NFL Pushes Back On Harrison Butker's Bigoted Graduation Speech [View all]

Looks like Harrison Butker is in hot water with the NFL. Good! Millions of NFL fans happen to be women whether at the games or watching on TV. Millions also happen to be Taylor Swift fans as well as their daughters. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker got no love from the league after his polarizing remarks.

The NFL on Wednesday issued a measured rebuke of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his ultraconservative blather during a college graduation speech.

Butker slammed abortion rights, the LGBTQ community and diversity initiatives, and suggested women should be far more eager to be homemakers than to pursue careers.

In his remarks to Benedictine College on Saturday, he even managed to tick off fans of Taylor Swift by referring to her merely as teammate Travis Kelce’s “girlfriend.”

Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in a statement. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”

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