The Philadelphia Eagles are America's football team now. And Trump's feud with them proves it.

NBC News ^ | June 6, 2018 | Maggie Serota

[silverleaf]

Trump: The Eagles are invited to be honored at the WH
Eagles: Only 6 guys want to come
Trump: OK the invitation is withdrawn
Eagles: Waaaa! Dictator!

[RightGeek]

Show us your bitch face?

Yeah, I thought so.

[Mears]

She is a MOVIE REVIWER,for heaven’s sake,a movie reviewer.

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[BlueLancer]

There's a opinion poll in the article pertaining to kneeling during the National Anthem ...

Y'all may want to head on over that way to FREEP it ...

[Fedora]

No, but NBC News continues to prove it’s an anti-American network.

[cgbg]

Maggie is from one of those parallel universes—you know, the one where Earth was annihilated by a roving comet!

[ThornJ56]

Just a hunch... If they really were Americas team they’d go to the white house out of respect for the honor regardless of their anti American opinion.

[Freee-dame]

“A smaller delegation”. ........

2 players, the mascot and the owner or coach who is an outspoken anti-Trumper. Please tell me who let down the 1000 fans who came? PDJT never mentioned the Eagles in his pro-America remarks. This is a perfect example of fake news even though it is true. It’s slant is so extreme as to be purposefully misleading. I wonder how sports TV and radio commentators covered it.

[Lagmeister]

I know some folks who were diehard fans. Like a 'cheated on' wife they went nutz-burger over what they saw the Ravens do in London.

Burned their swag and have not gone back.

Philly may think their championship gives them a bye... well, they quickly forgot who voted Trump in their state. I am sure they are already sold out for the coming year... but that doesn't mean all the fans will show up... and surely, they will be in a shock come the year after.

[x]

No. The Cowboys have fans in some unexpected corners of the country. So do the Steelers. And in baseball, the Yankees and the Red Sox. The Eagles don't generate any enthusiasm outside Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey.

People who hate Trump can find plenty of football teams with players who hate Trump too, so there's no reason to embrace the Eagles. People who are tired of hearing about Trump and football are more likely to ignore the whole thing than suddenly embrace the Eagles.

[Boomer]

The butt hurt is strong in this one.

[SoFloFreeper]

[hanamizu]

HURL. The Iggles are Blue America’s Team.

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I read somewhere that the team originally took its name from the NRA Eagle—FDR’s unconstitutional National Recovery Administration, that made all kinds of intrusive rules into business activities—like how many ducks can be hauled by one truck.

[bray]

Some chick lecturing us on FB, right!

[Intolerant in NJ]

It remains to be seen what kind of pressure - and by whom it was applied - persuaded the eighty team personnel who had planned to attend the White House gettogether over the weekend to cancel out - by yesterday only the coach Doug Peterson would say publicly that he was “looking forward to the visit” - pretty clearly it was a setup......

[TigersEye]

For decades I was simply uninterested in football. No animus towards it.

Now I hate the NFL!

Not as much as I hate NBC though.

[ml/nj]

This AMERICAN no longer has a professional football team. My fall sport now will be watching the NFL crash and burn.

ML/NJ

[NorthMountain]

Since the late 1970s, the Dallas Cowboys have been known as “America’s Team.”

Bullshit. Only idiots ever used that term.

[Drew68]

Who started this so-called “feud”? Trump or the majority of the team?

It's my understanding that the Eagles' front office wanted to embarrass the President by sending a smaller delegation that originally planned. This way, the story would be all the players who didn't show up.

President Trump said, "screw you!" and cancelled the entire event.

[joma89]

The members of the eagles are just a bunch of horrible leftists. I trust many more people stop watching the nfl because of this event.

JoMa