Are The Eagles Going To The White House After Super Bowl Win?

PHILADELPHIA, PA — The retribution to the fast festering rumor that the Philadelphia Eagles would not visit the White House if invited to celebrate their Super Bowl win was swift and violent.

"GO F YOURSELVES EAGLES," former Fox News host Megyn Kelly shared on social media. "My husband is a fan so I got onboard but F this BS."

"The 'eagles' are not eagles at all, after all, turns out, they are crows," General Mike Flynn, the former National Security Advisor, added moments later.

Turns out that the pair of high profile conservatives were reacting either to social media gossip or the lone report on the issue from the tabloid outlet, The U.S. Sun. Less than two days later, both ESPN and the NFL Network reported that the former report was not true and that the Eagles would indeed visit the White House, if invited.

"The Eagles would be honored to visit The White House, team sources say," widely trusted NFL Insider Ian Rapoport said late Monday. "It’s one of the aspects of winning they are excited about and look forward to receiving the invitation."

Every corner of the Internet and orientation on the political spectrum has found outrage in each iteration of the Birds to the White House saga, perhaps bringing to an abrupt end the Eagles turn as "America's team" after their drubbing of the archvillain, would-be dynastic Chiefs in New Orleans.

Of course, something fueling the drama and the rumor mill was the memory of the bulk of the 2018 Eagles championship team actually refusing to visit the White House. That came amidst a dispute involving first term President Trump and players who refused to kneel for the national anthem before games. In the end, a very small handful of Birds players agreed to visit, but Trump decided to cancel the visit.

As of Tuesday, an official invitation from the White House to the Eagles had not been issued.

The notion of a White House visit, usually offered to champions of America's major sports leagues, was once a nonpartisan, noncontroversial tradition. The 1983 NBA champion Sixers visited Ronald Reagan, while the 2008 Phillies visited Barack Obama, and the image of local heroes photographed in the White House was received with general joy by fans.

But the 2025 Eagles won in an entirely different era, and they would be damned if they did and damned if they didn't. The speed and furor with which the false news spread — and from the mouths of such high profile figures — only further belies that nothing public is apolitical in the age of the Internet.

Add to this that the Eagles, to much of the world, are simmering with liberal overtones. They're from the big bad blue sanctuary city of Philadelphia, they've been pitted on the left against the heartland, red-state, red-uniformed Chiefs on the right, and, of course, President Trump was rooting for the Chiefs. After the Eagles utterly dominant victory, the perceived slight was only so much tinder to the always waiting flames.