Eagles coach Vic Fangio mocks Anthony Fauci's Senate hearing spectacle during his own press conference

Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times in a Senate hearing regarding COVID-19 origins. Sen. Rand Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is pushing to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, noting Fauci's own diary entry from January 2020 indicated the wet market was an amplifier, not the source, of the virus.

The start of any NFL training camp is a life-consuming experience that leaves participants with little time for anything else, but Philadelphia Eagles coach Vic Fangio showed Thursday he can still keep up with other things: Like Anthony Fauci's Senate hearing.

The defensive coordinator got in front of reporters for a regularly scheduled news conference and promptly fielded the first question that, if you know Philly reporters, wasn't a softball.

"I'm going to be like Fauci and just take the Fifth Amendment on your question," Fangio said. "Did you guys see that?

"Oh, my God."

Dec 1, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio on the field before the game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium. (Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images)

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Fangio was kidding.

And not kidding.

He watched segments of the hearings in which the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a cornerstone member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force during the Covid-19 pandemic testified before senators.

Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment so as to not incriminate himself more than 100 times – 111 times by some counts.

Fauci, 85, was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate’s government oversight committee by Chairman Rand Paul