Repeated college football champs the Georgia Bulldogs have declined President Biden’s invitation to the White House; they will not attend “College Athlete Day” on June 12.
From The New York Post:
“The University of Georgia first received on May 3 an invitation for the Bulldog football team to visit the White House on June 12,” Georgia’s athletic association said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year.”
Several months back, there were gripes among Georgia supporters that the team had not been invited sooner.
“It is our hope that this repeat championship team can join the many teams prior that have been honored by the President,” a bipartisan group of Georgia’s congressional delegation wrote to the White House in January, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In February, a President Biden official said the White House “looks forward to welcoming” Georgia, but the invitation did not arrive until last week.
The Bidens just can’t seem to get it right when it comes to inviting championship college teams to the White House. Recently, FLOTUS Jill Biden tried inviting both the winning and losing teams of the women’s national basketball championship last month; the blowback was severe.
More over at The New York Post:
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