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James Harrison. It's difficult to be offended by the Steelers' James Harrison skipping out on his team's White House visit, and I'm not quite sure why it's news at all: He didn't go see President Bush in 2006 either, which is a shame, because James Harrison seems like the type of guy who would throw a shoe at the President, if just due to an itch. What I love about Harrison's attitude is that it's not a political thing, or even a laziness thing: He legitimately doesn't see what the big deal about going to the White House is. And even better: He's offended that, had the Buzzsaw won the Super Bowl rather than the Steelers, they would have been invited to the White House instead of the Steelers. "If you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don't win the Super Bowl. So as far as I'm concerned he would have invited Arizona if they had won." This is fantastic: I believe this makes James Harrison the first athlete to play the "You didn't RESPECT us!" card with the President of the United States.