NFL Pushes Back On Harrison Butker's Bigoted Graduation Speech

[ProudMNDemocrat]

Looks like Harrison Butker is in hot water with the NFL. Good! Millions of NFL fans happen to be women whether at the games or watching on TV. Millions also happen to be Taylor Swift fans as well as their daughters. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker got no love from the league after his polarizing remarks.

The NFL on Wednesday issued a measured rebuke of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his ultraconservative blather during a college graduation speech.

Butker slammed abortion rights, the LGBTQ community and diversity initiatives, and suggested women should be far more eager to be homemakers than to pursue careers.

In his remarks to Benedictine College on Saturday, he even managed to tick off fans of Taylor Swift by referring to her merely as teammate Travis Kelce’s “girlfriend.”

Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a statement. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Surprised that TSF didn't endorse

Butler’s statement— unless his handlers grabbed the phone out of his tiny fingers.

[JPPaverage]

2. Let's see if he gets blackballed like Kaepernick

Somehow I doubt if he will.

[Traurigkeit]

14. First kick attempt. Will his offensive line break down unusually quickly. EMTs better be on hand

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

24. Commentary over the game.

"Butker got sacked from three different directions at once as we can see on this slowmotion replay. There is a stretcher on the field but Butker seems to be unconscious. He is not responding as he is being carried off the field. Boy I wish someone would put his dangling leg back on the stretcher. We'll be right back."

[LiberalFighter]

3. Just tick off Taylor Swift fans?

How about teammate Travis Kelce?

[RockRaven]

4. Obvious unsaid portion: "Excluding people is bad for revenue growth, duh"

That's all they care about.

[poli-junkie]

5. Eff Harry BUTker!

[Indykatie]

6. Butker's Mother Holds Advanced Degrees and is a Clinical Medical Physicist at Emory University

Where TF did he get his backward ass ideas on the appropriate role for women?

[IbogaProject]

8. Blows to his head?

Or he is just a bad seed.

[Iggo]

12. But young Harry can kick the dickens out of a football like nobody's business.

So that’s pretty even.

[Ray Bruns]

15. The Catholic Church.

[Traurigkeit]

16. Grade School, High School, College locker rooms and coaches and team mates

[liberalla]

19. She must be so proud...

[Iggo]

20. Church. (n/t)

[werdna]

7. Good thing he didn't take a knee -

- during the National Anthem to protest the ongoing systemic persecution and extrajudicial killings by the police of people of his race. He might be drummed out of the NFL and blacklisted if he had.

[rubbersole]

9. I'll bet the Chiefs are shopping for a different kicker since yesterday.

Taylor Swift has been responsible for more KC merch sales than anything else. Super bowls notwithstanding.

[3825-87867]

10. Got a feeling this coming Kansas City Team may have

a more than usual number of roughing the kicker penalties on field goal attempts.

[niyad]

11. Some interesting Alumni from Benedictine College, including Wangari Mathai

(1964) , and Chris Ruitt (1881l, inventor of Aunt Jemima baking mix.

[KS Toronado]

13. Seen this on local news last night

First thought was he's dividing the locker room into 2 camps which is not conducive to a TEAM effort at
winning football games. Believe he just wrote his own pink slip.

[Warpy]

17. Conyract might not be renewed

Saying half the human race are the natural slaves of the other half is not popular anywhere but inside really, really bad wingnut churches here and there, which is likely where he got it.

[KS Toronado]

18. Believe they mentioned last night he was Catholic

But don't quote me on that, might be thinking of someone else.

[Warpy]

21. "Charismatic Catholics"

are fundies with statuary.

[LeonidPlanck]

22. This!

Made me laugh! Ah, perspective.

[KS Toronado]

23. The cartoonists are gearing up