Breaking News:Chargers troll Chiefs’ Harrison Butker. He made this mess, and now he’s sitting in it :

On a day the NFL publicized where each of its 32 teams will be playing football games from September into January, the Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker is still the butt of the joke. With the credits rolling in their schedule-release video, the L.A. Chargers trolled Harrison Butker in a Sims-themed clip that placed him working in the kitchen — you know, the work he implied women should prioritize after they spent four years to secure a college degree

Hours later, a social media account belonging to the city of Kansas City piled on, reminding in a since-deleted tweet that Butker lives in the suburbs, not KC. This is Butker’s new norm.

The reaction over the past few days to Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas — and there has been plenty of it — provides a clear indication that this story isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But it should provide Butker something else: an education, even as I’d imagine that’s being too idealistic. You know the backdrop for this: In his 20-minute speech at Benedictine, Butker ditched his Chiefs uniform in favor of a graduation gown. He matched the hundreds of students staring back at him, donning the wardrobe representing a time of endless possibility.

A mere disguise for what followed. Butker delivered a message not of possibility, but rather one of conformity. He did not so much uplift those who share his beliefs as disparage those who do not.

That should prompt his education. Butker has the platform — and also certainly the right — to promote his religion and his own beliefs within that religion, same as the rest of us are free to draw our own conclusions. But why must that include belittling the human value of others? A few minutes into his diatribe at Benedictine, Butker lamented those with Catholic faith who have been silenced. Yet a couple of minutes later, seemingly oblivious to the contrast of his previous thought, he attempted to lessen the worth of those unlike him. To quiet them, you could say.

He could not have been any clearer about his view on women’s roles or the LGBTQ community. And, to be quite frank, it wasn’t as though we needed him to explain. He’s made these sorts of comments as central to his offseasons as minicamp. This wasn’t a case of foot-in-mouth. It was a well-prepared speech. And I’d argue the backlash has not prompted him to regret one bit of what he said. Butker referred to LGBTQ pride as a deadly sin. Women listening in the audience, rather than being rewarded with a diploma on graduation day, were made to listen as he promoted the role of homemaker — not as an acceptable choice, but as their duty as a husband’s servant