Dean also touched on education, drawing gasps from the audience when he asked the legislature to help him craft a school choice bill, citing a "lack of equity" for those who are dissatisfied with their public school.
Worse was to come for the iconic England fly-half just after the 20-minute mark when he missed a far simpler effort, to gasps of disbelief from the massed ranks of travelling England fans at the Stadio Flaminio.