Because the Texas Longhorns and Ohio State Buckeyes put together to go head-to-head in Friday’s Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, some sports activities followers have a pointed message to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: Keep distant.
Their messages come after the senator and Vice President-elect JD Vance, an Ohio native and Buckeyes supporter, agreed to a pleasant wager on social media. Beneath the foundations of the wager, which Cruz initiated, the Republican affiliated with the shedding faculty (Ohio State College for Vance and the College of Texas at Austin for Cruz) should ship meals and beer from their house state to the winner whereas carrying the victorious crew’s jersey.
Cruz posted the phrases of the wager to X on Tuesday, and Vance shortly agreed to take part.
“Alright which Texas ice cream should I have Ted bring with the Buckeyes win?” Vance responded in a matter of minutes, including in a follow-up submit, “To be clear, @tedcruz, you’re on!”
Cruz responded: “The one potential reply is Blue Bell ice cream. Plus Texas BBQ & Shiner Bock beer. However, it gained’t matter as a result of the Horns are gonna win! Texas by 5.
For sports activities followers, this sport is of the utmost significance because the winner will go on to face the winner of the Orange Bowl for the faculty soccer nationwide championship. And there may be, after all, an argument that Ohio State and UT-Austin alumni ought to care concerning the sport, too. There’s only one drawback: Cruz, who as soon as in contrast UT-Austin’s soccer crew to teenage ladies due to a poor efficiency, is the son of a Longhorn, however in any other case, he has no agency ties to the college.
Maybe most significantly, although, he’s cursed.
Texas followers shortly drew consideration to this after information of the wager went viral. Upon listening to concerning the wager, many followers on social media tried to remind the just lately reelected senator of the so-called “Cruz Curse,” a perception amongst some sports activities followers that Cruz’s presence at video games causes Texas-based groups to lose.
“JD, this man has zero authority to wager on behalf of the Texas Longhorns and should be blocked and reported,” one Austin-based parody account posted to X.
“STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE COTTON BOWL,” one other Austin-based account warned Cruz.
Earlier than these assaults on Cruz, a current Change.org petition sought to ban Cruz from all UT-Austin sporting occasions, claiming the transphobic and typically loathsome senator is “just pla[i]n bad luck” and brings “downright sinister energy” to video games he attends.
Despite the fact that the net marketing campaign amassed solely about 2,200 signatures, the signees’ level is effectively taken. Cruz has attended a number of essential video games the place Texas groups have fallen wanting expectations.
In October, the Houston Astros misplaced to the Detroit Tigers whereas Cruz was in attendance. Then there’s the Longhorn school soccer playoff sport wherein they went up in opposition to the Washington Huskies. Once more, Texas misplaced—and, to no shock, Cruz was there. And the senator was additionally blamed for jinxing the Houston Rockets in the course of the 2018 NBA playoffs.
Somewhat than play it cool and shrug it off, Cruz decried “dishonest press hacks blaming me for the Longhorn’s heartbreaking loss” final January, earlier than itemizing a number of video games he’d attended the place, really, Texas groups didn’t lose, thanks very a lot.
It’s considerably laughable that amid turmoil in Washington, D.C., Cruz and Vance are specializing in sports activities. Don’t they’ve extra essential issues to handle? Or have Republicans already forgotten that its members appear to have no clue tips on how to cross President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda?
Sarcastically, for all his time posting on-line, Cruz is considerably in the midst of the D.C. infighting. Whereas Trump and, by default, Vance have inspired congressional Republicans to cross one sweeping invoice containing mainly Trump’s entire agenda—from stringent immigration measures to tax reform and power coverage—Cruz has stated that this probably gained’t occur and has advocated for passing two or extra smaller payments.
However such issues seem to finish up on the
again burner throughout soccer season. Priorities! For his half, Vance particularly appears to love utilizing soccer as an excuse to mingle with among the worst individuals on the planet.
The stakes are particularly excessive as a result of the Longhorns are at the moment a six-point underdog for Friday’s sport. So, please, Cruz, from one Texan to a different, keep far, distant from the stadium and don’t spoil our possibilities of successful but once more.
