The mother of controversial Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is an accomplished and decorated scientist, DailyMail.com can reveal.
It comes after the Super Bowl winner controversially said a woman’s life doesn’t “really” begin until she gets married and has children.
But, ironically, his own mother is Elizabeth Keller Butker, a physicist who works at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. according to your LinkedIn profile.
Elizabeth has several academic honors, including a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Smith College, a private liberal arts school for women in Massachusetts.
The mother of two earned her master’s degree in medical physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology before joining Emory in 1988, where she specializes in brachytherapy and Gamma Knife medical physics care.
Harrison Butker’s mother, Elizabeth Keller Butker, is a physicist who works at Emory University.
The accomplished scientist holds several academic recognitions, including a master’s degree.
The mother of two earned a master’s degree in medical physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The revelation that Elizabeth is highly accomplished in the medical field comes in the wake of her son’s sexist comments during a commencement speech at Benedictine College last week.
‘“I think it’s you women who have been told the most diabolical lies,” she said, before suggesting that female graduates were “more excited” about getting married and having children, rather than pursuing careers.
“I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly began when she began to live her calling as a wife and mother,” he continued.
‘Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true. But if you asked her today if she regretted her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say, “Hell no.”
The irony of Harrison being raised by a successful career woman, whom he didn’t mention in his speech, was not lost on fans.
Harrison made several sexist comments during a speech at Benedictine College last week.
He said his wife Isabelle’s life “really began” when she got married and had children.
Elsewhere in the speech, the father of two said it was important for women to be homemakers.
‘Did his life even begin? “She did not rely on the housewife vocation that women require as her son said,” one person said. he joked about X.
‘I wonder what his mom thought about his speech?’ Another intervened.
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 and earning three Super Bowl rings. .
Although the Chiefs have yet to comment on his comments, an NFL spokesperson said Harrison’s views “are not those of the NFL as an organization.”
