Biden falsely claims his Catholic school teacher was drafted by Green Bay Packers during Wisconsin appearance

WASHINGTON — President Biden blurted Wednesday that one of his childhood Catholic school teachers was drafted by the Green Bay Packers — an assertion disproven by a simple check of publicly available NFL records.

The 81-year-old president shared the false claim as he boasted of his connection to Wisconsin sports fans during a trip to the swing state.

“My theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Reilly — last name — and he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers,” Biden said in Racine, south of Milwaukee.

“And he decided to become a priest before that, so he didn’t go. But every single solitary Monday that Green Bay won, we got the last period of the day off.”

According to Pro Football Reference , the Packers have only drafted a single person with the last name “Riley,” “Reily,” or “Reilly” since the NFL began its annual college draft in 1936.

University of Colorado quarterback Maurice “Tex” Reilly was selected with the 202nd overall pick in the 22nd round of the 1947 draft — after his education was interrupted by World Word II, during which he commanded bombing missions over the Pacific, according to a 2002 article in the Denver Post.

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Instead of playing professional football, the Bronze Star recipient rejoined the US Air Force in October 1947 as a civil engineer and was deployed to Japan and later Spain.

Reilly also served as an instructor at bases in Ohio and Alabama before retiring as a major general, according to a military biography.

The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Biden previously told a different version of the Packers story, describing how Archmere Academy’s headmaster, Father Justin E. Diny, would dismiss students early in celebration of Packers victories.

The president has a long record of embellishing stories in an attempt to establish a personal connection with his audiences.

Biden in 2021 told Jewish leaders that he remembered “spending time at” and “going to” Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history, in which 11 people were murdered.

Synagogue officials said Biden never visited the house of worship and the White House later said he was thinking about a 2019 phone call to the rabbi.

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Just last month, Biden attempted to underscore his links to his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pa., by visiting a war memorial that bears his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s name — then twice claimed his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals . He actually died when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean.

Biden has shared at least 13 times as president a debunked story involving an Amtrak conductor to underscore his links to passenger rail and claimed in 2022 that his uncle Frank Biden won the Purple Heart — even though the details of the account made it factually impossible.

Biden has said twice that he was picked to attend the Naval Academy, though no supporting documentation exists — and told an Idaho audience during his first year in office that his “first job offer” came from local lumber and wood products business Boise Cascade, which was news to the company.

He also claimed while discussing wildfire devastation in Hawaii last year that his Delaware house “almost collapsed” from a small kitchen fire — after telling survivors one week prior that firefighters “ran into flames” to rescue first lady Jill Biden.

In 2021, Biden claimed “we almost lost a couple firefighters” in the blaze — prompting the local fire department to release a statement calling the conflagration “insignificant.”

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The latest tale comes as polls show a large majority of voters are concerned about Biden’s mental fitness for a second term.

An ABC News/Ipsos poll released this week found 81% of American adults think Biden is too old for another four-year term, while just 55% said the same of former President Donald Trump, the 77-year-old presumptive Republican nominee.

Biden’s false biographical stories stretch back decades, however.

He was forced to quit his first presidential campaign in 1987 following a scandal involving plagiarism of speeches and a law school paper .

Biden misappropriated British politician Neil Kinnock’s family history — changing minor details to claim that “my ancestors … worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.”

Biden’s ancestors, unlike Kinnock’s, didn’t mine coal.

The president also falsely claimed in that campaign that he “graduated with three degrees from college,” was named “the outstanding student in the political science department,” “went to law school on a full academic scholarship — the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship” and ”ended up in the top half” of his class.

None of those claims were true.

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