- A petition demanding the Chiefs release their first-option kicker has gone viral
- Butker, a married father of two, also criticized Joe Biden’s views on abortion.
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The Los Angeles Chargers have criticized Harrison Butker for his recent comments about women, as they savagely added a Sims character of the Chiefs kicker cooking in the kitchen as part of a video announcing their NFL schedule for the 2024 season. .
On the same day that a petition garnered more than 60,000 signatures demanding the Chiefs cut their first-option kicker on Wednesday, the Chargers trolled Butker by including him in the credits of their 3-minute, 20-second video, with his character from The Sims. showing him cooking and cleaning.
Butker, 28, a three-time Super Bowl champion, is facing backlash for his speech as commencement speaker at Benedictine College in Kansas last weekend, where he congratulated women who received their degrees and said most of them were probably more excited. more about getting married and having children than about forging their own careers.
Butker, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs known, also addressed Pride month, an important annual tradition for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and President Joe Biden’s views on abortion.
“I think it’s you women who have been told the most diabolical lies,” Butker said.
The LA Chargers berate Harrison Butker in a clip from their schedule for the 2024 NFL season
At the end of the video you can see the Chiefs kicker cooking and cleaning in the kitchen.
Last Saturday, the three-time Super Bowl champion expressed his narrow views on women.
‘Some of you may go on to have successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that most of you are more excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. “I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life really began when she began to live her calling as a wife and mother,” she stated.
Butker said his wife adopted “one of the most important titles of all.” She’s a housewife.
He also harshly criticized Catholic leaders for “pushing dangerous gender ideologies among America’s youth.”
What’s more, Butker received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees after delivering his roughly 20-minute speech Saturday.
He referred to a “mortal sin, a kind of pride to which a month is dedicated” in an indirect reference to Pride month. Butler also took aim at Biden’s policies, including his condemnation of the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and his defense of free choice, a key campaign issue in the 2024 presidential race.
Butker, who is from Georgia, has previously made his conservative Catholic beliefs known.
Biden, who is Catholic, has a complicated history about the topic. He initially opposed the Roe v. Wade, saying he was going too far.. He also opposed federal funding. for abortions and supported restrictions on subsequent abortions in pregnancy.
Butker also addressed Biden’s response to COVID-19, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“While COVID may have played a role during his formative years, it’s not the only one,” he said. ‘Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted important life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as growing support for degenerate cultural values and media, arise from the omnipresence of disorder.’
The Chiefs have not responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on Butker’s commencement speech.
The 2017 seventh-round pick out of Georgia Tech has become one of the NFL’s best kickers, breaking the Chiefs’ franchise record with a 62-yard field goal in 2022. Butker helped them win their first Super Bowl in 50 years in 2020, added a second Lombardi Trophy in 2023, and kicked the field goal that forced overtime in the Super Bowl victory over San Francisco in February.
