As the boos fade into the annals of college football history, the question remains: Can Tim Walz recover from this public relations disaster? For a politician aiming for the vice presidency, being banned from attending college games isn’t exactly a resume booster. The Harris-Walz campaign will need to do some serious damage control if they hope to reverse the narrative that Walz is a man who can’t handle a crowd.

While Walz has tried to brush off the incident, the internet is far less forgiving. Memes of the governor being booed have spread like wildfire, with one viral post showing Walz’s face superimposed on a football being punted out of the stadium. Another meme features Walz standing alone in the middle of an empty field, with the caption: “When no one wants to play with you.”

Governor Tim Walz may have walked into “The Big House” expecting to be a spectator, but he left as the main event—albeit not in the way he had hoped. Now banned from future college football games, Walz is left to reflect on what went wrong. Perhaps he’ll stick to watching sports from the comfort of his living room from now on, where the only boos he’ll have to face will come from his television.

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