Jason Kelce shares reaction if his daughters were told to be homemakers following Harrison Butker speech

The father of three girls feels he would have “failed as a dad” if his daughters listened to “somebody up on a stage” tell them what to do with their lives.

Retired Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce, who is the father of three young girls, shared his reaction to the controversial commencement speech by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, in which he encouraged the women in the audience to be homemakers over having careers.

Jason Kelce and his brother, Chiefs All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce, each gave their thoughts on Butker’s speech on the May 24 episode of their “New Heights” podcast.

“I’ve had so many people ask me, ‘What would you do if your daughters had to sit there and listen to somebody tell them after they just earned a degree that they should just go to align to be homemakers?'” Jason Kelce said. “And I would say if my daughters listen to anybody tell them what to do — that they should be homemakers — then I failed as a dad.”

In his speech to the graduating class of Benedictine College in Kansas on May 11, Butker called being a homemaker one of the “most important” roles for a woman and said his own wife’s life “really started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”

“Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you ask her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say no,” Butker said about his wife in his speech.

Jason Kelce is the father of daughters Wyatt, 4, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 1, with wife Kylie Kelce. He hopes to imprint on them that they should be free thinkers.