The Los Angeles Chargers released a video of its schedule for the upcoming season, during which it poked fun at a speech Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker recently made.
The Chargers video used footage from The Sims video game, and featured various football players from opposing teams doing different tasks, with the video also showing when the Chargers would be facing off with each team. Among the athletes featured was Butker working in the kitchen and garden, likely a reference to his recent commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic school, when he encouraged the women graduating to embrace their role as a “homemaker.”
Many users on X were amused at the slight at Butker.
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The NFL has distanced itself from Butker’s comments, arguing that he made his speech “in his personal capacity” and that his views “are not those of the NFL as an organization.”
In the wake of his speech, a petition online has been launched to demand the Kansas City Chiefs dismiss Butker for his “discriminatory remarks,” with the petition at over 100,000 signatures as of Thursday morning. Butker had criticized gender ideology as well as President Joe Biden for supporting the “murder of innocent babies” during his speech.
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Butker, a devout Catholic, has protested Biden in the past. He wore a tie with an anti-abortion message during a visit to the White House last year to “represent the unborn.” In an interview earlier this year, the Chiefs player described the unborn as “the greatest victims in our society” because they are unable to defend or speak out for themselves, and he felt that his White House visit was the best place to voice his support for them.
“So to have a tie that in Latin I thought brought attention to the unborn, because I am trying to learn more Latin, with going to the Latin Mass, I picked ‘Vulnerari Praesidio’ which is to protect the most vulnerable,” Butker said.
