The Philadelphia Eagles did not visit Donald Trump’s White House after winning Super Bowl LII in February of 2018.

But after Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, the Birds could flock to Trump’s White House sometime this year.

‘I’d be honored to go, regardless of who the president is, but we’ll see,’ team captain and right tackle Lane Johnson said, as quoted by Sportico. ‘It’s ultimately a team decision. I’ll do what’s best for the team.’

The President attended the Eagles’ victory over the Chiefs on Sunday in New Orleans but left the game early to fly back to his home in Palm Beach, Florida at an estimated cost of somewhere between $8million and $20 million taxpayer dollars.

Trump’s history with the NFL has been complicated to say the least.

He sued the league as an owner of the upstart USFL’s New Jersey Generals in 1980s in a doomed effort to acquire an NFL franchise, according to best-selling author Jeff Pearlman’s Football for a Buck. Ultimately Trump was told by then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1984 that he would never ‘be a franchise owner.’

Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson (left) doesn’t know if the team will go to the White House

President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump stand for the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIX

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Before becoming President he was outbid for the Buffalo Bills, and following his electoral victory in 2016, Trump slammed protesting players for kneeling during the national anthem.

It was in the spring of 2018 that Trump disinvited the Eagles from the traditional White House ceremony that June amid rumors several players planned to boycott the event.

‘The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House,’ Trump wrote on Twitter at the time. ‘Unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event.’

Trump then linked the issue to NFL players protesting racist police brutality by kneeling during the anthem. He also chided those who remained in the locker room during The Star-Spangled Banner, as permitted by league rules/

‘Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling,’ he added. ‘Sorry!’

Only a handful of Eagles players remain in Philadelphia from that Super Bowl-winning team: Johnson, defensive end Brandon Graham, kicker Jake Elliott and long snapper Rick Lovato.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie sidestepped the controversy before Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX win when asked if his team would visit the White House in the event of a victory over the Chiefs.

‘I just want to win Sunday,’ Lurie responded.

For what it’s worth, Lurie has a record of supporting left-leaning politicians, such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, although he previously to Republicans George W. Bush and Arlen Specter as well.

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Trump has improved relations with the Chiefs since falsely stating they play in Kansas 

The New York Times published a recording of Lurie in a private meeting in October of 2018 criticizing Trump.

‘Another fact I want to throw out there: Many of [us NFL owners] have no interest in supporting President Trump,’ he said. ‘Yes, there are some. There are some players who do, too. But this is not where you brandish a group of people because they own ᴀssets in a sport we love, supporting what many of us perceive as, you know, one disastrous presidency.’

Curiously, Trump has not congratulated the Eagles since their Super Bowl win despite publicly toasting the Kansas City Chiefs on social media following their recent AFC Championship victory. He’s also praised Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, the latter of whom ‘liked’ a pair of Trump-related social media posts during the campaign. 

‘I want to thank beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me, and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most powerful Political Movement in the History of our now Failing Country,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social network ahead of his electoral victory over Kamala Harris in November.

Things weren’t always so rosy between Trump and the Chiefs.  

Years earlier, after Mahomes’ Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, Trump famously congratulated the team from ‘the Great State of Kansas.’

The Chiefs play in Kansas City, Missouri, and not Kansas City, Kansas, a smaller town a few miles away across the state border.