The Philadelphia Eagles have not snubbed President Donald Trump’s invitation to celebrate their Super Bowl victory at the White House because no such offer has been made to the team, administration and Eagle officials said on Monday.
A recent tabloid report that the Eagles planned to answer a White House invite with a “massive no” generated conservative blowback led by media personality Megyn Kelly, who wrote, “G F YOURSELVES EAGLES.”
The situation appeared to be a semi-replay of Trump rescinding an invite to the Eagles after they won the Super Bowl in 2018 because several players had revealed they would not attend. Trump’s relationship with part of the sports world soured amid his condemnation of kneeling national anthem protests led by Colin Kaepernick.
But that doesn’t appear to be the case this time around.
An unnamed White House official told Politico the tabloid report was false, saying the White House had not proffered an official invitation to the Eagles. The Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month for their second Super Bowl title. Eagles sources said the team would be “honored to visit” the White House and “look forward to receiving the invitation,” the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
This doesn’t mean that an Eagles trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is a lock, however. Stay tuned.
