Pat McAfee Reveals How Biden SOTU Gaffe Shook the Sports World: ‘Lincoln Riley’s Dead?’

A minor gaffe by President Joe Biden during Thursday’s State of the Union address had Pat McAfee thinking one of college football’s top coaches suddenly died.

While Biden gave his address, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yelled at Biden to say the name of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old woman who was killed on the University of Georgia’s campus in February. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan immigrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, was arrested and charged with the killing. Greene, along with other members of the Republican Party, blame her death on Biden’s U.S. border policies.

In response, Biden said Riley’s name.

The only issue is it sounded more like he said “Lincoln Riley” – the head football coach at the University of Southern California.

“Lincoln” Riley?

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McAfee was stunned when he saw what everyone was talking about on social media.

“I saw somebody with a microphone last night addressing the entire nation,” he said on Friday’s episode of The Pat McAfee Show. “He made an announcement that Lincoln Riley was dead. I get on my phone after this event that we’re at and it’s Lincoln Riley and he’s trending all over. I click – ‘he’s dead.’ Lincoln Riley’s dead? Wait a second, who said that? The president? Lincoln Riley’s dead? How is this happening?

“I saw his name trending [so] I’m like, ‘Wait, he was just on the show.’ I was like, ‘What did Lincoln Riley do?'”

The first post he saw, McAfee continued, said that the coach was dead. He was initially taken aback before scrolling further and seeing the president’s remarks.

Watch above via ESPN