Following an aerial tour of the area, Abbott told reporters that blame-seeking was “the word choice of losers.” The governor then turned to that most cherished Texas unifier, football, likening emergency responders to a football team faced with a setback.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) pushed back against a football analogy made by Gov. Greg Abbott yesterday, saying the catastrophic flooding in the state and the region’s response to the disaster is “not a game.