it in his book and nobody remembers him having it…
Yet he also claimed he played football at the Univ of Delaware, which he didn’t:
“Biden lied when he recently told campaign supporters that he played football for the University of Delaware. They say he never played a down and never was on the playing roster.
Biden’s press secretary, Kendra Barkoff, emailed The Huffington Post a quote from Delaware coaching great Tubby Raymond — an assistant during Biden’s time — reading, “He was on the team!”
But the Gateway Pundit is piling on with claims that Biden’s tale of gridiron glory fumbled with the truth in a big way. In a story titled “The Longest Yarn,” the website recounted Biden’s speech at a campaign stop on Sept. 8 in Athens, Ohio. He told the crowd that the last time he visited Athens, on Oct. 19, 1963, he was playing for Delaware against Ohio University. He added that he nearly got arrested for walking into a women’s dormitory.
The site wrote that an examination of old school yearbooks debunks Biden’s story, because he is not listed as playing football in any of the years he attended (1961-65). It also cited a Biden interview in a 1984 Delaware yearbook in which he mentioned playing intramural football (flag football) — but nothing about playing intercollegiate tackle football.”
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