拜登竞选团队告诉美国广播公司新闻网(ABC News)，随着美国国家橄榄球联盟(NFL)选秀本周开始，美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)的竞选团队将于周四推出一个新的数字广告，瞄准前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)过去贬低足球和联盟的言论。
这段20秒的简短广告在YouTube上播放，内容是特朗普此前攻击足球的剪辑画面，称足球“无聊透顶”，并说“没人关心足球”，与拜登问候并吹捧他与足球运动员的关系并列。
这则广告是拜登在大选初期与特朗普的斗争中的最新一场战斗，预计这场斗争将会势均力敌。广告结尾的信息是:“在11月做出正确的选择。”
这则广告反映了美国国家橄榄球联盟与特朗普之间的长期不和。特朗普曾在20世纪80年代拥有竞争对手美国橄榄球联盟球队新泽西将军队。据报道，特朗普曾在2014年试图收购布法罗比尔队，但由于投资者怀疑美国国家橄榄球联盟会同意收购，所以没有成功。
特朗普多年来一再攻击足球，尤其是NFL，包括在他担任总统期间指责NFL球员在国歌期间下跪，以抗议对有色人种的系统性偏见。
然而，川普与足球界的一些知名人士关系密切，包括四分卫汤姆·布拉迪和新英格兰爱国者队老板罗伯特·克拉夫特。
特朗普在竞选活动中还经常参加尾门和大学橄榄球比赛，包括参加著名的爱荷华大学鹰眼队对爱荷华州立大学旋风队的比赛，以及去年在共和党爱荷华州党团会议和南卡罗莱纳州初选白热化时南卡罗来纳州斗鸡队和克莱姆森大学老虎队之间的棕榈杯比赛。
根据拜登竞选团队的说法，新广告将针对战场州的足球迷，包括威斯康星州格林湾的足球迷;在底特律;在凤凰城;在匹兹堡。该广告还将在亚特兰大、夏洛特、北卡罗来纳州和拉斯维加斯播出。
第二位绅士道格拉斯·埃姆霍夫(Douglas Emhoff)将于周四晚上在密歇根州参加美国国家橄榄球联盟(NFL)选秀。他在一份声明中声称，尽管全国其他地方都在庆祝足球，但特朗普将“坐在场边，试图在今晚谈论自己，在他失败的社交媒体平台上愤怒发帖，并发表他极端、分裂和历史上不受欢迎的议程。”
川普竞选发言人张致恒回击了拜登的新广告，在X上书写、“你刚刚发布了一个视频，拜登几乎不能举起一个足球。”
他发布了一段1992年特朗普将足球扔进球门的视频，并写道:“这才是真正的运动员的样子。”
特朗普在拜登攻击广告中使用的第一个片段显示，特朗普在2020年NFL赛季的第一个周日在内华达州亨德森举行的一次集会上，当时的总统敦促观众坐下来放松一下，然后说他们有足够的时间“足球无聊透顶”。
他补充道:“过去人们会说，‘嘿，你能不能让它远离，远离一场足球比赛?’现在他们说，‘你能在足球比赛中做到吗?’"
在第二个片段中，特朗普在内华达州首府卡森市的2020年集会上说，“没人关心足球。他们应该变聪明，因为他们赢不了这场战争。我们需要热爱我们国家的人。”
特朗普多年来一再贬低跪着的NFL球员，声称他们变得太“软”，并呼吁暂停他们的比赛。
特朗普在2018年的X上写道:“NFL球员又来了——在他们应该自豪地站在国歌面前的时候单膝跪地。”来自不同球队的众多玩家想要表达他们对一些他们无法定义的事情的“愤怒”。他们做自己喜欢的事情来赚钱。”
Biden spotlights Trump's attacks on NFL and football with battleground state ad blitz
As the NFL draft kicks off this week, President Joe Biden's campaign is launching a new digital ad on Thursday taking aim at former President Donald Trump's past comments disparaging football and the league, the Biden campaign told ABC News.
The short, 20-second ad, on YouTube, features a montage of Trump previously attacking football, calling it "boring as hell" and saying "nobody cares about football," juxtaposed with Biden greeting and touting his relationship with football players.
The ad -- the latest skirmish in the early part of Biden's general election fight against Trump, which is expected to be close -- ends with the message: "Make the right pick in November."
The ad plays into the longstanding feud between the NFL and Trump, who had once owned rival United States Football League team the New Jersey Generals in the 1980s and reportedly tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014 but was unsuccessful after investors doubted the NFL would allow it.
Trump has repeated attacks on football and more specifically the NFL over the years, including during his presidency when he railed against NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem as part of a protest against systematic bias against people of color.
However, Trump has had close ties to some notable figures in football, including quarterback Tom Brady and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Trump has also frequented tailgates and college football games on the campaign trail, including attending the famed University of Iowa Hawkeyes versus Iowa State University Cyclones game and the Palmetto Bowl between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Clemson University Tigers last year as the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary were heating up.
According to the Biden campaign, the new ad will target football fans across battleground states including in Green Bay, Wisconsin; in Detroit; in Phoenix; and in Pittsburgh. The ad will also air in Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Las Vegas.
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, who is attending the NFL draft in Michigan on Thursday night, claimed in a statement that while the rest of the country will be celebrating football, Trump will be "sitting on the sidelines trying to make tonight about himself, rage-posting on his failing social media platform and spewing his extreme, divisive, and historically unpopular agenda."
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung shot back at the new Biden ad,writing on X, "You just posted a video where Biden could barely hold up a football."
He posted a video of Trump from 1992 throwing a football through a goal, writing, "Here’s what a real athlete looks like."
The first clip of Trump used in the Biden attack ad shows Trump at a rally in Henderson, Nevada, on the first Sunday of the 2020 NFL season, where the then-president urged the audience to sit down and get comfortable before stating they had plenty of time as "football is boring as hell."
He added: "Used to be people would say, 'Hey, could you keep it away from, from a football game?' Now they say, 'Could you possibly do it during a football game?'"
In the second clip, from a 2020 rally in Nevada's capital, Carson City, Trump said, "Nobody cares about football. They ought to get smart because they can't win this war. We want people that love our country."
Trump has repeatedly disparaged NFL players kneeling over the years, claiming they've gotten too "soft" and calling for them to be suspended.
"The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem," Trump wrote on X, then called Twitter, in 2018. "Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their "outrage" at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love."
