WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden noticed it as an omen for his upcoming reelection try that the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs had been again on the White Home on Friday, being honored as Tremendous Bowl champions for the second 12 months in a row.
Biden famous that the Chiefs had been the NFL’s first repeat champions in 20 years. He paused after which mentioned, “Again to again. I like that.”
The Chiefs appeared at dwelling on a sunny, heat afternoon. They arrived on the ceremony on the South Garden through twin staircases from the White Home, with extensive receiver Rashee Rice main the way in which in one of many traces.
A number of gamers, together with Rice, paused for pictures on the podium within the White Home briefing room.
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Patrick Mahomes, in a quick interview after the ceremony, mentioned his favourite a part of this 12 months’s journey was exhibiting the White Home to teammates who weren’t eventually 12 months’s go to.
“I feel it was cool that you simply form of knew what to anticipate,” Mahomes mentioned. “I am exhibiting different guys footage on the wall. I am exhibiting work, I am exhibiting some previous furnishings, all the pieces. It truly is cool, and I really feel I used to be making an attempt to be a tour information in some unspecified time in the future, and so it’s cool for that. After which to be on the stage and get to simply look out and also you see the Washington Monument and all these various things, it is a cool second. I will admire it.
“Hopefully we get to come back again once more. I will admire it each single time.”
Biden, maybe conscious of Travis Kelce’s mock try and take over the microphone eventually 12 months’s ceremony, initially joked that the tight finish would not be invited to talk.
“I might have Travis up right here however I do not know what he would say,” Biden mentioned.
However then he invited Kelce to the mic.
“My fellow People, it is good to see you all once more,” Kelce mentioned. He then retreated, saying he had been instructed he can be zapped with a taser if he stayed put.
In the course of the ceremony, Biden talked about the capturing after the Tremendous Bowl championship parade in February and the function that many gamers and coaches had in offering consolation to followers.
“I am so pleased with these guys that stepped up in that method,” coach Andy Reid mentioned afterward. “There was no panic by the gamers, after which they took all of the little children who had been crying and form of nursed them only a bit and helped them settle down. Throughout chaos, that is one thing.
“The entire metropolis rallied round it and that is a neat factor. It did not matter. You place all the pieces apart, all of your beliefs and all the pieces apart, however all people rallied collectively to help the household [of victims] and which you could’t ask for extra of that.”
The ceremony concluded with Reid and chairman Clark Hunt presenting Biden with a helmet, which he placed on his head to the cheers of Chiefs gamers.
“We bought the royal remedy and a pleasant tour,” Reid mentioned. “I do not know what number of presidents have tried in your workforce helmet. This is perhaps a primary … so it is historical past being made.”