Super Bowl Champ To College Grads: ‘Get Married and Start a Family’

Kansas City Chiefs kicker and two-time Super Bowl champ Harrison Butker delivered an inspiring commencement speech at his alma mater over the weekend and offered graduates one piece of crucial advice: get married and start a family.

Butker, who is Catholic, reportedly spent a week at a monastery in Los Angeles after his Super Bowl win last February, where he immersed himself in prayer and reflection. On Saturday, he shared some life lessons he had picked up and told Georgia Tech’s class of 2023 that despite his accomplishments on the football field, his greatest purpose in life was being a husband and father.

“As someone who is not paid to speak for a living, I’m about to pop off some hard truths,” Butker said. “I don’t care if you have a successful career. I don’t care if you have a big bank account or you fly private… in the end, no matter how much money you attain, none of it will matter if you are alone and devoid of purpose.”

Butker described himself as coming from a family of overachievers, telling his audience that “success was expected” in his household growing up. “As a young man, I found happiness in being celebrated for my worldly achievements,” he said.

“All of you are here today because you are smart, capable and hardworking people. But if we’re being honest, the world is filled with miserable, smart, capable and hardworking people… I want you to be successful. But this isn’t so much about your career as it is using your talents, being your best, fulfilling the potential you were created for.”

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“It is important to use today as an opportunity to take stock of your mission,” Butker told the graduates. “Our culture is suffering. We all see it.” The NFL kicker warned that despite new technologies connecting us “more than ever before,” it is quickly becoming apparent how many young adults feel lonely and depressed.

“It doesn’t matter which political persuasion you sit on or whether you are a person of deep faith or not. Anyone with eyes can see that something is off. Studies have shown one of the many negative effects of the pandemic is that a lot of young adults feel a sense of loneliness, anxiety and depression, despite technology that has connected us more than ever before. It would seem the more connected people are to one another, the more they feel alone.”

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The solution, Butker says, is to “get married and start a family.”

“None of [my] accomplishments mean anything compared to the happiness I have found in my marriage and in starting a family.”

“As we leave our mark on future generations by the children we bring into the world, how much greater of a legacy can anyone leave than that? Sadly, we are encouraged to live our lives for ourselves, to move from one thing to another with no long term commitment, to have loyalty for nothing but ourselves and sacrifice only when it suits our own interests. This loneliness is rooted in the lies being sold about self-dependence and prioritizing our career over important relationships.”


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