Tim Thomas refused to visit the White House when the bruins won the Stanley Cup and Obama was president due to well... Barry.
He then went into seclusion after retirement and basically flipped the bird to his critics. he, like Tim Allen’s TV show title, may be the last man standing.
I had a lot of respect for that. He initially wasn’t making a deal of it himself, he just wasn’t going. It was a private thing, but there is no way the media would let it stay that way.
At least, that is how I remember it.