Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has declared his total indifference to any outrage regarding Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker’s involvement with a new PAC. UPRIGHT PAC’s goals are both fundraising for candidates aligned with its conservative faith-based values and mobilizing Christians to vote.

“One of the things I talk to the players every year about at training camp is using their platform to make a difference," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said. "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.”

The PAC’s website, featuring a photo of Butker, states its mission as follows:

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.

That's why UPRIGHT PAC was founded.

We are working to mobilize Christians across this country to make sure we protect these values at the ballot box.

If we don’t stand up now, who will?

The PAC, and Hunt’s deliberate lack of concern regarding same as long as it doesn’t interfere with Butker’s weekend job of kicking the football straight, have raised the usual hackles among the hard left-leaning sports journalism world. The Nation’s Dave Zirin has concocted this brew of hysterical hysteria:

Chiefs Placekicker Harrison Butker Goes Wide Right and Finds Political Power

The Kansas City Chiefs kicker has started a far-right super PAC to encourage conservatives to vote for “traditional Christian values.” He is part of a terrifying political trend.

The terrifying part doubtless comes from progressives fearing a trip to the ER for surgical removal of their fingers from their ears after shoving them in too tight in order to avoid any possibility of hearing so little as a whiff of thought daring to contradict their clenched little world views.

Butker is no stranger to standing up for his beliefs and showing out while his opponents sputter out. After first coming to national prominence with his May 2024 commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas, during which he lambasted cafeteria Catholics in politics for their pro-abortion stance plus praised the traditional role of wife and mother for women as being a noble career, Butker has sailed high and handsome throughout all handwringing sessions. His teammates, and now his employer, have the right idea. The Chiefs’ next game on October 20, 2024, is a doozy: a Super Bowl rematch against the San Francisco 49ers who, although not at full strength with stud running back Christian McCaffrey not yet having suited up for action this year due to injury, are still loaded with playmakers on both sides of the ball. Incomprehensible though it may be for the sports media world, Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, and the rest of the Chiefs players and staff are substantially more preoccupied with game plans than playing politically correct games. And frankly, whether individuals with the organization love, loathe, or are utterly indifferent to Butker’s views is no one’s business. Intelligent workplaces welcome multiple viewpoints. Besides, when your star tight end is dating Taylor Swift, do you think anyone is going to view a player’s political and religious beliefs as a greater distraction?