In August, Bush was endorsed by Brady Quinn, formerly a Cleveland Browns quarterback.

Chris Christie

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Christie angered many Americans in January when he watched a Dallas Cowboys playoff game. How? He was sitting in Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones’ suite and hugged Jones when the Cowboys came away with a narrow, undeserved victory over the Detroit Lions.

Michigan voters, in particular, were upset with Christie. (Disclosure: I’m a Lions fan.)

Christie, the governor of New Jersey, says he’s been a Cowboys fan since he was a kid and Hall-of-Famer Roger Staubach was quarterbacking the team.

In May, Christie was exposed for having spent $83,000 in taxpayer dollars on concessions at MetLife Stadium, where the New York Giants and New York Jets play. Politically, it might be best for Christie to stay away from football.

Ted Cruz

“Tom Brady was framed,” Cruz told a Massachusetts audience in June about the “Deflate-gate” controversy. “I have it on good authority that Hillary Clinton did it. Why do you think she deleted her emails?”

Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, lost a bet to Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., when the Cowboys lost to the Green Bay Packers in the 2015 playoffs. For losing the bet, Cruz gave Baldwin Blue Bell ice cream and Shiner Bock beer.

Carly Fiorina

What do Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have in common? A lot, according to Fiorina.

“Maybe Tom Brady learned how to wipe his phone clean by watching Hillary Clinton wipe her server clean,” Fiorina said in a July radio interview with a Boston station. “I mean, hey, if the secretary of state can just wipe out all relevant information on an investigation involving her, maybe Tom Brady decided, ‘I can just wipe out all the text messages as an investigation swirls about me?'”

Lindsey Graham

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham played on the football team at D.W. Daniel High School in South Carolina. Evidently, his primary position was bench-warmer. A childhood friend of Graham told The State Graham played “three plays” during his entire high school football career.

Mike Huckabee

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Huckabee used to do radio for high school football games in Arkansas.

In 2009, Huckabee visited Mississippi State University and was presented with an autographed football signed by members of the football team.

Bobby Jindal

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In high school, Jindal worked concessions at Louisiana State University football games. Although he never studied there, Jindal still attends LSU games.

Jindal says he’s been a lifelong New Orleans Saints fan. “This team has done so much to lift the morale of our community after Katrina,” Jindal said after the team was caught up in a bounty scandal in 2012. “I continue to be an unapologetic Saints fan. … They’re still our team.”

John Kasich

When Kasich was endorsed by Gov. Robert Bentley, R-Ala., the pair traded footballs signed by prominent college football coaches from their states.

In August, Kasich raised the issue of excessive salaries for college football coaches. “How do we pay a college football coach $4 million a year and pay our teachers peanuts?” Kasich said. Urban Meyer, the football coach at Ohio State University, Kasich’s alma mater, gets paid $4.5 million per year.

Rand Paul

Paul played as a defensive back on the football team at Brazoswood High School in Texas.

Paul attended a football tailgate on Saturday as Iowa played Iowa State in an important rivalry game. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Scott Walker also attended the game.

Marco Rubio

Rubio played college football at now-defunct Tarkio College in Missouri. He played on both sides of the ball, as a wide receiver and as a defensive back.

Rubio is obsessed with the Dolphins and even married a former Dolphins’ cheerleader. Rubio watches every Dolphins game, though not necessarily live, according to the New York Times.

Growing up, Rubio had to wear leg braces to correct a knee ailment. He sometimes refused to wear them, so his father would call Rubio and pretend to be then-Dolphins head coach Don Shula to get Rubio to put them on.

Who can forget when he nailed a kid on the head with a football?

Donald Trump

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Trump also weighed in on the connections between Tom Brady’s Deflategate scandal and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. “They had no definitive proof against Tom Brady or #patriots. If Hillary doesn’t have to produce Emails, why should Tom? Very unfair!” Trump tweeted in May. On September 3, when Brady’s four-game suspension was overturned, Trump tweeted, “Congratulations to Tom Brady on yet another great victory- Tom is my friend and a total winner!”

Brady keeps a “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker and has been friends with Trump since 2002. However, Brady said he doesn’t know if he’ll vote for Trump.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is also a friend of Trump’s.

Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka says he likes Trump. “I think that he has the fire in his belly to make America great again and probably do it the right way,” Ditka said.

Trump owned the New Jersey Generals, a United State Football League Team, during the league’s brief existence in the 1980s. He attempted to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014 but failed.

Trump also played high school football at the New York Military Academy.

Scott Walker

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“I still have more wins in WI than Jay Cutler,” Walker tweeted in November 2014, after his beloved Packers beat the Chicago Bears, quarterbacked by Cutler. Walker has won three statewide elections in Wisconsin, beating back a recall attempt in 2012 in addition to gubernatorial election wins in 2010 and 2014.

Later that season, after Christie’s infamous hug, Walker tweeted out, “This is the type of owner I’ll be looking to hug after a #Packers win on Sunday,” with a picture of a Packers fan. The Packers are the only community-owned franchise in American professional sports. The Packers eventually beat the Cowboys in a close game, eliminating them from the playoffs.