Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has no issues with his kicker, Harrison Butker, launching a political PAC.
Last weekend, Butker appeared alongside Missouri senator Josh Hawley and announced the formation of the UPRIGHT PAC, which Butker described as “a way to promote and encourage Christian voters to vote.”
Hunt spoke to reporters earlier this week.
“One of the things I talk to the players every year about at training camp is using their platform to make a difference,” Hunt said. “Obviously, we have players on both sides of the political spectrum, both sides of whatever controversial issue you want to bring up. I’m not at all concerned when our players use their platform to make a difference for what they believe in.”
Butker is one of the best kickers in the NFL and has been a big part of the Chiefs teams that have won three Super Bowl championships in the last four years.
His PAC’s website says that, “We’re seeing our values under attack every day. In our schools, in the media, and even from our own government. But we have a chance to fight back and reclaim the traditional values that have made this country great.”
Butker became a polarizing figure this past offseason after he gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College in which he touted that embracing traditional gender roles of the husband as the breadwinner and the wife as the homemaker has been what’s best for his family.
Star Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was asked about Butker’s speech during OTAs in May.
“I’ve known him for seven years. I judge him by the character he shows every day, and that’s a good person,” Mahomes said of Butker.
“We’re not always going to agree. He said certain things I don’t agree with.”
