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Posted: 2023-01-23T12:45:53Z | Updated: 2023-01-23T23:16:52Z Greg Abbott Snark-Tweets About Dallas Kicker And Gets It Kicked Back In His Face | HuffPost

Greg Abbott Snark-Tweets About Dallas Kicker And Gets It Kicked Back In His Face

The GOP Texas governor's joke about the Cowboys' Brett Maher didn't land the way he wanted.
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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.

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.

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