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Duck Dynasty Star (Willie R) Weighs in on Cruz 'Basketball Ring' Gaffe
Fox Business ^ | April 27, 2016 | Henry Fernandez

Posted on 04/27/2016 11:17:00 AM PDT by xzins

Willie Robertson...“Under a Ted Cruz administration, every home is going to have a basketball ring, a football net and a hockey glove,” Robertson told host Stuart Varney.

The Texas senator was in Knightsville, Indiana, at the gym where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed. Cruz referenced how much he loved Hoosiers and added, “The amazing thing is, that basketball ring in Indiana, it's the same height as it is in New York City and every other place in this country.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazing; basketball; basketballhoop; basketballring; basketballrings; bobbyknight; dukakisdrivesatank; footballnet; hockeyglove; indiana
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To: xzins

Cubanadians don’t know basketball


21 posted on 04/27/2016 11:36:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Nifster

I like me some (good) peanut butter pie, too, but....American as ________pie (fill in the blank)


22 posted on 04/27/2016 11:36:39 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes

Do you know how “mocking” works? Ted Cruz called the basketball hoop a basketball ring. Willie Robertson made up stupid fake sports equipment to mock Ted Cruz.


23 posted on 04/27/2016 11:37:20 AM PDT by fulltlt
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That’s the problem with having a mixed up childhood


24 posted on 04/27/2016 11:38:23 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

and Bobby Knight is to Trump as Goofball Beck is to Cruz


25 posted on 04/27/2016 11:40:54 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

How many national NCAA basketball titles does Beck have?

How many national titles at anything does Beck have?


26 posted on 04/27/2016 11:44:42 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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What if Cruz shows up today for his announcement in a race car with a big sticker on the side saying I drive for Jesus ?

LOL. After yesterday anything is possible.


27 posted on 04/27/2016 11:44:58 AM PDT by Busta Rhymes
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To: xzins

Basketball is to Indiana

as

Football is to Texas....................


28 posted on 04/27/2016 11:57:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: xzins

Nah, He meant basketball goal.........................post...................


29 posted on 04/27/2016 11:58:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: fulltlt

Yes, I know how mocking works.

Yes, I know Willie made up stupid fake sports equipment to mock Ted Cruz.

But he didn’t make up ‘hockey glove’. Every hockey player wears gloves. Integral piece of equipment to a hockey player. Fail.


30 posted on 04/27/2016 11:59:13 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (FreeRepublic will rise from the trashes!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Preparation H wanted to use Cash’s song for a commercial.
He turned them down.................B^)


31 posted on 04/27/2016 11:59:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: xzins

Oh I know!
I know!
Pick me!

There’s no “A” in “ ‘Murican. “


32 posted on 04/27/2016 12:08:23 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: xzins

Everybody flubs a line now and then, but to flub one regarding basketball in Indiana was awkward.


33 posted on 04/27/2016 12:13:14 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: MrEdd

You get the prize. A one week paid vacation to Murica!


34 posted on 04/27/2016 12:15:11 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes

35 posted on 04/27/2016 12:16:58 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: RegulatorCountry

As a minister I get numerous opportunities to louse up lines in public. It happens.

Basketball ring is unusual in that there’s no natural alternative phrase that would make your brain/tongue come up with ‘ring’.

It’s like something you’d expect a foreign speaker of English to say as they hunted for an appropriate English word to describe what they could see in their mind’s eye.

Basketball as a 3rd language


36 posted on 04/27/2016 12:19:26 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

“Something tells me that Cruz hasn’t once in his life played a pickup game of basketball.”

_____________________________________________

I respectfully disagree.

Cruz plays in pickup games, even when he isn’t picked for a team.

Then his team gets crushed 108 to 15, but he plays to the buzzer anyway.


37 posted on 04/27/2016 12:20:35 PM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Red Badger

Lol


38 posted on 04/27/2016 12:20:45 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Remind me never to have you write me a glowing endorsement.

:>)


39 posted on 04/27/2016 12:22:03 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

I don’t get the reference to the basketball hoop being same height in New York as it is in Indiana. Did anybody say New York used a different height?


40 posted on 04/27/2016 12:22:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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