{"id":704762,"date":"2026-06-15T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704762\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:53:08","slug":"seahawks-white-house-visit-apparently-isnt-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704762\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks&#8217; White House visit apparently isn&#8217;t happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the never ending modern news cycle, the things that don\u2019t happen often don\u2019t get noticed. Case in point \u2014 the Seahawks haven\u2019t, and apparently won\u2019t be, visiting the White House in recognition of their win in Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no announcement, by the team or by the White House. But with the offseason program over and the players scattered until training camp opens, the natural window has closed on the team from Seattle, Washington to go to Washington, D.C..<\/p>\n<p>In the days after the Super Bowl, a question emerged as to whether the Seahawks would go. At the time, the team said <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/will-seahawks-make-white-house-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nothing had been offered or decided<\/a>. At the Scouting Combine, coach Mike Macdonald said that the team <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/mike-macdonald-seahawks-will-address-white-house-visit-if-when-invitation-is-received\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has yet to get an invitation<\/a> and that, if one comes, they\u2019ll address it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get an invite, right?\u201d Macdonald said at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s how it works? Not really sure how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, there has been no indication that an invitation was extended, or that it was rejected. The non-war war in Iran likely was a factor, but the White House has generally continued to take care of its usual public business (including a visit by the NCAA football champions, the Indiana Hoosiers).<\/p>\n<p>When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl to cap the 2013 season, they <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seahawks.com\/photos\/tbt-seahawks-honored-at-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">visited the White House on May 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that, this time around, backchannel discussions regarding, for instance, the number of players who would attend the event, resulted in no invitation being extended. It\u2019s also possible that the White House wanted to avoid the indignity of having an invitation rejected (or sparsely attended) and the Seahawks didn\u2019t want to be the subject of a 3:00 a.m. social-media barrage, which also would have included a longwinded complaint about the kickoff formation.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s still time. The Seahawks play the Commanders at FedEx Field on Sunday, September 27. So they\u2019ll be in the area. Whether they\u2019ll want to take a look in the rearview mirror after playing two games in the 2026 regular season remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>If they get invited. And if they accept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the never ending modern news cycle, the things that don\u2019t happen often don\u2019t get noticed. Case in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-704762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}