There is a long list of players who chose to skip a visit to the WH.
There are others who’ve skipped out on White House championship trips. Green Bay Packers Tight End Mark Chmura refused to meet with Bill Clinton in 1997; Manny Ramirez refused to meet with George W. Bush in 2007; Steelers Linebacker James Harrison was a bi-partisan snubber skipping a meeting with Bush in 2006 and with Obama in 2009. League MVP and right wing baseball player Albert Puljos skipped out on two recent White House trips as well. He has attended Glenn Beck rallies (claiming it was values not politics based) and also supports Sarah Palin, but in a classic case of politically contradictory behavior he is vehemently against Arizona’s draconian new immigration law – something that Obama and the Justice Department are trying to overturn. My personal favorite is the Larry Bird snub of Ronald Reagan after the Celtic’s 1986 championship. Bird famously skipped out on meeting Reagan in 1986 reportedly telling a reporter the next day that “the president knew where to find him.”
http://drjasonjohnson.com/2012/01/30/tim-thomas-and-the-wide-world-of-white-house-sports-snubs/
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