Posted on 02/24/2025 6:06:27 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Eagles, winners of their second Super Bowl in seven years after beating the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month, would love to visit Trump this time around.
"We would be honored to visit the White House," a club source said. "It's one of the things we had looked forward to doing, and we look forward to receiving the invitation."
That's the thing: The White House has yet to extend the invite.
Seems streamlining a bloated government, saving billions, trying to broker peace in the Middle East and Ukraine, and rooting for the USA hockey team takes up a lot of time. But the invite will surely come, and this time it will be accepted.
(Excerpt) Read more at outkick.com ...
Jalen Hurts comes off pretty classy, hopefully no politics gets in the way!
Heads in the far-left piggy “media” are exploding.
Oh really!
Race industry in turmoil?
WTF? Didn’t they say no to begin wif?
Show. We need less.
Sorry about your luck, Lefty losers who were hoping for a snub.
WINNING!
Sounds like the White House is gonna take a knee on that visit.
As of right now, February 24, 2025, it’s not entirely clear whether the Philadelphia Eagles will visit the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl LIX win over the Kansas City Chiefs on February 9, 2025. There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about it.Reports have swirled since early February, with some—like an article from The U.S. Sun on February 6—claiming the Eagles had already decided against going, citing team discussions and a “massive no” to meeting President Donald Trump. That story gained traction after the Super Bowl, especially on social media, with outlets like Newsweek and the New York Post running with it on February 24, suggesting the team was snubbing the White House. The Eagles’ rocky history with Trump, including a canceled visit in 2018 after their Super Bowl LII win due to anthem protest tensions, fueled the narrative.
But hold up—there’s pushback. On February 24, sources like The Philadelphia Inquirer and Outkick reported that no official White House invitation has even been sent yet, meaning the Eagles couldn’t have rejected it. A White House official told POLITICO the same day that claims of a snub were false, and the team hasn’t made a firm call. Front Office Sports also backed this up, saying the viral rejection story was premature. Eagles captain Lane Johnson had said before the game it’d be a team vote, and he’d be honored to go regardless of who’s president, but no vote’s been confirmed. The Eagles themselves? Silent so far. No public statement as of tonight. So, it’s a maybe—they might go if invited, but nothing’s locked in. History suggests they’re not afraid to skip it, but the current chatter’s a mix of speculation and conflicting reports. Stay tuned. Ask anything
Don’t count on it.
They snubbed Trump in 2018?
Then I think it not unlikely Trump will snub them in 2025.
He has a long memory.
They had their chance.
Hopefully, the president will ignore them completely. Jeffery Lorie is the biggest contributer to the Democratic party in the NFL. F them.
A “tradition” that needs to end.
I thought that is what I read (somewhere).
What if they’re never invited?
If the Philadelphia Eagles aren’t invited to the White House after their Super Bowl LIX win on February 9, 2025, it’d break a long-standing tradition—but not without precedent. Teams have been visiting the White House since the 1980s, starting with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ronald Reagan, though it’s not mandatory or legally required—just a custom tied to celebrating American sports. The Eagles skipping it, or not being asked, wouldn’t be a first for them or the NFL under Trump. In 2018, after their Super Bowl LII victory, Trump canceled their invite when only a handful of players planned to show, citing disagreements over the national anthem protests. He turned it into a patriotic rally instead, with fans but no team.If no invite comes this time, it could stem from that rocky history. Trump was at Super Bowl LIX, rooting for the Chiefs, and has a tense past with the Eagles—think anthem disputes and his 2020 debate jab at Philly: “Bad things happen in Philadelphia.” He might not bother extending the olive branch, especially if he thinks the team or its owner, Jeffrey Lurie (a known progressive), would snub it anyway. Reports swirled post-Super Bowl that the Eagles had already decided to decline, but as of February 24, 2025, no official invite has been sent, per White House sources. The team’s captain, Lane Johnson, said it’d be a team vote if asked, and he’d be honored to go—but without an invite, that’s moot. What happens? Practically, nothing earth-shattering. The Eagles would celebrate elsewhere—parades in Philly, like the one on February 14, already had fans ecstatic. No White House trip doesn’t erase the 40-22 win over the Chiefs or the Lombardi Trophy. Public reaction would split hard: some would cheer the team dodging Trump, others would rage, calling it unpatriotic—echoing the 2018 backlash when Megyn Kelly told them to “go F yourselves” (she backtracked this year when the snub rumors were debunked). Social media would light up either way, but it’d fade fast—football fans care more about the game than D.C. photo ops.
The NFL wouldn’t care much; it’s not their call. Trump might spin it—maybe a tweet about “disrespect” or “winning anyway”—but he’s got bigger fish to fry in his second term. The tradition might take a hit, though. If Trump skips inviting champs—or teams keep opting out—it could fade into a relic of less polarized times. For the Eagles, it’s business as usual: they’d prep for next season, White House or not. Life moves on, and so does football.
He may have asked the owner if the team could go to the White House.
It wouldn't surprise me. Hurts seems like a respectful guy from what I remember when he was playing at U. Of Alabama.
Funny how the story was the Eagles turned down the invitation. They did that last time. I dont think another invite is coming. It shouldn’t.
Yes, they said no.
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