Donald Trump’s big NFL moment turned awkward when a Fox Sports commentator caught him flat-footed with a question about his high school football record.

The president—attending the Washington Commanders’ 44–22 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, the first regular-season NFL game a sitting president has attended in nearly 50 years—joined Fox broadcasters Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma in the booth for a brief, supposedly lighthearted chat. It didn’t stay that way for long.

Albert opened by reminiscing about Trump’s playing days at New York Military Academy, where he suited up from 1959 to 1964—four years before a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels helped him avoid service in Vietnam. “I played tight end,” Trump recalled. “But I mean, it was not quite football like this. It was a littl

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