A Few ’72 Doplhins Refuse To Meet POTUS
Only three? These guys are from a different generation , so I am surprised many more of them don’t jump on board. And note at the end where the “writer” wines about someone not wanting to visit Obama, basic liberal media member not understanding why people can’t stand the current POTUS.
On Tuesday, the 1972 Miami Dolphins will pay a visit to the White House that’s more than four decades overdue, but when Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris and Co. finally hit Pennsylvania Avenue, they’ll be doing so without a few of their former teammates.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, at least three ex-Dolphins won’t be visiting the White House because of their dislike for President Obama, and two more “are on the fence about going for the same reason.”
“We’ve got some real moral compass issues in Washington,” former center Jim Langer told the paper. “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.”
Bob Kuechenberg, the starting left guard on the ’72 team, echoed Langer’s opinion, saying, “I want to be careful, because mom said if you have nothing good to say about someone, then don’t say anything. I don’t have anything good to say about someone. “I don’t belong there, I’ll tell you that,” Kuechenberg continued. “Without being critical, I can just tell you I don’t belong. It would be hypocritical of me to be there. I don’t want to do that. 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.”
Defensive tackle Manny Fernandez took a more simplified approach, telling the Sun-Sentinel, “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.”
Langer, Kuechenberg and Fernandez aren’t the first to turn down a trip to Washington out of spite for the president, and they won’t be the last. But it’s a shame that anyone ever does it. You would never see a president — any president — withhold an invite based on political sentiment, and to deny making a visit on that basis seems like an unnecessarily refractory statement to make.
In this case in particular, it’s been a trip 41 years in the making, and any Dolphin who can be there should be there — out of respect for their teammates and an accomplishment that has yet to be duplicated or properly celebrated.