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‘Perfect’ 1972 Dolphins team members snub Obama’s invite
Biz Pac Review ^ | 8.20.13 | Michael Dorstewitz

Posted on 08/21/2013 2:04:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

While President Barack Obama wants to show his love for the phenomenal 1972 Miami Dolphins football team, at least three of its members aren’t showing the love back. They refuse to appear for a Tuesday White House tribute.

The Dolphins are the only team in National Football League history to win the Super Bowl with a perfect season. Some of the members of that championship team have decided to snub the White House event honoring the team.

“We’ve got some real moral compass issues in Washington,” Hall of Fame center Jim Langer told the Sun-Sentinel, according to NewsMax. “I don’t want to be in a room with those people and pretend I’m having a good time. I can’t do that. If that [angers] people, so be it.”

“I think it’s great if [other players] want to have that function at the White House,” Langer said when the idea was first broached a year ago. “I have other stuff to do.”

Former offensive lineman Bob Kuechenberg was more circumspect with his comments.

“I want to be careful, because mom said if you have nothing good to say about someone, then don’t say anything,” he said “I don’t have anything good to say about someone,” but added:

“I just don’t believe in this administration at all. So I don’t belong. Anyone on the left or the right has to respect one man’s opinion.” He said he’ll take his grandson fishing instead.

Manny Fernandez, NFL’s “Unsung Player of the Year” in 1973, was plain-spoken in his remarks: “I’ll just say my views are diametrically opposed to the president’s. Enough said. Let’s leave it at that. I hope everyone enjoys the trip who goes.”

NewsMax reported:

Obama is scheduled Tuesday to welcome the 1972 Dolphins to honor the only team — then or now — to go 17-0. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Don Shula is expected to accompany the players, and Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti told the NewYork Daily News the event was “a long time coming, but we’re finally getting there.”

The ’72 Dolphins didn’t make it to the White House in the months after their Super Bowl victory because President Nixon was immersed in the Watergate scandal.

Two other members, as yet unidentified, are wavering on making an appearance, for the same political reasons.

Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk dnd Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas nixed earlier White House tributes. Birk, because of Obama’s pro-choice stance and Thomas because the government “has grown out of control, threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: miamidolphins; nfl; obozo
The Dolphins achieved this amazing feat while the Watergate mess was brewing. Now that they're retired, the NFL can't force the players that refused the invite to undergo re-educati...OOPS I mean sensitivity training.
1 posted on 08/21/2013 2:04:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

The man is infatuated with “celebrity”.

It didn’t happen on his watch. It has nothing to do with his term of office.

“They couldn’t GO when Evil Nixon was president...”


2 posted on 08/21/2013 2:08:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Impala64ssa

All those who refused to go to the White Palace are all RACISTS!!!!


3 posted on 08/21/2013 2:10:54 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Impala64ssa

That was the only NFL game I’ve ever been to, much less superbowl.


4 posted on 08/21/2013 2:16:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Impala64ssa
...at least three of its members aren’t showing the love back

At least three are smart enough not to play the role of "useful idiot". The men, unlike congress, seem to understand the meaning of integrity, I applaud them for snubbing the antiCHRIST usurper!

5 posted on 08/21/2013 2:21:56 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (For congress, it's not the principle of the thing, it's the money.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Only 3!? I’m disappointed.


6 posted on 08/21/2013 2:27:34 PM PDT by albie (re)
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To: Impala64ssa

“...Barack Obama wants to show his love for the phenomenal 1972 Miami Dolphins football team...”

Why now? Is there something special about the 41 (42?) year anniversary of this feat?


7 posted on 08/21/2013 2:28:21 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: albie

I’m really disappointed in Czonka.


8 posted on 08/21/2013 2:34:49 PM PDT by rocksblues (The Obama administration the most unlawful, corrupt administration in US history.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Good for these guys.

Audits in their future, though.


9 posted on 08/21/2013 3:59:29 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: rocksblues

Csonk being pro gun, pro outdoor sports. Its hard to imagine he would be in the presence of the Gun Grabber in Chief.


10 posted on 08/21/2013 4:37:32 PM PDT by Finatic (I ran out of change and have given up on hope. FUBO, I am so sick of your sorry a$$ you effin punk)
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To: Impala64ssa

The IRS has been notified.


11 posted on 08/21/2013 5:10:01 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: Finatic

That’s why I was surprised he was there.


12 posted on 08/21/2013 6:18:07 PM PDT by rocksblues (The Obama administration the most unlawful, corrupt administration in US history.)
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