Seahawks reportedly not visiting White House after Super Bowl championship

[00:00:00]It used to be a privilege to go there.

[00:00:02]It's kind of a big deal and a lot more teams are just kind of saying, "Yeah, you know what? We're going to be on vacation that week and we can't make it." So, what do you think about this?

[00:00:10]>> Yeah, first of all, I love that you're having me answer this question. So, thank you for that, number one. Number two, I would just say this, if the team doesn't want to go, I don't care. If they want to go, I don't care. I mean, it's totally their call. I'm cool with it either way, right? If there's certain people in that locker room in that organization that don't want to go visit President Trump, then that's their prerogative and their decision and I'm totally cool with that. And if they want to go see the White House and be a part of history, I'm totally cool with that, too. I realize there's going to be people on either side of the aisle that will lose their mind, no matter what the Hawks do, go or don't go. I'm not one of those guys at all.

[00:00:45]>> For sure. And I think you just made a good point there saying that they haven't actually gotten the official invite and that's that's according to reports is true. Um, but like you mentioned, it's because sometimes the sometimes the administration gets word that it's not going to go their way and instead of being, you know, disappointed or embarrassed, they instead just just don't invite at all. And I think that what the teams are starting to learn now, uh, take back last year got last year with the Philadelphia Eagles. Some of the star players decided not to go, but the rest of the team went. And I think that teams don't really love the optics of that. They don't like the optics of some guys want to be there, some guys don't, which of course is their prerogative either way. Um, but I think they like unity. And if you can't force somebody to do something, you might as well just say, "You know what?

[00:01:22]We're just going to we're going to focus on You can make it just about the team.

[00:01:24]We're going to focus on us. We're going to focus on the season and stuff like that."