Shockey, Strahan, Umenyiora say ‘no thanks’ to Dub-ya
The Super Bowl champion New York Giants were honored by President George W. Bush at the White House Wednesday. Well, most of the Giants.
(There were a few key players not in attendance. Among them were: TE Jeremy Shockey, DEs Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora and LB Antonio Pierce. Former Giants S Gibril Wilson, now with the Raiders, was there.)
Those players probably had better things to do. Lord knows Shockey can be complaining about something somewhere.
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Sorry, call me old fashioned, but how many citizens get a chance “to be honored” by the President of the United States? Regardless of what you think of George W. Bush, it should be a high honor for any American to have an opportunity like this. Shame on these guys. Just goes to show what is important to professional athletes these days.
First-term W? Maybe. Second-term W? No way.
Obviously, these guys disagree with his politics/actions so much that they don’t want to meet the man. Appearing at the White House could be seen as a show of support for what he’s done. And maybe, just maybe, something penetrated the little bubble he lives in and W got wind that there were Giants that didn’t want to meet him.
I like it that they stood by their convictions. In the case of Shockey, he was probably just hungover or something.
I was about to say – I highly doubt Shockey was trying to make some political stand. And I have a hard time believing the rest of those guys were either, but I could be wrong.
Yeah, maybe politics had nothing to do with it. In that case, shame on those guys.
shockey was in new orleans looking for a new house!