{"id":2248509,"date":"2024-05-20T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meltdown-kc-outlet-publishes-piece-saying-chiefs-should-replace-harrison-butker-with-a-woman-after-viral-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T10:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:06:34","slug":"meltdown-kc-outlet-publishes-piece-saying-chiefs-should-replace-harrison-butker-with-a-woman-after-viral-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meltdown-kc-outlet-publishes-piece-saying-chiefs-should-replace-harrison-butker-with-a-woman-after-viral-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Outlet Suggests Chiefs Replace Butker with Woman Post Viral Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeltdown-kc-outlet-publishes-piece-saying-chiefs-should-replace-harrison-butker-with-a-woman-after-viral-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248509&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article by C. Douglas Golden discusses the controversy surrounding Kansas City \u2064Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker&#8217;s\u200c support for traditional Christian values. \u200bCritics like Peter Hamm suggest replacing Butker with a female kicker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sinema-unleashes-on-republicans-who-rejected-border-deal-dont-come-to-arizona\/\" title=\"Sinema slams GOP for rejecting border deal: 'Stay away from Arizona\">citing recent events<\/a>\u2064 and the inclusion of women in \u2063professional sports. However, the feasibility and implications of such a change are debatable. \u2063The piece \u2063by C. Douglas Golden delves into the uproar over Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker&#8217;s endorsement\u2063 of traditional Christian values. Critics, \u2063including Peter Hamm, propose replacing Butker \u2064with a female kicker in light of recent developments in professional sports. The\u200b practicality\u2064 and consequences of such a move spark discussions and varying viewpoints.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>    <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 20, 2024 at 5:22am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Of all the forms of howling outrage Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has unleashed by sticking up for traditional Christian family values, I\u2019ll give Peter Hamm this much: At least his howling outrage was novel.<\/p>\n<p>Hamm is one of the many offering Very Serious Opinions\u2122 on Butker\u2019s viral commencement speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-throws-conservative-chiefs-star-bus-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedictine College in Kansas<\/a> earlier this month, all of which seem to revolve around what the appropriate punishment should be for a Catholic sharing his views of his Catholic faith with graduates at a Catholic school.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these opinions have involved Butker being cut or \u201cdismissed\u201d from the team. Some have used more novel forms of punishment \u2014 such as whoever was behind the official account for the city of Kansas City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kansas-city-doxes-christian-nfl-player-controversial-speech-ag-demands-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which doxed Butker<\/a> over his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Hamm, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who authored a guest opinion meltdown in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/kc-chiefs-fire-harrison-butker-154028688.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Star<\/a>, is among the former contingent, so that part isn\u2019t quite the novelty. The headline, however, argues for a different form of atonement for the team that currently employs him: \u201cThe KC Chiefs should fire Harrison Butker and hire someone who kicks like a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, not just \u201clike a girl\u201d \u2014 someone who <em>is<\/em> a girl.<\/p>\n<p>This, Hamm wrote in the Friday piece, would be \u201cpoetic justice after Harrison Butker\u2019s Neanderthal outburst\u201d \u2014 and he insists \u201cthe pipeline of talent is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a joke. It\u2019s not unrealistic. And it would be good for business. Just ask the University of Manitoba how ticket sales were last year,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a joke\u201d depends on your definition of what a \u201cjoke\u201d is at the NFL level. Mr. Hamm is referring to the fact that kicker Maya Turner started for the University of Manitoba Bisons, becoming \u201cthe first woman to play and score in a regular-season U Sports football game,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.umanitoba.ca\/bisons-kicker-maya-turner-makes-history-becoming-first-woman-to-play-score-in-regular-season-u-sports-football-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UM Today<\/a>, the university\u2019s news website.<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba, for those of you who are geographically challenged, is in Canada \u2014 a country that produces some excellent hockey players and curlers, but where the level of gridiron football talent is rather, um, insignificant compared to that which exists in the United States, especially at the upper echelons of the NCAA pyramid.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you stand with Harrison Butker?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Indeed, Turner is from Minnesota; the fact she\u2019s playing for a team north of the border should tell you how ready she is for that kind of competition. Hamm is impressed that she hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steelers-lions-tie-leaving-some-players-confused\/\" title=\"Steelers, Lions Tie, Leaving Some Players Confused\">48-yard field goal<\/a>, which is certainly laudable, but nothing to crow about at the top levels of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou give me 55 Maya Turners, and I\u2019ll give you a championship at whatever sport you\u2019re on,\u201d one of her coaches said, according to Hamm.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but\u2026 that coach is currently at the <em>University of Manitoba<\/em>, it\u2019s worth reiterating, and not in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-admits-taylor-swift-impacted-2024-schedule-claims-conspiracy-theorists-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> \u2014 where the prevailing wisdom is that muscular 300-lb. linemen are best suited to protect 6\u20195\u2033 quarterbacks who can launch the ball 70 yards in the air and hit \u2014 in perfect stride \u2014 a wide receiver who can run a 4.4-second 40-yard dash in perfect stride.<\/p>\n<p>These are talents which \u2014 even if women were administered a daily cocktail of PEDs that would make Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds and the old East German women\u2019s swim team go googly-eyed in horror \u2014 would continue to exclusively belong to those with Y chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamm is talking about kicking. And there\u2019s Sarah Fuller, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vanderbilts-latest-publicity-stunt-reveals-leftist-feminists-truly-believe-women-second-rate-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked for Vanderbilt University<\/a>. That\u2019s a team in the Southeastern Conference, an NCAA \u201cPower Five\u201d school. Surely that\u2019s a sign that women are ready for prime-time as kickers in football, right?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re unfamiliar with college football, that\u2019s a <em>no<\/em> \u2014 in italics.<\/p>\n<p>The Vanderbilt Commodores are to SEC football what the Washington Generals are to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-harlem-globetrotters-great-curly-neal-dies-77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harlem Globetrotters<\/a>, a convenient punching (or kicking, if you like) bag that\u2019s always good for an easy W.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2021\/11\/25\/sarah-fuller-vanderbilt-kicker-reflects-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> noted weakly when it tried to put lipstick on Fuller\u2019s time with the squad, the soccer \u201cgoalkeeper-turned-placekicker didn\u2019t turn around the winless Vanderbilt football team. But she did have a great effect on those tuning in to watch history be made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key word in that puffery is \u201cwinless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watching history be made might be OK at Vanderbilt, a prestigious school where students are reported to enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsjournalists.com\/forum\/threads\/best-sports-chants.67294\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chanting<\/a> \u201cThat\u2019s all right \/ That\u2019s OK \/ You\u2019ll all work for us someday!\u201d to opposing teams\u2019 fans as the Commodores drop another one to a school with a serious football program.<\/p>\n<p>NFL fans tune in to watch winning teams. The Chiefs are an elite professional squad that has won three and appeared in four of the last five Super Bowls. Butker kicked for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-ap-source-temple-coach-collins-meets-with-gtech-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Tech<\/a>, a school of somewhat better gridiron provenance.<\/p>\n<p>You do the math. (Or maybe get a Vanderbilt student to do it for you. I hear they\u2019re awfully good at it, lousy though their football team may be.)<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more, not really! Quoth Hamm: \u201cThere are more than 300 players on the 14 teams in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League. That\u2019s more than 300 women who are professional ball kickers and don\u2019t currently choose to be stay-at-home housewives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, because kicking a ball in different sports is <em>totally interchangeable.<\/em> They don\u2019t even have to be the same shape, so sayeth Mr. Hamm! Come the heck on:<\/p>\n<p>This is space year 2024, exactly 60 years after Pete Gogolak became the first professional soccer-style kicker in the pros for the Buffalo Bills. Today, <em>all<\/em> NFL kickers are soccer-style, and so are almost all at the top level of NCAA football. Almost none are women. Thanks for the attempt, though.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not that women can actually do the job that Butker does, which Hamm acknowledges: \u201d The Chiefs need to make a strategic call about Butker\u2019s future with the team. If he could agree to shut his mouth, the current story might fade,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, after all, plenty of athletes with backward cultural views, but they\u2019re tolerated if they can mostly stick to sports cliches in interviews. If they\u2019re superstars, they sometimes can keep yapping and get away with it. Harrison Butker is not Patrick Mahomes. He\u2019s a special teams player. That gives him less leverage with the team. They could trade him for a solid kicker, or <strong>they could make a statement by signing a woman to kick<\/strong>.\u201d [Emphasis ours.]\n<p>And there you have it: It has nothing to do with whether or not a kicker is good. And make no mistake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/daughter-chiefs-owner-throws-support-behind-conservative-kicker-live-fox-news-praises-christian-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butker<\/a> is good.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/ButkHa00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Football Reference<\/a>, he hit on over 94 percent of his field goals last season, including being 12-for-12 of kicks of over 40 yards and 5-for-5 on those over 50 yards. No, it\u2019s that Mr. Hamm wants to see Butker punished because he said <a href=\"https:\/\/mcquad.org\/2019\/08\/30\/nineteen-eighty-four-a-look-into-a-doubleplusungood-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doubleplus-ungood<\/a> things about faith and family, including the idea that a woman\u2019s role <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/whoopi-goldberg-launches-surprise-defense-conservative-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as a mother and wife<\/a> is irreplaceable by a career alone.<\/p>\n<p>As for the inferior hypothetical female kickers that would replace Butker in Kansas City\u2019s lineup, Hamm says this: \u201cIt would be delightful if one of them cost the Kansas City Chiefs kicker his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For once, we\u2019re in agreement. Then again, I\u2019ve rooted against the Chiefs in every one of those four Super Bowls they\u2019ve appeared in, so our biases on this matter differ.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also think it would be delightful if my hometown New York Giants were to pick Butker up and the Chiefs were stuck with some random woman from the University of Manitoba struggling to kick from outside of 45 yards, all because Mr. Hamm and his dim mob of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-ex-chiefs-cheerleader-loses-mind-harrison-butkers-speech-grounds-termination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural ambulance chasers<\/a> got themselves in a lather about someone expressing mainstream Christian beliefs in public.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. 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Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article by C. 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