For being a self-proclaimed 49ers football fan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sure doesn’t seem to know much about former San Fransisco quarterback Joe Montana, mistakenly saying the Hall of Famer wore the jersey number 14.
The California Congresswoman derailed her weekly press conference to talk about sports on Thursday morning, after a reporter asked her to predict the score in the upcoming 49ers playoff game.
“All of these questions are just subterfuge to get around to sports, right?” Pelosi joked, raising her right arm to show off charms on her football bracelet. “I’ll just put my bracelet right out there. Joe Montana’s jersey, number 14.”
During his time with the 49ers, Montana wore the number 16 on his jersey. Even after the left the team, playing instead for the Kansas City Chiefs, he did not wear the number 14.
Pelosi then seemingly realized her error.
“Well, anyway,” she said with a laugh, getting back onto the topic of unemployment insurance for a time.
Shortly, the Congresswoman circled back around to the playoff chances of her 49ers, who face the Seattle Seahawks on Jan. 19. Pelosi then mistakenly confused the Washington state team with the Washington, D.C., team, the Redskins.
“The Washington … Reds- … Seahawks fans are a feisty lot,” she said, adding that their level of noise would be a factor in the outcome of the matchup.
But Pelosi felt her team would have a good shot, especially thanks to 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
“We like our quarterback,” the House Minority Leader said. “Like the tattoos, big arms — the whole deal.”
The House Minority Leader has a history of talking about sports during press conferences. In Nov. 2012, after Pelosi’s baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, won the World Series in the end of October, the Congresswoman spent five minutes of a 14-minute press conference talking about the team’s championship.
