NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who tends to be talkative on the subject of his Christian faith, briefly went silent on Monday night when he was asked, "What do you think about gays?"
Chiefs’ Butker enters his 5th Super Bowl confident in his kicking and his beliefs
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who tends to be talkative on the subject of his Christian faith, briefly went silent on Monday night when he was asked, "What do you think about gays?"
"I understand that this is a great evening and we're here to focus on the game," Butker said while sitting at a lectern during the Super Bowl opening-night media event in the Superdome. "Maybe if I saw him without a camera, we'd have a great conversation."
It has been an eventful year for the 29-year-old Butker, who joined the Chiefs in 2017 and has been part of seven consecutive AFC championship games and five trips to the Super Bowl. He is chasing his third straight ring and fourth overall.
The roller coaster began almost exactly a year ago, when the Chiefs met the 49ers in Las Vegas. One of the most accurate kickers in the NFL kept Kansas City in the Super Bowl with a trio of field goals, including a 57-yarder in the third quarter, before his 29-yarder at the end of regulation forced overtime. Kansas City went on to win, 25-22.