Super Bowl champ James Harrison, who had an eye-popping interception return for a touchdown to end the first half of the Super Bowl, said he won’t join the Pittsburgh Steelers when they make their trip to the White House to honor their title.
If you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don’t win the Super Bowl. As far as I’m concerned, he [Obama] would’ve invited Arizona if they had won.
Harrison reportedly didn’t visit the White House when the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2006, either. To me, it’s a chump move. It’s an honor to have the President of the United States acknowledge your title. Yeah, it’s the same thing every time they do it, and they do it for lots of teams that win the national championship. But to not show up, and to make it a public spectacle, is pretty low.
on May 18th, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Harrison is an idiot with his reasoning. Of course the Cardinals would have been invited had they won — that’s what honoring the “Super Bowl champs” means. He is getting widely mocked in many places for his sheer stupidity.