During the first term of President Trump, his relationship with the NFL was controversial.
Built the severity of the shocks In football, although the league has taken steps to reduce the trauma of the head in the game, and suggested that football is falling because it is not as violent as it once was. Most remarkably in 2017 urged NFL owners to make Fire players Who was not behind the national anthem to protest against racial injustice and police brutality.
This has led to Leaguewide the rebuilding of Mr. Trump, with many other players who joined the protests and even some of his supporters within the NFL, including team owners, criticized his comments. After Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl this season, Mr. Trump withdrawn The traditional Celebration of the Championship in the White House, when it turned out that most players would participate.
“He disagrees with his president because he insists that he is proudly behind the national anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our army and the inhabitants of our country,” he said seven years ago.
The times have changed. On Sunday, Mr. Trump is expected to become the first American president to personally participate in Super Bowl. Will be in SuperDome in New Orleans to watch Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs as an invited guest Gayle Bensonowner of New Orleans Saints.
He wrote about the game on Friday morning about the truth of the socialpraise of several players and coaches (though no name) and at the same time take the rupture of the league New rules KickoffAs he did before.
“Two large quarterbacks in this game.” Also incredible running back and absolutely the best tight end in football (always!). Incredible coaching! If they just got rid of the really strange looking new excavation “agreement”, which actually makes football more dangerous, everyone, especially fans, would do great kindness. Anyway, it will be a great game !!! “Mr. Trump wrote.
Most politicians like to be around football because of its tremendous popularity and the number of ingredients that they can only reach by appearing in a game or next to a star player or coach. Mr. Trump is remote because his connection with the league has been reaching for decades and reaches from aspirive to openly antagonistic.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Mr. Trump showed an interest in buying a team, including Baltimore Colts, New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills. In 1984 he could not land with the franchise and bought Generals New Jersey from the emerging American football league. After a bitter court, $ three was damaged. Osfl soon collapsed.
Mr. Trump – who likes to participate in sports events such as UFC fighting and games at the college football championship – was also a regular guest of Patriots owner Robert Kraft before entering politics. When he ran for the president in 2015 and 2016, he used his connection with the team to help increase his profile with football fans. Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady briefly maintained a great America cap in his cabinet, and Bill Belichick wrote a letter to the support Mr. Trump read on television. After he was elected, Mr. Kraft and six other NFL team owners donated $ 1 million for inauguration in 2017.
Then came his criticism and will from players. But NFL is now in a different place than it was then. Players are no longer in protest. And the league will not be for the first time in one of the Super Bowl end zones for the first time since 2021, the decision that comes when Trump’s administration comes, aggressively shifted aggressively to aggressively move aggressively to aggressively move to the initiative with re -diversity, justice, justice and incorporation.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump will have a chance to talk about football again.
“Historically, it was time to talk about unity and community and just celebrate this wonderful holiday in our national civic religion,” Michael Maccambridge, author of “America’s Game: The Epic story of how professional football captured the nation,” he said. “It is complicated to have Donald Trump celebrate football, especially because of his somewhat problematic relationship with the NFL and his players.”
In the past, Vice Presidents participated in Super Bowls, but the presidents limited their connection to the traditional television interview The Airs in the lessons before the start of the broadcast this year. These interviews dating back to 2009 are a way to reach a massive television audience and convey their love for the game and the idea that Super Bowl is one of the few events in American life that combines different groups together. (President Biden has decided Do not participate In a television interview in the last two years and President Trump in 2018 he rejected the Social Post of Truth, Mr. Trump noted that he would appear in an interview with Fox before the match.
Mr. Trump is also expected to meet with survivors attack In the French Quarter of New Year and emergency medical staff who helped them. It will also appear on video screens inside SuperDome.
Many presidents, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, played football and talked about the game and NFL kindly. President Richard Nixon was particularly obsessed with football and Sent games to coaches including George Allen and Don Shula. Also Called to Congratulations Shuula After the dolphins won the Super Bowl VII in 1973.
Like other presidents, Barack Obama invited Super Bowl champions to the White House. But Said if he had a son“He would have to think long and hard” before he let him play football for violence.
Three vice -presidents participated in Super Bowl. Spiro Agnew, who was Governor of Maryland, was the first. He went to the Super Bowl III as a guest of the owner of Baltimore Colts Carroll Rosenbloom.
Vice -chairmen and presidents sometimes took part in regular games. In 2017, vice -president Mike Pence went to the game of Colts in his home state Indiana and was behind the national anthem As a counterpoint to Colin Kaepernice and other players who kneel while playing “Star-Spangled Banner”.
In October, during the campaign, Mr. Trump took part in the game between Jets and Steelers In Pittsburgh.
However, Super Bowl will have a much larger audience on Sunday, with more than 100 million viewers in the United States and many millions of other overseas.