The resurface report on the Eagles' plans for a potential White House visit doesn't seem to have even expanded the invitation following the team's Super Bowl 2025 victory this month, but the passion for the topic is fired up I've put it on.
The topic returned to the surface this weekend after a pair of social media posts by widely followed soccer accounts @nfl_dovkleiman and @phleaglesnation. Report from the US Sun on February 6th If the Eagles win the Super Bowl, it would be a “massive no” for the Eagles to visit the White House.
The post went viral, and the response came quickly from people on the sport and political spectrum. Critic Megin Kelly even wrote that X weighs “go to your own Eagles.”
But anger may be pointless.
The Eagles and the White House have not publicly commented on the resurfacement report. Outkick's Clay Travis cited White House sources The report is labelled “fake news.”
“The Philadelphia Eagles have not rejected the White House invitation,” Travis posted on X. The White House has not sent an official invitation to the Eagles yet. ”
The debate over whether the team will visit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue following a championship victory has largely disappeared, even after President Donald Trump resigned in 2021 and served a second term in January. I did.
The Florida Panthers became the first professional team to visit the White House since Trump began his second term to celebrate his 2024 Stanley Cup victory.
However, the Eagles made waves in 2018 when they said they would not attend the White House ceremony due to Trump's position and comments on players who protested during the national anthem.
The plan was then to send a small number of players for the ceremony, but the visit was ultimately cancelled.
In a statement from the White House at the time, the situation was that Eagles players “have honoured the great men and women with the president and claimed they were proud of the national anthem, and so they were so proud of the president. They were told they disagree. Our military and the people of our nation.”
It is unclear whether the Eagles only have four players on that Super Bowl roster remaining, while President Trump passed the Eagles' 2018 snubbing.
Trump highlighted the impressions of both Super Bowl teams in a recent interview with Fox News' Brett Bayer before the big game.
“I'm a huge fan of both teams. They're kind of different,” Trump said in a sit-in. “In Philadelphia, [they] He has one of the biggest running backs, Saquon [Barkley]. You know, Saquon had an uncle. It was a great fighter and a great fighter. That's the name of Iranian Berkley. You have a great running back. You have a really great quarterback. Other teams, quarterbacks really know how to win. He's a great, great quarterback. ”
Trump became the first president to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans this year.
The president and his aides left the game at halftime as Philadelphia led the Chiefs 24-0.
Philadelphia eventually broke through Kansas City, 40-22.
