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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

It's an annual tradition.

It's like the Swallows returning to Capistrano or Punksitani Phil.

Same deal, right?

Every year, the team that wins the Super Bowl goes and visits to the White House.

You can put the old breaks on that.

Not going to happen this year.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I assume you've been following this story, but maybe you have not been paying attention.

Maybe you've been locked in a underground bunker and you've not been paying attention.

But President Donald Trump calling off the plan

visit of the Philadelphia Eagles, they will not be landing at the White House less than 24 hours

before that scheduled appearance.

It was all over the, well, there's a couple of layers to it.

It depends on who you believe, right?

The dispute over the National Anthem played a factor in it supposedly. But that's not the main gist of this.

It's not at all. The decision comes after the majority of the Eagle team had uninvited

themselves to the White House. And the story is being positioned that Donald Trump did not allow the Philadelphia Eagles to attend,

that he rescinded the offer.

But from what I understand, the Eagles were actually the team that they were the ones that were the aggressor.

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