Vance jokes about moving Ohio State-Notre Dame game after inauguration
Vice President-elect JD Vance says he was just joking about skipping the inauguration in order to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes play in the college football national championship game, but the Ohio senator added he's fantasizing about the match-up being postponed by a day.
"Man, I really wish they could move the game until Tuesday," Vance said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Ohio State University is poised to play the University of Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship game in Atlanta on Jan. 20 — the same day as the presidential inauguration. The 40-year-old Vance is an Ohio State alumnus.
Asked by Fox News's Shannon Bream if there's "some kind of executive power to move the game," Vance replied with a grin, "Trust me, I've asked. Apparently not."
But, he told Bream, his social media post about skipping the inaugural festivities for the football face-off was said in jest.
In a Friday post on the social platform X, Vance wrote, "Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game."
"I assure you, that was a joke. I will be there doing my constitutional duty and swearing in as the 50th vice president of the United States," he said Sunday.
But he then made an appeal: "If you're watching this show and you have the power [to move the game], I'd really like to watch the Buckeyes."
"I don't want to be at the inaugural ball, like, staring at my phone because we're watching Ohio State versus Notre Dame. So let's move that game," he said.
"But if not, I'll be rooting for the Buckeyes in spirit."
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