Some 11 days after Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave his decidedly un-woke commencement address at Benedictine College, the activist left and their media allies are still out for blood, and were hoping to get it Wednesday during a Chiefs media availability.
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At the press conference, of course, were coach Andy Reid and Butker’s high-profile teammate, quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Not surprisingly, both were asked about Butker’s speech and the media-driven uproar over it. Fortunately, neither one of them took the bait offered by their questioners and instead defended Butker.
Here’s what Mahomes had to say:
“I’ve known him for seven years. I judge him by the character he shows every day and that’s a good person,” Mahomes told reporters at Chiefs OTAs on Wednesday.
“That’s someone who cares about the people around him, cares about his family, and wants to make a good impact in society. When you’re in a locker room, you’re around a lot of people from a lot of different areas of life, and they have a lot of different views on everything. We’re not always going to agree. He said certain things I don’t agree with.
“But I understand the person that he is. He’s trying to do whatever he can to lead people in the right direction, and that might not be the same values that I have. But at the same time I’m going to judge him by the character he shows every day, and that’s a good person.”
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Here was how Reid addressed it:
“Listen, I talk to Harrison all the time. I didn’t talk to him about this, didn’t think we needed to,” Reid said. “We’re a microcosm of life. Everybody’s from different areas, different religions, different races. So we all get along, we all respect each other’s opinions and not necessarily do we go by those, but we respect everybody to have a voice. That’s the great thing about America, man, and we’re just, like I said, a microcosm of that. My wish is that everybody could kind of follow that.”
Reid also quipped, “I let you guys in this room and you have a lot of opinions that I don’t like, so.”
Watch Mahomes’ and Reid’s respective responses below:
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This is the way. They didn’t throw him under the bus and defended his right to say what he did. Reid’s response was especially noteworthy considering he is being looked upon by some to discipline Butker for giving a pro-Catholic speech to a Catholic college in a private capacity and not as a representative of the Chiefs’ organization.
Sometimes, the good guys really do win. And in this instance, I think Butker is definitely winning.
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