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The Los Angeles Chargers approached Harrison Butker over his recent comments about women when they brutally added a Sims character of the Chiefs kicker cooking in the kitchen as part of a video detailing their NFL schedule for the 2024 season was announced.
On the same day a petition gathered more than 60,000 signatures demanding the Chiefs cut their first-option kicker on Wednesday, the Chargers trolled Butker by including him in the end credits of their 3-minute, 20-second video , with his Sims character. showing him cooking and cleaning.
Butker — a 28-year-old, three-time Super Bowl champion — is facing backlash for his commencement address at Benedictine College in Kansas last weekend, where he congratulated the women earning degrees — and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children than building their own career.
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, the women, who have been told the most diabolical lies,” Butker said.
The LA Chargers taunted Harrison Butker in a clip of their schedule for the 2024 NFL season
At the end of the video, the Chiefs kicker can be seen cooking and cleaning in the kitchen
Last Saturday, the three-time Super Bowl champion expressed his narrow view of women
“Some of you may have successful careers in the world, but I would hazard a 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 that her life truly began when she began living her calling as a wife and as a mother,” he said.
Butker said his wife embraced “one of the most important titles of all.” Housewife.’
He also blasted Catholic leaders for “imbuing dangerous gender ideologies on America’s youth.”
In addition, Butker received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees after delivering his approximately 20-minute speech on Saturday.
He referred to a “deadly sin—kind of pride that a month is dedicated to” in an indirect reference to Pride month. Butler also took aim at Biden’s policies, including his condemnation of the Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and his advocacy for freedom of 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 fraught history about the issue. He initially opposed the Roe v. Wade decision, saying it went too far. He also opposed federal funding for abortions and later supported restrictions on abortions during the pregnancy.
Butker also addressed Biden’s response to COVID-19, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“While COVID may have played a major role during your formative years, it is not unique,” he said. ‘Bad policies and leadership have negatively affected major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as growing support for degenerate cultural values and media, all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.”
The Chiefs did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on Butker’s commencement address.
The 2017 seventh-round pick out of Georgia Tech has emerged as 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 he kicked the field goal that forced overtime in a Super Bowl win over San Francisco in February.