Eagles captain reveals how team will decide whether to visit Donald Trump at the White House after 2018 snub

The Philadelphia Eagles did not sojourn Donald Trump's White House aft winning Super Bowl LII successful February of 2018.

But aft Sunday's Super Bowl LIX victory implicit the Kansas City Chiefs, the Birds could flock to Trump's White House sometime this year.

'I'd beryllium honored to go, careless of who the president is, but we'll see,' squad skipper and close tackle Lane Johnson said, arsenic quoted by Sportico. 'It's yet a squad decision. I'll bash what's champion for the team.'

The President attended the Eagles' triumph implicit the Chiefs connected Sunday successful New Orleans but near the crippled aboriginal to alert backmost to his location successful Palm Beach, Florida at an estimated outgo of determination betwixt $8million and $20 cardinal payer dollars.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to White House spokespeople to spot if Trump plans connected inviting the Eagles to the White House.  

The President's past with the NFL has been analyzable to accidental the least.

He sued the league arsenic an proprietor of the upstart USFL's New Jersey Generals successful 1980s successful a doomed effort to get an NFL franchise, according to best-selling writer Jeff Pearlman's Football for a Buck. Ultimately Trump was told by then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle successful 1984 that helium would ne'er 'be a franchise owner.'

Before becoming President helium was outbid for the Buffalo Bills, and pursuing his electoral triumph successful 2016, Trump slammed protesting players for kneeling during the nationalist anthem. (Interestingly, Trump sat during the anthem erstwhile helium owned a USFL team, according to Pearlman's sources) 

It was successful the outpouring of 2018 that Trump disinvited the Eagles from the accepted White House ceremonial that June amid rumors respective players planned to boycott the event.

'The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House,' Trump wrote connected Twitter astatine the time. 'Unfortunately, lone a tiny fig of players decided to come, and we canceled the event.'

Trump past linked the contented to NFL players protesting racist constabulary brutality by kneeling during the anthem. He besides chided those who remained successful the locker country during The Star-Spangled Banner, arsenic permitted by league rules/

'Staying successful the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is arsenic disrespectful to our state arsenic kneeling,' helium added. 'Sorry!'

Only a fistful of Eagles players stay successful Philadelphia from that Super Bowl-winning team: Johnson, antiaircraft extremity Brandon Graham, kicker Jake Elliott and agelong snapper Rick Lovato.

Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie sidestepped the contention earlier Sunday's Super Bowl LIX triumph erstwhile asked if his squad would sojourn the White House successful the lawsuit of a triumph implicit the Chiefs.

'I conscionable privation to triumph Sunday,' Lurie responded.

For what it's worth, Lurie has a grounds of supporting left-leaning politicians, specified arsenic Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, though helium antecedently to Republicans George W. Bush and Arlen Specter arsenic well.

The New York Times published a signaling of Lurie successful a backstage gathering successful October of 2018 criticizing Trump.

'Another information I privation to propulsion retired there: Many of [us NFL owners] person nary involvement successful supporting President Trump,' helium said. 'Yes, determination are some. There are immoderate players who do, too. But this is not wherever you brandish a radical of radical due to the fact that they ain assets successful a athletics we love, supporting what galore of america comprehend as, you know, 1 disastrous presidency.'

Curiously, Trump has not congratulated the Eagles since their Super Bowl triumph contempt publically toasting the Kansas City Chiefs connected societal media pursuing their caller AFC Championship victory. He's besides praised Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, the second of whom 'liked' a brace of Trump-related societal media posts during the campaign. 

'I privation to convey beauteous Brittany Mahomes for truthful powerfully defending me, and the information that MAGA is the top and astir almighty Political Movement successful the History of our present Failing Country,' Trump wrote connected his Truth Social web up of his electoral triumph implicit Kamala Harris successful November.

Things weren't ever truthful rosy betwixt Trump and the Chiefs.  

Years earlier, aft Mahomes' Chiefs bushed the San Francisco 49ers successful Super Bowl LIV, Trump famously congratulated the squad from 'the Great State of Kansas.'

The Chiefs play successful Kansas City, Missouri, and not Kansas City, Kansas, a smaller municipality a fewer miles distant crossed the authorities border.