Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was met with a storm of boos from Texas football fans on Saturday as he tried to plug his legislation on ESPN’s “College GameDay.”
Cruz — who dropped by the college football show for a nearly 10-minute interview with Rece Davis — tried to navigate the less-than-warm welcome while attempting to sell the Protect College Sports Act, a bipartisan bill he co-authored set to limit transfers and put a “hard” cap on payments to athletes.
As the senator continued to try and use the program to get the bill to the end zone, Longhorns fans joined in a brutal message to the senator.
“Ted, you suck! Ted, you suck!” shouted the crowd as Cruz kept on talking.
Cruz, in response to a separate clip of the interview on X, dipped into his football vocabulary to defend the appearance.
“Whole crowd came on a blitz this morning, I stayed in the pocket. Never flinched,” he claimed.
“What curse?” wrote Cruz in another post to X alongside a snap of him and Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey at the game.
