PublishedMay 17, 2024 6:27 pmEDT|UpdatedMay 17, 2024 7:17 pmEDT
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The Kansas City Star remains one of the most influential newspapers in the Kansas City area. But like so many respected old newspapers, the Star continues to make fun of its name.
On Friday, a guy named Peter Hamm called on the Chiefs to “fire” kicker Harrison Butker after his faith-based commencement speech at Benedictine College last Saturday.
Hamm urged the Chiefs to replace Butker with a kicker.
“For poetic justice after Harrison Butker’s Neanderthal outburst, and because the talent pool is real, the Kansas City Chiefs‘ next kicker should be a woman,” the article begins.
As OutKick writer David Hookstead commented on the article via X: “This is so far from reality that I almost have to wonder if this is performance art.”
Either that, or the article is pandering.
Giving up Butker for a female kicker would require the Chiefs to say goodbye to their ambitious three-peat pursuit. (No team has won three consecutive Super Bowls. The Chiefs are betting favorites to do so this season.)
Kansas City won its final three playoff games last season by one possession. Butker was a perfect 11-for-11 in the playoffs.
The Chiefs don’t win the last two Super Bowls without Butker’s ace stepping in at the decisive moment, whether it’s his 45-yard score that sent the Chiefs to the Super Bowl two seasons ago; his record-breaking 57-yard field goal to keep the Chiefs in the Super Bowl last February; or his kick to send the Super Bowl into overtime, where the Chiefs finally beat the 49ers.
Butker is universally recognized as one of the two best kickers in the NFL, along with Justin Tucker of the Ravens. However, the Kansas City Star wants him unemployed for sharing the criminal thought of how his wife staying home has improved his life.
Here’s a live shot of Peter Hamm driving to the Star office:
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Butker did not threaten anyone’s safety by speeding at 119 mph. That was his teammate Rashee Rice, whom the Star made No Call on the Chiefs to “shoot.” Only butcher.
“Firing” Butker would be cowardly and foolish. Especially, firing him in favor of a kicker.
There are currently no kickers/players in the NFL. There has never been a female kicker/player in the NFL.
We could repeat the boring Men are biologically bigger, faster and stronger than women. a statement we have to keep quoting because idiots like Hamm advocate for men and women to compete in athletic competitions.
Or we could simply recognize that the odds of a woman kicking the ball better than the 32 best kickers in the NFL are unspeakably low.
The Star mentions a few women who play kickers in college football, namely Maya Turner of Wayzata, Minnesota. Turner will be a sophomore this fall at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
Maybe Turner has the leg of a goddess and is good enough to kick a field goal in the NFL, although we’d confidently take the under. However, he’s not even eligible for the NFL this season, even though Hamm asked for Butker’s job before the season.
Not that NFL kickers are known for their tackles, but a female kicker would have to tackle a returner several times a season. Here is a video of several NFL kickers getting crushed by superior athletes on the football field.
KC Star would like to see a woman added to that montage.
All that being said, most of us are against the Chiefs. They have earned too much. They are the New World Order of the NFL.
So if the woke mob is about to force any NFL team into submission by dropping their starting kicker for a female kicker, we hope it’s the Chiefs.
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