#anti kansas city chiefs

[lt-sarai]

can swift and kelce just fucking break up please she's ruining the NFL and that means she's making my husband miserable and he won't stop bitching to me about it. I would really like to not hear about the chiefs anymore.

[rosesvioletshardy]

praying and wishing terrible and horrible things upon everyone who is involved with the kansas city chiefs

not sorry i’m a california girlie through and through

[swiftlyticklish]

@taylorswift

You are showing your true colors now during a very important year. A lot of us queer folks were fooled by your fake “ally” act but we are no longer being fooled by that. You’ve shown us that you support homophobia, racism, and sexism through your constant support and happiness around MAGA idiots.

What ever happened to fuck the patriarchy? What about the 1950s shit they want from you? Was that all a lie? Then you just go and post more merch to make more money off of the fans you don’t give a flying fuck about. Get that bag sis, but it’s not gonna be from those you don’t support. If you don’t support us, we don’t support you.

[empty-flat-n-lonely-bys]

If you thought Swifties were unbearable before, I'm so sorry cause they are superbowl champions now. No one's gonna shut up about it

[zot3-flopped]

****

So many articles covering this today. Taylor Swift is going to be seen as a curse on the Chiefs if Travis doesn't bulk up and improve his game.

Powerful: Travis in July 2022.

Diminished: Travis on Sunday.

[justinssportscorner]

Cyd Zeigler at Outsports:

Harrison Butker, an NFL player who recently won the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs, used a graduation speech this weekend to attack the LGBTQ community and tell women to forget about a career and serve their man instead. Butker was the commencement speaker at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. This is the same Benedictine College that several years ago forced Jallen Messersmith, an out gay basketball player at the school, to remove a Pride flag.

After attacking “dangerous gender ideologies” in his speech — a clear slam at the transgender community — Butker highlighted a recent Associated Press article that discussed how Benedictine College and the Catholic Church are seeing “an immense shift toward the old ways.” He said that while the AP intended it to create anger, instead people in the Church took “pride” in the article. “Not the deadly sins sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it,” he said in a clear slam at Pride Month this June, “but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the holy ghost to glorify him.” He also took a large chunk of his speech to speak directly to the women in the audience. He said that while many of them likely are excited to start a career and get promotions, they should instead consider the only vocation that will make them most happy: homemaker.

Kansas City Chiefs K Harrison Butker gave a commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas last weekend.

During his commencement speech, Butker launched sexist, homophobic, and transphobic attacks against women in the workforce, LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and LGBTQ+ people in general.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: NFL player rants about Pride Month celebrating “deadly sins” in graduation speech as audience groans

The Advocate: Harrison Butker’s ‘inaccurate, ill-informed and woefully out of step' sexist speech is fact-checked by GLAAD

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Li Zhou at Vox:

NFL kicker Harrison Butker is facing widespread backlash after giving a college commencement speech that casually dabbled in misogyny and homophobia. Butker, who has won three Super Bowls with the Kansas City Chiefs in recent years, delivered the address at Benedictine College, a private Catholic institution in Kansas, on May 11. In it, he criticizes everything from women prioritizing professional careers to Pride Month to abortion access.

An outspoken conservative who is close with leading right-wing figures including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Butker’s speech closely echoed Republican rhetoric and fixated on issues that have been popular fodder for conservatives as they try to mobilize their voters ahead of the 2024 election. “I think it is you, the women who have had the most diabolical lies told to you,” Butker said in his speech. “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.”

The Chiefs have not commented on Butker’s remarks and the NFL league office distanced itself from them. “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,” Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, told People. Butker’s speech advances the same agenda that the GOP has been pushing not only in its rhetoric but through policy. At least 21 Republican-led state legislatures have approved laws that ban or restrict abortion access and at least 20 have approved bills that curb access to gender-affirming care for minors. Butker’s remarks — which emphasized people “staying in [their] lane” — are the latest attempt to weaponize religion to achieve the same goals.

The backlash to Butker’s speech, explained

Butker joined the NFL in 2017, and is considered by some analysts to be one of the best kickers in the league. In recent years, he’s also been vocal about his support for conservative causes. On his Instagram page, Butker is pictured alongside Sen. Hawley, a darling of the religious right. He was previously photographed with Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a white couple that pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020. And during the Chiefs’ visit to the White House in 2023, he wore a tie expressing his opposition to abortion rights.

The Chiefs have been in the cultural spotlight not only for their on-field success but also thanks to tight end Travis Kelce’s relationship with pop star Taylor Swift. Butker referenced a Swift song lyric in his 20-minute speech and described Swift, a music mogul who is one of the most famous people on the planet as “my teammate’s girlfriend.” (For the curious, Butker cited the Swift lyric, “familiarity breeds contempt” in order to criticize priests who rely too much on parishioners for adulation and support.)

Kansas City Chiefs K Harrison Butker made a commencement speech at Benedictine College last weekend that drew lots of controversy, including his sexist and antifeminist view on women in careers, his anti-LGBTQ+/anti-trans statements, and his anti-abortion extremism he espoused in his speech.

He delivered small kick energy and heapings of hate.

[allpromarlo]

chiefs fell tf off after pollution master swift got on the train i know who i'm blaming

[jewishbarbies]

ahh the irony of it being the Chiefs' kicker saying women have been lied to about education and should instead be mothers at home worshiping god during his speech at a college graduation

[frenchpuppycormier]

When you wanna watch the 49ers but you can’t because the fucking Chiefs are on instead, probably because of Taylor Swift 🙄 Can’t go anywhere without hearing about her and Travis Kelce.

[bejeweled-wahlberg]

I’m still gonna love Donnie and all but mark being a cheifs fan god no

[swiftlyticklish]

She hardly “endorsed” Kamala. She talked more about Tim Walz because god forbid another woman have the spotlight 🙄

Sure she’s allowed to attend her bfs game. She doesn’t have to attend the one before the most important day in America. She chose to put money above the greater good of people. There are celebrities out there who have more to lose than her who are out there visibly supporting Harris.

Why wasn’t Taylor at any of her rallies? And btw there were MANY male celebrities who did more than her. Even fucking Paul Rudd was out there in PA helping college students vote. She has WAY more of a platform than him but chose to sit this out for her convenience.

Im all for slandering male celebrities for not doing their part, but we also need to hold billionaires like her accountable.

And btw, a majority of people on here agree she should’ve done more than write a post made by AI. Didn’t even have the decency to write it out herself.

AND SHE FUCKING CHOSE TO BE SEEN AND BE BUDDIES WITH MAGA IDIOTS

Actions speak louder than words. Her words don’t mean shit when she’s cozying up to republicans

@taylorswift

If Kamala Harris does not win this election, I hope you realize how much of an impact you made in a negative way. You have the power and the platform to change the future for the better for generations to come. Yet you decided to attend your “boyfriends” football game and hang out with guys who abuse people, are homophobic, racist and MAGA idiots who are selfish

You are showing the world that you don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourself. You get richer while your queer fans and women supporters suffer just because you refused to open your damn mouth

Why are you scared of being seen with Kamala Harris but you’re fine with being seen with the Kelce’s? Accepting gifts from the right wing extremist Hunt family?

Pennsylvania is a key swing state and yet you decided to do nothing.

And to all you hetlors going after Karlie, just know she did way more to help marginalized groups than your beloved princess. She fought for you while Taylor walked around touting her MAGA ties the night before the fucking election. And not just any election. This election is going to shape our lives for YEARS. So when shit hits the fan, just remember, Taylor hid when the country needed her the most.

[holidayslinger]

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[cyarsk52-20]

yep, it’s still 🖕the nfl they still ain’t said I’m sorry nor sign him back so it’s a back turned, lashings, foot on their necks and a very merry go to hell nfl I don’t know you!

I’m still with Colin Kaepernick.

[justinssportscorner]

Dave Zirin at The Nation:

Harrison Butker resides at the bottom of the most majestic mountain in the National Football League: the least important player on the most important team. Butker is the placekicker for the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. He is very good at his job, but no matter how many field goals he sends through the uprights, he is the lowest-caste athlete in the locker room, somewhere behind the assistant strength coaches but ahead of the office interns. (Adam Sandler wrote the song “The Lonesome Kicker” for a reason.)

Yet, even though merely a kicker, Butker’s star is on the rise in spaces far from the football field. Looking like the handsome, dashing villain in a World War II film, he is no longer lonesome. Butker has a new home away from football at the right-wing edge of US politics. Earlier this year, Butker “very intentionally,” as he put it, announced his “traditional Catholic” views while delivering a commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal-arts school in Kansas. Butker chided the women in the audience for their ambition and expressed the trad-Catholic doctrine that their only true happiness would be as a wife and fertile mother. He praised his own wife, Isabella, saying that she would be “the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother” and expressed his joy over the fact that she has embraced “one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.”

Butker, true to his predicable anti-LGBTQ views and staunch anti-abortion activism, also criticized “liberal Catholic leaders,” whom he faults with “pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” He also attacked the “tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion” and cried out against “things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media,” which supposedly “all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.” Targeting the male graduates, Butker told them to “be unapologetic in your masculinity,” and to “fight against the cultural emasculation of men.” Happy graduation, everyone!

Butker wants to loudly and proudly spread the belief that the ills of the 21st century are rooted in the resistance of women to get married and “love, honor, and obey” (heavy on the “obey”) their husbands. If this all sounds familiar, it’s the gospel of JD Vance and his contempt for cat-owning single women as well as all women—let’s be real, white women—who don’t see themselves as born to breed. That Butker’s own mother, Dr. Elizabeth Butker, has been a medical physicist at Emory University’s department of radiation oncology since 1988 suggests that he needs less time giving speeches and more time in therapy.

[...]

Butker wants in on this gravy train. He has already garnered headlines for endorsing the insurrectionist cheerer and running enthusiast Senator Josh Hawley, who looks at Butker like Ingrid Bergman stared at Humphrey Bogart. Now, with that friendship in his pocket, he has started a political action committee to encourage Christians to vote for “traditional values.” Its name is UPRIGHT PAC.

[...] Kansas City Chiefs franchise owner Clark Hunt praised Butker for starting the PAC. Hunt’s family has existed in the shadowy right-wing margins of this nation’s politics for generations. (His grandfather the billionaire oil tycoon H.L. Hunt was a white supremacist, and his half-brother Lamar Hunt Jr. is helping to fund the opposition to abortion in Missouri.) [...]

It’s because of Kaepernick’s legacy—and the desire to bury it—that the MAGA GOP is so besotted with Butker. The NFL has traditionally been a cultural space where the right has found comfort, commonality, and votes. Yet there was Donald Trump in 2016 and 2017 calling for NFL boycotts and saying in a Huntsville, Alabama, speech that kneeling players are “sons of bitches” who should be fired. This created confusion among that All-American cross section of men who are NFL fans but also have their nose up Trump’s orange ass. Meanwhile, here is Tim Walz, Mr. Football, running out to the 50-yard-line. In Butker, the hard right—the Christian Zionists braying for the Rapture, the January 6 insurrectionists crying for the freedom to seize the Capitol—finally has a foothold among the NFL players, not just their bosses. Yes, there have always been right-wing players, generations of right-wing Christian quarterbacks, and even more than a few GOP politicians that have come out of the National Football League. But Butker is not just a part of the fellowship of Christian athletes wanting to do Bible study after Wednesday lifts. He sees himself as being in an ideological battle. I have to wonder, though, if he understands the unintended consequences of his political stances so supported by his boss.

Kansas City K Harrison Butker formed a far-right PAC called Upright PAC focused on anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, and anti-IVF extremism.