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Steelers Star Passes on Obama Visit

Invite us when we don't win, says Harrison, who declined in '06, too

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted May 18, 2009 4:06 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Linebacker James Harrison, the NFL defensive player of the year and a key cog in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl victory this year, won’t accompany his team to the White House this week, WTAE-TV reports. Harrison also turned down the honor when Pittsburgh won in 2006. “If you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers,” Harrison said, “invite us when we don’t win the Super Bowl.”

“This is how I feel,” Harrison continued about the Obama invite. “As far as I’m concerned, he would’ve invited Arizona if they had won.” Harrison also doesn’t see what all the fuss is about, ESPN adds. “I don’t feel the need to actually go,” he said. “I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal to me.”

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison tackling Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison tackling Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.   (AP Photo)
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison carries the Super Bowl trophy.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison carries the Super Bowl trophy.   (AP Photo)
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison.   (AP Photo)
President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama.   (AP Photo)
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uplink
May 20, 2009 7:35 AM CDT
how could a college graduate spend his entire life playing the game of football and NOT know the winning team gets the prize? can anyone really be this stoopit? I'm not afraid of him.... it's pretty clear he can't read.
prowlerzee
May 19, 2009 5:38 AM CDT
Demi, do you read? Newser tries to make it easy for morons like you and condenses the article, but are even these few words too much for your gnat-like attention span? The man also turned down the "honor" in 2006...when we still had Bush. You Obots are pretty oversensitive, aren't you? Not to mention functionally illiterate.
prowlerzee
May 19, 2009 5:34 AM CDT
Oh, that's funny. As if scrawny tobacco-addicted Obama could "pimp slap" anyone, let alone this athlete! Brand Zero is more comfortable listening to pimp music and brushing women off his skinny shoulders like bird poop. He would need pampers to face off a real man like Harrison, who has turned down pompous affairs before, according to this article, which you might try actually reading.

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