--- title: Scott Walker Bashes Christie On His Jerry Jones Hug description: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has joined the Twitter criticism of Chris Christie over his celebration of a Dallas Cowboys win. canonical: https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-07T16:11:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:21:53.860Z article:section: Politics og:title: Shots Fired: Walker Bashes Christie Over Football og:description: The Wisconsin governor took a populist shot over Christie's love of the Dallas Cowboys og:url: https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2361480011311caf/69876e6cf887dce796e88fbf/2016-candidate-scott-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Scott Walker og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shots Fired: Walker Bashes Christie Over Football twitter:description: The Wisconsin governor took a populist shot over Christie's love of the Dallas Cowboys twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2361480011311caf/69876e6cf887dce796e88fbf/2016-candidate-scott-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shots Fired: Scott Walker Bashes Chris Christie Over Football  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jan 7, 2015 4:11 PM UTC  Scott Walker Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker practices the presidential point on March 3, 2014 in Milwaukee. Scott Walker Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker practices the presidential point on March 3, 2014 in Milwaukee.Jeffrey Phelps—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jan 7, 2015 4:11 PM UTC The 2016 Republican presidential primary heated up a little more today as Scott Walker took a populist shot at Chris Christie over football. Despite being governor of New Jersey, Christie is a big fan of the Dallas Cowboys and took some criticism for an [enthusiastic bear hug](http://time.com/3653411/chris-christie-dallas-cowboys/) of team owner Jerry Jones after the Cowboys’ playoff victory Sunday. Walker didn’t criticize Christie’s choice of teams, per se, but he did take an indirect dig at the fact that he was in the owners’ box after [flying to the game](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/jerry%5Fjones%5Fpaid%5Ffor%5Fchris%5Fchristies%5Ftrip%5Fto%5Fdallas%5Fto%5Froot%5Ffor%5Fcowboys.html) on a private jet paid for by the team owner: > [](https://twitter.com/GovWalker/status/552847806315393024) As head of the Republican Governors Association, Christie [campaigned in Wisconsin](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/chris-christie-scott-walker%5Fn%5F5902280.html) for Walker’s re-election in September, though now that both governors are gunning for the same outside-Washington slot in the 2016 primary, it looks like the gloves are going to come off. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/"},"headline":"Shots Fired: Scott Walker Bashes Chris Christie Over Football","datePublished":"2015-01-07T16:11:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:21:53.860Z","description":"People are still talking about the giddy embrace","url":"https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Chris Christie","Scott Walker"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2361480011311caf/69876e6cf887dce796e88fbf/2016-candidate-scott-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2361480011311caf/69876e6cf887dce796e88fbf/2016-candidate-scott-walker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Scott Walker","caption":"Scott Walker","creditText":"Jeffrey Phelps—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3657561/scott-walker-chris-christie-cowboys/","name":"Shots Fired: Scott Walker Bashes Chris Christie Over Football"}}]}] ```