Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame
Source: Washington Post
Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame
I think were going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event on Thursday.
April 18, 2026 at 2:12 p.m. EDT Today at 2:12 p.m. EDT
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President Donald Trump joined NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser last year to announce plans to host the 2027 NFL Draft in Washington. (Annabelle Gordon/For The Washington Post)
By Dan Diamond
The Trump administration has urged professional footballs leaders to induct Theodore Roosevelt into the sports hall of fame, with one top official predicting it will happen within the year.
Id say keep it a secret. Keep your fingers crossed. But I think were going to see Theodore Roosevelt inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at an event Thursday at the National Portrait Gallery, touting the former presidents work to make the game safer.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/18/nfl-hall-theodore-roosevelt-trump/
There's a payoff in here somewhere.
The New York Post was the first paper to have the story. It is not acceptable as a news source in LBN.
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displacedvermoter
(4,752 posts)He should be inducted as well!
ShazzieB
(22,716 posts)I say induct them together!
displacedvermoter
(4,752 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,861 posts)I should be inducted too.
Lochloosa
(16,758 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,861 posts)I thought they just rode on surfboards.
rubbersole
(11,250 posts)You can get 4 quarters out of a dollar bill.
🙌 - Go Canes!
Irish_Dem
(81,861 posts)They go to play for Florida schools, they have been told the girls attend class in their bikinis!
Is this actually true, the girls go to school half naked?
Some of our players have fallen for this promise hook line and sinker.
I guess it is true that Florida girls aren't wearing six layers of winter clothing a lot of the time.
rubbersole
(11,250 posts)Ironically, it's the spring breakers (just over) from the Midwest and North that can't seem to show enough flesh. Very pale flesh, but flesh nonetheless. I live near the beach and going to the grocery store around Easter is always a study in "nothing left to the imagination" anatomy. Not a complaint, just an observation.
Irish_Dem
(81,861 posts)Florida girls go almost naked to family reunions with grandma and the aunts in attendance?
That would not fly in Ohio. Girls would be sent out to go get themselves covered up.
Of course what the same girls do on Easter break is their own business.
Every one told the Ohio football players the the Florida coaches were lying
and the girls in Florida did not parade around in bikinis everywhere.
But come to think of it the southern cheerleaders look like working girls.
rubbersole
(11,250 posts)..down the road when it began to sputter and stall. She coasted in to a service station and a mechanic came out and asked "What's wrong?"
She said "I don't know. It just died."
"Pop the hood and I'll take a look." After about ten minutes he looked up and said "OK, try it now."
She turned the key and it cranked right up. "What was wrong?"
He said "Crap in the carburetor."
She asked ""Well, how often do I have to do that?"
Irish_Dem
(81,861 posts)Either are the football players.
Pesky1
(64 posts)I'd invite one of those cold stadium tough teams to Gainesville, Florida early in September, when it is 85 degrees in the evening. Against one of the good Florida teams. Love to watch all the cold stadium fat boys run around dripping sweat, huffing and puffing.
I'm a Tennessee fan and have seen this heat in action.
genxlib
(6,151 posts)Class of 88
Permanut
(8,456 posts)flashman13
(2,455 posts)walkingman
(10,982 posts)The "Ted Cruz Curse" is a sports superstition among Texans, holding that Texas-based sports teams lose when Senator Ted Cruz attends their games or cheers for them.
underpants
(196,842 posts)sop
(18,889 posts)Wonder Why
(7,145 posts)Immigration going good, no issues with corruption, an honest government and looking forward to a friendly election season, he's entitled to his first day off in a year.
ProfessorGAC
(76,977 posts)Why the heck are they even giving this effort a thought?
Who cares?
Besides, TR would have fought all the economic ideals they push.
He was hardly an ally to their philosophy. I would think they'd be more prone to trying to write him out of US hustory.
Srkdqltr
(9,833 posts)jls4561
(3,207 posts)If this bunch of bozos actually wanted to honor the spirit of TR, they would preserve his legacy of reverence for the natural wonders of this country.
GenThePerservering
(3,500 posts)Let them nominate a radical nature lover who supported national health care!
blue-wave
(5,368 posts)have just a frown on her face. That looks like a scowl to me. Did anyone coerce her to be there?
KPN
(17,441 posts)billionaires own own Trump told them to be there, and support Trump.
Talitha
(8,082 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,101 posts)An Old-School Method of Testing Football Helmets from 1912

rubbersole
(11,250 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,752 posts)for both neuromuscular disorders and brain worms.
Polybius
(21,994 posts)I know it's 1912, but someone had to have known that it could cause permanent damage.
Brother Buzz
(40,101 posts)
displacedvermoter
(4,752 posts)rules brought in to improve safety, like kickoff rule, quarterback protection rules, and other attempts at injury prevention. Not sure what brought this on.
Mysterian
(6,567 posts)How have we not yet revolted against the insanity?
bmichaelh
(1,217 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 11:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Has anyone told them although he is considered a Republican, he would probably have very little in common with Trump's Republican party.
He left the Republican Party and joined the Progressive Party.
He was also a trust buster in some cases.
I saw the film The Longest Day recently.
Henry Fonda, played his son in that movie and he stormed the beaches on D-Day and despite having arthritis, he refused to use that as excuse to avoid combat.
Rob H.
(5,868 posts)SunSeeker
(58,338 posts)Henry203
(944 posts)Has no idea who Teddy Roosevelt was.
eggplant
(4,218 posts)KPN
(17,441 posts)National Forest and National Park systems. He was actually a progressive.
BidenRocks
(3,376 posts)magats don't like regulations.
Let them play 1904 rules!
RockRaven
(19,555 posts)And why should The Dotard be in the pro football HOF? Because fuck you, that's why.
Firestorm49
(4,558 posts)BidenRocks
(3,376 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,999 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,956 posts)My late husband is laughing his ass off.
twodogsbarking
(18,999 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,956 posts)I can hear Robin Williams's voice about now.
oberle
(383 posts)onenote
(46,188 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(16,223 posts)Even if he hadn't mis-managed everything that has come across his path during both terms in office, this would still be still be a 'what the hell are you doing?' moment.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,360 posts)You can tell, because this is in DU's LBN. Even if nothing has actually happened yet, all of us must go along with the Trump regime's claim that every idea that crosses his tiny mind is Important, and must be reported as Breaking.
That this is a vague description of a future argument about whether TR 's intervention in the amateur game is of sufficient import to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn't matter; US news is All Trump, All The Time. It's not just that Trump ought to have more important things to do; it's that the US, even DU, has been bent to his demented will so much that we ought to have more important things to regard as "News", but don't.
Prairie Gates
(8,307 posts)Ocelot II
(130,842 posts)Supposedly he played baseball relatively competently while in high school, which he will claim entitles him to a spot in Cooperstown, or at least an MVP award. I think they give you a nice plaque. It would have to be gold, of course.
rsdsharp
(12,058 posts)The NFL was founded September 17, 1920. Teddy did zip for pro football; college football, maybe, but not pro as far as I can see.
valleyrogue
(2,759 posts)Then support our national park system.