Peyton Manning joins a very exclusive club with his latest White House trip
The Sheriff is just the third Super Bowl winner to visit two different presidents
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Will Brinson
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2 min read
It's pretty hard to get an appointment with the President of the United States. It's even harder to get one by winning a Super Bowl -- you not only have to, you know, win the Super Bowl, but you've also got show up at the White House (ask Brock Osweiler, it's not easy).
You know what is REALLY hard though? Getting an appointment with two different presidents after winning two different Super Bowls.
Not only do you need to be good enough to make the NFL and play quarterback for two teams that actually win the Super Bowl, you've got to be good enough for a stretch of time that allows you to see multiple people sitting in the Oval Office during your run as an NFL quarterback.
Granted, it's possible you could win a Super Bowl during the final year of someone's presidency and then a Super Bowl during the subsequent year as well, but, still, not easy to do.
On Monday, future NFL Hall of Fame member and two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Peyton Manning managed to pull it off.
And Manning, who won Super Bowl XLI with the Colts and then Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos, got to hang out with Barack Obama, marking a second sitting president he's seen at the White House.
When the Colts beat the Bears in February of 2007, Manning and his teammates took the trip to Washington, D.C. in order to visit with George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
As Colts.com recalled recently, it was a "beautiful spring day for the ceremony" when the Colts came to Washington on April 23, 2007.
On Monday, June 6, 2016, Manning made his second trip to Washington, this time to visit with Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
But Manning isn't the first quarterback to pull off this feat, nor is he even the first quarterback in his own family to pull off the feat.
Eli Manning saw "Dubya" back in April of 2008 -- Bush joked about sending Jessica Simpson, who Cowboys fans blamed for a playoff loss to the Giants at the time, to the Democratic National Convention -- and also got to meet President Obama in June of 2012.
Ben Roethlisberger also pulled off the feat, meeting Bush in June of 2006 (PLEASE go remember what he looked like back then, my goodness, Ben) and then he got to meet Obama in May of 2009, when the fairly new President put the Steelers to work handing out gift baskets to the troops.
