Chiefs’ Harrison Butker defiant over controversial commencement speech
NY Post
NEW ORLEANS — Harrison Butker knows that you might not agree with his core beliefs, because some of his own teammates don’t.
A season that will end with Butker kicking field goals in Super Bowl 2025 for the Chiefs began with him in the national spotlight for a very different reason.
While delivering the commencement speech at Benedictine College, Butker, a devout Christian, opined that more women in the audience were excited about starting a family than having a career and mentioned a “deadly sin sort of pride that has a month dedicated to it” in a reference to Pride Month.
“God has given me this platform and I’m going to say what I believe to be true and what I hold close to my heart,” Butker said Monday night when asked to revisit those remarks. “Anything that comes, I’m blessed to be on the Chiefs and be in another Super Bowl.”
Butker said the comments made in May “opened up a lot of good conversations” among teammates.
“A lot of guys had different opinions about it,” Butker said, “but we all love each other in that locker room. We all know who we are. All the guys understood where I was coming from. They respect me. They respect what I have to say. And I have nothing to apologize for.”
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