Christie got a lot of applause for ridiculing the conversation about fantasy football prompted by a question to Bush. ” Wait a second, we have $19 trillion in debt, people out of work, ISIS and Al Qaeda attacking us and we’re talking about fantasy football? Can we stop?” Christie was happy to talk about his fantasy football team in an interview with the Star-Ledger in 2013. “My quarterback in that league is Joe Flacco and in my other league, which I’m in with — it’s Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton’s league — I’m in their league, and Aaron Rodgers is my quarterback in that league.”
