Obama Will Watch Super Bowl, Wishes Chicago Bears Playing

INDIANAPOLIS -- The First Fan has only one complaint about Sunday's Super Bowl: his favorite team isn't in it.

President Barack Obama says on Twitter he's "looking forward to catching some of the big game" between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. But he wishes "the Bears weren't watching it from home, too." Obama is a big fan of his hometown Chicago Bears and welcomed the 1985 team to the White House in October to celebrate their NFL title. The '85 Bears never got the traditional White House reception for Super Bowl champs, with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurring two days after their victory over the New England Patriots.

Sunday's tweet was signed "bo," meaning it came from the president himself.

Comments

[John Thomas Gaitor]

10:41 PM on 02/05/2012

They try to find anything in the world to dislike Obama but that's why im voting for him again in november because he is not getting a fair shake from certain people but alot of them people are just plain ignorant on why they dont like the man they didn't do it to george bush and all this stuff happen on his watch that obama is trying to undo i wouldn't dare vote for a republican right now especially mitt romney or the other repubs they dont even care about the poor and middle class so it's OBAMA 2012 for me

[emma richmond]

01:21 AM on 02/06/2012

Me to OBAMA 2012.

[venice6]

06:36 PM on 02/05/2012

Thank you for your diligent hard work for this Country, President Obama..

You rock!!