That if they were playing the Dallas Fucking Cowboys in the Superb Owl…

Well, on second thought, maybe not.

But close.

Screw the both of them.

Would you skip a wedding, party whatever to visit the White House? I am sure if he were free he'd go. He's been there 3 other times already.

Which is interesting

It would be interesting to know when they got the invite. It it was immediately after winning then except funeral, wedding or something major would stop from going. However if the invite came a week ago well what can you do?

His family is big. His sisters all have children I think. And Gisele just retired so they may be vacationing with her family in Brazil.

TBH I wouldn't go either. It's a meaningless political ceremony that I'd rather spend on vacation

...oops!



2005 - President Bush poses for a picture in the Rose Garden of the White House with New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, left, team owner, Bob Kraft, third from left, head coach, Bill Belichick, second from right, Tedy Bruschi, right and the rest of the football team Wednesday, April 13, 2005, in Washington. President Bush has welcomed the Patriots to the White House for winning the 2005 Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

uhm...



2004 - President Bush poses with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, left, and their head coach Bill Belichick, right, as he met with the 2004 National Football League champion New England Patriots, Monday, May 10, 2004, in the Rose Garden of the White House. At left in front row is quarterback Tom Brady. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

personally

...you apparently take any slight of Brady personally, Cali.

See how that works?

perceived slights against the President personally. I don't re Brady. That's the difference.

...and just focus on your interpretation of 'perceived slights.'

There's nothing to suggest that he didn't attend for political reasons. I say this as somebody who thinks Brady is a pretentious ass who was involved in orchestrating the deflation of his team's footballs.

"why would Brady bother to visit the White House at the invitation of the President?"

I'd imagine he has, as stated, a previous commitment.

However, as you imply absolute knowledge of the situation thorough melodramatic use of photographs ten years past to illustrate the intersection of NFL/White House history, we'd certainly enjoy your illumination of the relevant and precise reasons, allowing us access to the objective source material you use.

Otherwise... many people might be tempted to say you're merely guessing, and that your guess is predicated on little more than a nickle bag of political biases... Oops, indeed...

You're meeting his political veneer in a staged photo op. I'm sure once you get past being starstruck, the experience is pretty blah

...after attending his STOU as guest of honor, those three Bush WH visits must have seemed mundane.

Now that he has a wife, children, nieces, nephews and foreign in-laws, he has more family obligations than he had when he was single.

he was a single guy with no family obligations.

He only got married in 2009



I suppose if he had turned down Bush, there would be the same level of disgust and outrage, right?

Oh wait...

probably not. We'd be hearing what a hell of a guy he was. Yay!! He snubbed a Republican!!! Right?

Wrong.

So it's not about the invite itself. It's about who extended it.

He had prior family obligations.

But feel free to hate away. I drink deep of your tears.

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Suffer.

...and the 'hate' thing?

"Hater" is quite simply the dumbest Goddam term in the DU lexicon"

I enjoyed the irony as well.

for post of the day.

"Some times a cigar is just a cigar".

I guess the wifey was deflating his balls?

Wipe your tears away. With Angel Soft.

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Really? I believe Brady had a prior engagement. Nothing to get all bent out of shape about.

But hey, spread the hate without thinking ffs

"You know, no one's dying."

for his next ring.

See... I can just make shit up too!

Probably boring by now.

...he can attend next year.

...and some Duers disagreed with it, based on the explanation from the league of 'family obligations.'

I think everything is going to be fine, though.

are even invited to the White House.

What a waste of time.

prior family obligations.

You know what would have made me real happy as a kid?


To know that my dad cared so much about me that he turned down an invitation from the freaking president of the United States to see me in a play, or to attend Parent's Night at school or something like that.


Really, Dad? You did that for ME?


But hey, fuck the family, and fuck the kids, right?


PS...I voted for Obama twice, so don't even try to play a political game here.

not surprised though, knowing the organization and its fanbase...

Says the NY fan.

and that's because I grew up watching their AAA team in Tidewater...

Didn't I read that you were born in AL? The Saints or Falcons never tickled your fancy?

President Barack Obama welcomed the New England Patriots to the White House on Thursday by mocking the football team's infamous "Deflate-gate" scandal.

"I usually tell a bunch of jokes at these events, but with the Patriots in town, I was worried that 11 out of 12 of them would fall flat," Obama quipped, according to an official transcript.


"All right, all right, all right," he added. "That whole story got blown a little out of proportion."

The White House's transcript indicated "laughter" occurred after each line, but The Hill reported that Obama's Patriots jokes caused the crowd to "let out an audible groan at the president's jab."

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Obama-just-gave-the-New-England-Patriots-a-sick-6220185.php

"got him back" as much as Brady figuring that sort of "joke" would be part of the agenda and, along with other obligations, he just didn't feel like hearing it for the umpteenth time.

Because it's no longer funny and I don't care who's telling the "joke".

Old and stale and an insult to a team that didn't even NEED deflated footballs to beat the Colts that day.