Harrison Traditionally Not Making White House Visit

James Harrison, now that you’ve won the Super Bowl, what do you plan to do next?

“I’m going to Disney World!”

Isn’t that how the script is supposed to go? I never heard the one where they ask…

James Harrison, now that you’ve won the Super Bowl, what do you plan to do next?

“I’m going to the White House!”

Harrison refuses to visit the White House just because his team wins the Super Bowl. He skipped the trip in 2005 when he won his first Super Bowl with the Steelers and did the same in 2009.

No one cared about this story when Harrison was a back-up linebacker in ’05 but now that he earned the Defensive Player of the Year award in ‘09 the story gets a lot more attention.

People have the right to have an opinion and I highly doubt his NFL contract mentions a mandatory trip to Washington D.C. after a Super Bowl win.

Still though, its tradition and an opportunity to shake the hand of the President, something most people will never have the chance of doing. But if he wasn’t the guy that returned a Super Bowl record setting 100 yard interception for a touchdown this story would have never surface, and I'm almost positive he's not the first guy to do this.

So let’s bury the story because you never know, he could have visited the White House plenty of times throughout his life and could have a dinner date tonight at 9 pm tonight with Obama in the oval office.