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'72 Dolphins Snub White House
USBC News ^ | 2013,08,23 | USBC News Wire

Posted on 08/23/2013 11:09:19 AM PDT by swampthang77

...In 1972, the Miami Dolphins won 14 regular season games, and another three in the post season, leaving them with a perfect season, and a Super Bowl trophy.

President Barack Hussein Obama invited the team to the White House, which has been closed to US citizens since March 9th, 2013. Known as “the People’s House,” the tours were shut down under the Obama administration, as part of a set of “sequester” budget cuts championed by the president. Critics have noted that Obama continues hosting extravagant events, despite the economic downturn, and earlier promises to resume tours as soon as possible....

(Excerpt) Read more at usbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; dolphins; miami; whitehouse
Perfect move by at least 3 of the "perfect Dolphins!" Goal line stand!
1 posted on 08/23/2013 11:09:19 AM PDT by swampthang77
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To: swampthang77

Obama must be desperate for good publicity to invite a football team from 41 years ago for a photo-op.


2 posted on 08/23/2013 11:13:36 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: swampthang77

there’s a Fox Sports article about those 72’ players who didn’t show up:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/daily-buzz-miami-dolphins-white-house-visit-with-barack-obama-turning-into-a-political-football-081913

yeah, they’re disgusted about showing up at the White Hut


3 posted on 08/23/2013 11:17:21 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: swampthang77

There is a virgins joke here somewhere....


4 posted on 08/23/2013 11:18:15 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: max americana

And the idiot that wrote that Fox article is disgusted with them.

Sports writers are the bottom rung of the journalist ladder. I am not surprised.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 11:22:27 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: swampthang77

As much as I’d like to see the Whitehouse, i wouldn’t have gone either.


6 posted on 08/23/2013 11:25:34 AM PDT by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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To: swampthang77

too bad it was not 72 Dolphins instead of ‘72.


7 posted on 08/23/2013 11:26:50 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
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To: swampthang77

Principles...men of principles


8 posted on 08/23/2013 11:29:30 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Kind of inaccurate, they did not snub the White House, they snubbed the resident.
9 posted on 08/23/2013 11:35:55 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

ESPN, Fox, they’re all lib scum.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 11:36:46 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: swampthang77

Just three? Should have been them all.


11 posted on 08/23/2013 12:55:44 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: bgill

Well, if Mercury Morris didn’t go, who would Obama snort coke with?


12 posted on 08/23/2013 1:31:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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