Harrison Butker: I’d Rather Retire from the NFL than Be Forced to Take the Covid Vaccine

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BUTKER: “I think only tough thing was for a lot of players. They felt like they didn’t have. A choice was almost like. You have to do these things. You gotta, follow these protocols or else you’re, not gonna, have a job and you’re going to get cod, but for me.
I just it in my situation, I talked to my wife, and I was I was fully. Okay was stepping away from football, was like I’m gonna, stick to my principles, while I’m not going to compromise, and if this is my last season than then so be it, and I think I think in some ways I was an example for a lot of the guys like wow, you know. Maybe I should have stood up a little bit more, maybe in the future, when there’s something that’s gonna come down where I feel like my freedom skin taken away, I feel like I don’t have a voice. Well, I can stick up in and stand up for what I believe in cause at the end of the Dave football. Is it my life? It’s my job that I love it. I love kicking. I love the chief, I love playing, but you know I’m a child of god and I’m a husband father in that comes before playing football. So if I’m ever doing something that, I think goes against those first, two things as being a child of god has been a husband and father. Then I’m prepared to step away and and look fur fur another mean instead to provide for the family, so I think a lot of the younger guys, especially who may be identified as football as my life, that is, who I am, they were the one said, maybe had to compromise on their beliefs just so they continue doing what they’re love and it’s a tough thing. I don’t know what I would have done if I was in their position as a as a young, ricky but being more established, and then a I thought I was comment seen with NFL was about I’ve been blessed to play five seasons, and I know that I’m more than just football player and that really helped me cut to stay strong during this whole thing.”

UNKNOWN: “So you were ready to leave football if it. If it came down to a you said, this is basic. The hill that that I’m going to die on was at something you express to higher ups ads in the Kansas city chiefs, something you talked about. Your team answers at something you kind of just kept in with your family like if it gets to this point. This is this is what I’m gonna stay strong on. This is where I’m gonna hold the line”

BUTKER: “For the most part I kept to with my family, but I think everyone kind of understood that, because you know there are a lotta things that I had to do.”