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Six New England Patriots Say They Will Skip a White House Visit
nytimes ^

Posted on 02/10/2017 1:38:04 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

At least six members of the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots have said they will not visit the White House for the traditional meeting that championship teams have with the president.

Running back LeGarrette Blount, defensive end Chris Long and defensive tackle Alan Branch on Thursday became the latest to announce that they would skip the visit. Long posted on Twitter that he “planned on skipping” in response to a column in The Daily News that urged him to skip.

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KEYWORDS: newengland; patriots; stayhome
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1 posted on 02/10/2017 1:38:05 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good. Stay the F home.


2 posted on 02/10/2017 1:38:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would love to see off-season trades to the Cleveland Browns for each of these ingrates.


3 posted on 02/10/2017 1:39:11 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Snowflakes


4 posted on 02/10/2017 1:39:42 PM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Name change in order?


5 posted on 02/10/2017 1:39:43 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We should email them coloring book pages.


6 posted on 02/10/2017 1:40:13 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not very patriotic of these patriots.


7 posted on 02/10/2017 1:40:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who cares?


8 posted on 02/10/2017 1:40:43 PM PST by sport
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Those uninformed racists matter because ____?


9 posted on 02/10/2017 1:41:43 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Have they been formally invited yet?


10 posted on 02/10/2017 1:41:47 PM PST by copwife (All God's creatures have a place in the choir!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t Chris Long Howie’s kid?

The next family get together might be interesting.


11 posted on 02/10/2017 1:41:49 PM PST by wbill
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Not very patriotic of these patriots.

They have an example to follow: Tom Brady found himself busy the last time the team was invited to the White House after a Super Bowl win.

12 posted on 02/10/2017 1:42:02 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: sport

I would absolutley love it if Trump just did away with this whole inviting winning teams to the white house thing. Be done away with the whole thing.


13 posted on 02/10/2017 1:42:09 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Saying this loud and clear so maybe someone from the Patriots can hear me.

Brady and Company should get a headcount of how many of the “team” are not coming and offer some high school kids (maybe state football champs) these losers spots.

I would stick a fork in the jerks.


14 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:13 PM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll bet Atlanta would have had fewer players staying away.


15 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:16 PM PST by BeadCounter
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defensive end Chris Long

Howie needs a talking-to with that boy.

16 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:32 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Well, one of the reasons I like Tom Brady very much is that he skipped the last invitation to the Patriots from Obama. I suspect that Brady has a bit more PR clout than these fellows. That does not mean that this decision makes any sense; but it will reduce the expenses involved..
17 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:40 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: hillarys cankles

Also, include details about how much taxpayer money is saved in the process.


18 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:42 PM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Six New England Patriots Say They Will Skip a White House Visit”

Ok.


19 posted on 02/10/2017 1:45:10 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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They wouldn’t have passed the Secret Service vetting anyways.


20 posted on 02/10/2017 1:46:03 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Love Trumping Hate" sure involves a lot more assault and arson than I expected.)
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