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Occasionally, when President Bush meets a sports team that has won a title, it means something. When the Red Sox visited after winning the World Series in 2004, not only was it a historic victory, but it also allowed Curt Schilling — who had campaigned heavily for Bush after the Red Sox won — to receive a pat on the back from the Prez. (Oh, and thanks for that, Curt.) The day the Red Sox visited in the White House, or the day the Cardinals did, those days meant something.
Today, however ... today just can't be a day President Bush looks forward too on his schedule. It's NCAA Division I Champions Day, in which the title winners of 20 different NCAA sports visit the White House and hopefully see the President over the tall women from Tennessee. Featured will be the Wisconsin women's hockey team, the Pepperdine tennis team, the Nebraska volleyball team and, most memorably, the Vanderbilt bowlers, who will be delivering a red, white and blue bowling ball to the president. Because he surely never received one of those before.
Vanderbilt Bowlers Have White House Visit [The Tennessean] (via The Wizard Of Odds)
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America! Fuck Yeah!
The Harlem Globetrotters should crash this event and amaze the Pres with their ball-handling wizardry, to the point that the event is canceled and the student athletes have no choice but to protest the war while on the grounds of the White House.
So, after today Bush will finally have some balls?
Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney will be meeting with the U-Miami Face-Shooting team.
See...Vanderbilt CAN compete in Div I sports and win!
Yay, bowling!
I think Bill Maher said it best a few weeks ago :
If the President wants to meet sports heroes
he has to get in line behind all the other retarded kids.
@BigTenObsession:
No, just one...a red, white and blue one.
Tennessee winning the SuperBowl with a reinstated Pac-Man, and the entire team taking a visit with the POTUS has comedy gold written all over it.
"No, Adam. You can't bring your posse to the White House. No, the Bush Twins don't want you to 'make it rain.'"
Does the Duke Lacrosse team have a thing for older, former coked-out presidents?
Hank Aaron ain't showing up for this either.
Hockey team from Wisconsin? Hey, good job winning that Stanley trophy! Saw that on the google, ya know.
Just don't wear flip-flops.
@SlickBomb: +3 now to wipe the coffee off my monitor
Tacos rule!
What bowling? And no invite for the National Intermural League of Frisbee Football?
Unfortunately, I imagine there will be several "Mission Accomplished" jokes being bandied about.
If I ever start a barbershop quartet, I will name it "The Vanderbilt Bowlers."
@TheStarterWife: Bush loves NILFFS.
"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"
-Ohio State football (11/17/2006)
-Ohio State basketball (3/31/2007)
@twoeightnine: What's especially great about that is that NU's women's lax team is now going to be making a second return trip to the white house after the flip-flop incident. at least they're repping us well, go 'cats!
@Burnsy:
If I ever start a barbershop quartet, I will name it "Fuck Me in the Pants"
@BigTenObsession:
Funny, that was going to be the name of our first single.
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Did they invite the Alaska-Fairbanks rifle team? Dick Cheney says their a bunch of pussies.
This is an empty day for me, as the highest, NCAA recognized, football champions...The Division 1, FCS Champions - The Appalachian State Mountaineers - appear to have been given the shaft again.
It's like a metaphor for the treatment of Appalachian coal workers...or something...
Woo-hoo Pepperdine! Go Waves.
does the gay Oklahoma national champion only get to meet the vice presidents daughter?
@The Gentleman Masher: My alma mater of Georgia Southern has six of those national championships and have never gotten an invite to the White House.
@El Knob Grande: +1. Brilliant.
Kevin Millar's disembodied head floating in the background of that picture bothers me a lot.
Screw that, Kevin Millar bothers me a lot.
@Da_Mang:
That's because they were afraid Erk would head-butt the President...
Will UCSB bring the goal they threw in the ocean with them?
@El Knob Grande: Amazing. I love it.
What about the UMBC chess team? I call shenanigans!
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