The NFL’s biggest story the past few weeks has been Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker making a speech at Benedictine College’s graduation ceremony. In this now super viral speech, Butker encouraged women to stay at home as opposed to focusing on their careers.
Harrison Butker’s Viral Speech
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Almost everyone now has made their comments on the viral speech, in which the main part that many fans took issue with was:
“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you,” Butker said. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most 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 her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
These comments created a storm on social media with fans even calling for Butker to be cut because of his ideas. While Butker has been attacked for his views by the world, his fellow teammate and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes did not think his comments warranted such backlash.
Mahomes finally revealed his thoughts on the speech, and he thinks of Butker as a dear friend for seven years.
Patrick Mahomes Disagrees But Backs His Friend Harrison Butker
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Super Bowl MVP Mahomes avoided the topic for many days, but now he finally broke his silence on his relationship with his teammate and how he feels about the speech. The Chiefs quarterback was candid about his relationship with Harrison, and how he knows Butker on a very personal level:
“I’ve known him for seven years. I judge him by the character he shows every day and that’s a good person,” Mahomes said. “…There’s comments I didn’t necessarily agree with…there’s certain values that people emphasize more than others. We’re not always going to agree. He said certain things I don’t agree with. I know what kind of person he is, and I’m going to make sure I look at that first.”
Mahomes spoke with Taylor about Butkers comments but he did not reveal which parts of the speech that he diagreed with. Taylor shared his take on Mahomes’ thoughts after saying:
“Patrick Mahomes has made it pretty clear during this news conference that he considers Harrison Butker a close friend. He declined to share exactly what he disagreed most with Butker’s comments from his speech,” Taylor said.
Mahomes had a very reasonable take on this controversy and probably a voice and message that we should have heard more off following all speech. Mahomes thinks of his teammate as a good person, and while he may disagree with some of his views, he knows who the man is as a person. Hats off to Super Bowl MVP for this response, as it could not have been said any better.
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