{"id":99204,"date":"2026-01-13T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99204\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:54:25","slug":"cringe-line-in-kathy-hochuls-state-of-the-state-speech-had-ny-crowd-erupt-in-boos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99204\/","title":{"rendered":"Cringe line in Kathy Hochul&#8217;s State of the State speech had NY crowd erupt in boos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY\u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul was pelted with boos during her State of the State address Tuesday in an odd moment that had nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n<p>A scripted crack at the end of the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/13\/us-news\/hochul-pressured-to-shift-left-as-she-lays-out-election-year-agenda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 50-minute speech<\/a> that was meant to sound like a dis of her hometown NFL Buffalo Bills caught the Empire State crowd off guard.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38172869\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-state-state-address-tuesday-118844547.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Kathy Hochul delivering her 2026 State of the State address.\" class=\"wp-image-38172869\"  \/>Hochul\u2019s joke fell flat.  Angus Mordant for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the patriots,\u201d Hochul said, as a photo of the Bills\u2019 gridiron rivals, the New England Patriots, flashed on the screen behind her and boos rained down from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d she said. \u201cWrong patriots. Get rid of that. Not those Patriots. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/13\/us-news\/gov-kathy-hochul-skirts-election-year-headaches-in-play-it-safe-2026-state-of-the-state-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Are you guys screwing around<\/a>? The patriots who formed the new nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bills and Patriots are both still alive in the NFL playoffs, and are one win away from facing each other in the AFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul, a devout Bills fan from Buffalo, wrapped up the State of the State with one message as she walked off wearing a baseball cap with the team\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go Bills!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY\u2014 Gov. Kathy Hochul was pelted with boos during her State of the State address Tuesday in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[426,57,9,11,10,49,17566,51,50,18571,87,43015,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-99204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kathy-hochul","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-assembly","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-new-york-state-senate","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-state-of-the-state","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}