The Philadelphia Eagles celebrate Super Bowl victory at home parade
Thousands of fans line up the streets of Philadelphia, alongside the Eagles’ Super Bowl Lix Victory Parade.
The Philadelphia Eagles are scheduled to celebrate their recent Super Bowl victory at the White House if invited by President Donald Trump, a first-hand person to know the situation confirmed by USA Today Sports on Monday.
The person requested anonymity as he was not authorized to publish his team’s decisions. CNN, ESPN and the NFL network first reported the news on Monday evening.
The existing Super Bowl champions intend to accept a customary invitation to visit the White House, but whether such invitation will be extended by Trump, who suddenly disappeared the Eagles the night before their scheduled 2018 trip It remains unknown. The White House Press office did not respond to messages immediately Monday night.
The Eagles’ White House visit crushed the Kansas City chief earlier this month, and the source of the plot, given the past history of Philadelphia with Trump and the way traditions changed more widely during Trump’s first term. It was.
While key experts and university sports league championship teams have visited the White House for decades, under Trump, traditional visits have become more sporadic and controversial. NBA teams whose players are primarily black have not been invited to visit the White House or have refused to attend during Trump’s first term. And with a break from recent precedent, several championship teams in women’s sports did not receive invitations.
For NFL teams, the visit has become particularly difficult after repeated explosions of players who kneeled between the league and the national anthem and protested racial inequality. Only one of the four teams that won the Super Bowl in Trump’s first term traveled to the White House (New England Patriots in 2017).
The Eagles were scheduled to visit with Trump in 2018. Until the White House surprisingly retracted the invitation on the eve of the scheduled ceremony. The NFL Network reported that Philadelphia planned to send fewer than 10 players to the ceremony, and then White House reporter Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the team was trying to pull “political stunts.” He criticized him. Instead, the White House held a short, nasty event the following day, which he described as an American celebration.
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