Brian Fallon attempts to make popular vote joke about the Super Bowl, punches self in the groin instead

Greg P. | 10:50 PM on February 05, 2017

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/828446496471269376

At 9:03 p.m. with the Atlanta Falcons sitting a big lead in the Super Bowl, Hillary Clinton’s former spox Brian Fallon decided to make a joke, riffing off of a pro-Trump talking point that Trump won the popular vote if you excluded California and New York:

The Patriots are winning if you exclude California and New York.

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) February 6, 2017

Oops.

Falcons beat a team from Green Bay to get here but you wouldn't know where that is. https://t.co/2LkUK4YLsJ

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2017

New England even won the popular vote

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017

To put the Patriots comeback in perspective:

New England's odds heading into the Ryan fumble: 249:1, per ESPN.
Trump's odds were 40x better heading into Election Night.

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017

And it wasn’t just Fallon who had egg on his face. Check out the data folks and their predictions as the game proceeded:

99.6% for ATL at one point, per ESPN. IDK much about these football models, but that's much crazier than Trump/Clinton pic.twitter.com/eOdAwwOPp8

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 6, 2017