Social media calls out Tim Walz coaching history after former players take center stage at DNC [Video]

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Former members of the Mankato (Minnesota) West High School football team took center stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night in support of their former coach, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as he formally accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president.

However, social media stirred over the reference to Walz as a football coach that turned a losing team into state champions.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reacts during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

“In Minnesota, we trust a coach who turned a team that was 0-27 into state champions,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said in her speech on the third night of the DNC.

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Ben Ingman, one of Walz’s former students who said the governor also coached him in seventh …

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