Michael Strahan invites Clemson champions to a lobster dinner -- on him!!!

[CatWoman]

Link to tweet

"I personally would like to invite the Clemson Football team here for a great meal," Strahan said Tuesday on GMA Day. "Come out here, whoever can make it. We will have lobster. Whatever you want. We gonna take care of you. We gonna give you the proper meal that you deserve because that was one great game, a great accomplishment. We thought what we could give them; I thought lobster was great. It's out of my pocket. I got you guys. I'll pay for it. No problem. Those guys deserve it. Congratulations."

Read more: https://www.tigernet.com/update/Former-football-great-invites-Clemson-to-celebratory-lobster-dinner-32197#ixzz5cj0UtLlH

[flygal]

1. they probably aren't allowed to accept due to NCAA rules.

[akraven]

10. They are if it doesn't involve publicity or payback.

I hope they take him up on it and I wish I could be a fly on the wall!

[orleans]

14. what rules? can you help me out

since i don't follow
thanks.

[underpants]

19. Can't give you specifics but scholarship athletes have really tight restrictions on them

There's a long history of football and basketball players getting paid for fake jobs (like watching an oil well).

[akraven]

52. Very tight restrictions, especially as involves publicity.

file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/IE/2ALQF08X/2017FB_MEMO_Rules_Reminders_Technology_20170814.pdf

[Soxfan58]

37. I think you may be right flygal

NCAA rules are crazy. Barry Swittzer once gave a player a plane ticket to go to his moms funeral. The NCAA sanctioned him.

[flygal]

40. Yep, I'm thinking of an American who plays on a professional German football team

He wasn't on scholarship, couldn't afford school, went the community college route hoping to get on the team the next year, but because he had received monetary assistance from a friends' dad the NCAA banned him. He couldn't even get loans for some reason... it's incredulous to the Germans.

He explains at the 10:45 minute mark:

[dem4decades]

2. I like Mike. Didn't know i did but i do now.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Oh look at that! Donald, ya burnt!

[SoCalDem]

4. He should take them to whichever hotel is Trump's competitor

and have a press event to show how guests should be treated....

The Donald understands humiliation and mockery

Mock away

[akraven]

11. Can't do press - anti NCAA rules -

But! that doesn't prevent them from speaking out afterward!

[Cha]

5. That's how!

[babylonsister]

6. I LOVE Mike!!

[liberal N proud]

7. Good for him

[Zoonart]

8. Class act, that Michael Strahan.

:

[Takket]

9. Good man!!!!!!!!!!!

[smirkymonkey]

12. Now that is a man with class and decency.

He puts Trump to shame.

[calimary]

24. 1,000,000%! That IS class.

[gademocrat7]

13. Good for Mike Strathan.

[TomCADem]

15. Good for Michael Strahan to Remind Us of What Class Looks Like

The President decided again to be petty and take what should be a moment of triumph for these young men and make it all about himself.

[Ligyron]

22. I'm missing something here.

Did Trump diz the Clemson team or somehow? Why the comparisons between Strahan and Trump?

[Marie Marie]

25. Trump had them to the White House and served McDonald's slop.

Then bragged about paying for it out of his own pocket. Oh yeah, he was sooo proud of himself.

[Ligyron]

28. Oh, wow. No shit?

What a classless, tacky buffoon.

Thanks for the reply!

[Marie Marie]

30. You're welcome...

Kind of hard to keep up with all the "news" with this joker.

[TomCADem]

33. Worse, He Then Used The Visit To Blame Democrats ...

...for the shutdown. He both sought credit for buying fast food, while also blaming Democrats for the shutdown, thus using Clemson as a political football.

[UpInArms]

36. Cold slop and stale fries

[Ligyron]

50. Fries don't travel well at all, end up steamed and soggy.

Usually cold too, esp in this weather.

[tblue37]

56. Here ya go:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-clemson-fast-food-wendys-mcdonalds-burger-king-photos-pictures-2019-1

Trump greets Clemson Tigers with fast-food buffet of Wendy's, McDonald's, and Burger King as they celebrate their national championship

Link to tweet

[whistler162]

16. It wouldn't have been bad serving burgers at the

White House, after all FDR served hot dogs to royalty. If Obama hadn't ruined it all by eating at all the good burger joints in DC! Now Trump can't order from them 'cause Obama ate there.

[griloco]

17. Lol

[WeekiWater]

20. Having a burger and hotdog cookout would have been nice.

Plan ahead and let them dress appropriately. Make it a great experience and make it about their hard work paying off.

[William Seger]

49. Yeah, the worst part was, there's nothing much worse than COLD McDonalds

[Dave Starsky]

54. You'd have to be a normal human being...

To even come up with something like that.

[Ilsa]

31. Or steaks, hamburgers, etc.

Or cater in some great barbecue with all the "fixins".

[Dave Starsky]

55. That all sounds delicious.

Anything's better than what he served them.

I guess we should be thankful he didn't slop out bowels of gruel, or chum from a bucket at the Washington Navy Yard.

[Honeycombe8]

18. Now you're talkin'! If you're going to honor someone, HONOR them, for pete's sake. nt

[marble falls]

21. Michael Strahan has always been a level headed, genuinely nice person. Pure class to ...

Trump's solid crass.

[Sprite]

23. Mike's a great guy.

He once showed up at the 14th Street Y and visited kids in the after school program.

[Mme. Defarge]

26. Formidable!

[Gothmog]

27. LOL

[The Wizard]

29. This makes Trump out to be

what he really is, cheap and insulting.

[Quixote1818]

32. Networks need to cover this! It needs to be in Trump's face big time! nt

[drbtg1]

39. You make a great point, especially considering Mr. Strahan works for both ABC and Fox!

Gee, I wonder if Fox will cover it?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

34. BOOOOOOM!!!!

[padah513]

35. Why did the WH schedule the Red Sox to come in February (they won in October)

But scheduled Clemson (just won a week or two ago) to come now? Politics maybe?

[CatWoman]

38. when it comes to Tangerine Caliguia

it's politics ALWAYS

[geardaddy]

41. K&R

I have one question about Dotard's tweet. He said he paid for the fast food. Did he or did we the taxpayers pay?

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Which also raises the question: what actually is Donald's money?

The guy is so leveraged, and I bet he's running negative assets and always has - has he ever had any actual money of his own? I think he's just always spending other peoples' other, even if it's cloaked as a "loan".

[efhmc]

42. Saying on twitter all the guests said they enjoyed it.

Any verification anywhere? I saw on Colbert one say something about thinking it was a joke.

[CatWoman]

46. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211676481

[efhmc]

48. Thank you. Leave it to you and DU to furnish me with the truth,

nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Nice gesture, but also seems to be turning the team into political pawns, and that's insulting.

Maybe not, but that's how it seems.

What's next? Some rich GOPer offers a steak and lobster dinner to them in Bermuda?

Though maybe Strahan is a GOPer. I have no idea. I barely know who he is, and was surprised to see that he's an African-American - I thought Michael Strahan was the wrestler douchenozzle guy who's on TV who proposed to his fiance on a wrestling mat.

So maybe I got the sport wrong, but this guy definitely looks like a sports guy.

[Dave Starsky]

45. Michael Strahan is an NFL Hall of Famer.

I'm sure he remembers what it was like to be a college athlete, and he probably thinks what Trump did was a fucking insult to the players. Because it was.

[CatWoman]

47. that's my take

[Wounded Bear]

51. Michael is probably richer than Trump anyway...

[Dave Starsky]

53. Oh, for sure he is.

The dude's one of the hosts of Good Morning America on ABC AND one of the panelists on Fox's NFL Sunday. Plus he does ads for Subway (among others) and has even begun showing up in movies. He's all over the place. AND he played 15 years of football with the Giants, going to the Super Bowl and making it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

His wealth and accomplishments far, far exceed those of Lord Littlehands. And that's got to chap his orange hide.

[Scurrilous]

57. K&R