The NFL responded to the controversy surrounding Harrison Butker's graduation speech this past Saturday.

Kansas City Chiefs kicker went viral this week with his graduation speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas. Social media commentators widely condemned Batker's words as "misogynistic," "homophobic," and "transphobic.""

"Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity," Jonathan Bean, nfl Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, told people in a statement Wednesday. "His view is not that of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in its commitment to inclusion that only makes our league stronger.

Butker made a series of comments in his speech that angered a swath of people online.

"Congratulations to the women in attendance today for their amazing achievements," he said in part of his story.

"You should be proud of everything you have achieved up to this point in your young life. I would like to speak directly to you briefly, because I think it is you, a woman who has the most demonic lies told to you.

"How many of you are sitting here right now and trying to cross this stage and think about all the promotions and titles you are trying to get in your career" Some of you may end up leading a successful career in the world, but I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I dare to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you bring into this world.

He continued, "My beautiful wife Isabel would have said at first that her life really started when she started living her profession as a wife and as a mother," he said.

(Butker and his wife married in 2018 and share a young son and daughter.

Not only did people blast Kicker's speech online, but they quickly learned that his mother, Elizabeth Butker, was a physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine, despite her son's views on women in the workplace.

Another irony of Butker's speech is that at one point, he quotes Taylor Swift (probably 1 of the most career-driven women ever) and calls her his "teammate's" (the teammate in question is of course Travis Kelce).

Of course, this is the Internet, people also brought jokes, one person tweeted "as a woman, Do you count as being in the kitchen watching Harrison Batker cook online?

Booker was also accused of apparently referring to Pride Month as "the kind of fatal sin of pride having a month dedicated to it" and denouncing what he called "dangerous gender ideology."

After his speech, a petition was born to dismiss Butker from the chief, with more than 85,000 signatures counted at the time of writing.

Celebrities also responded to Batker's comments, and outspoken country star Maren Morris reposted a clip from his speech to her Twitter story with the caption, "I choose a bear.Instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrams.""This is a reference to a viral question that women are asked online — they prefer to encounter strange guys or bears if they were alone in the woods,"

rapper Flavor Flav tweeted, "and a start speech that sounds like some players "need to stay in their lanes." You should not do this."

Elsewhere, One fan dug up an earlier interview with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and said, "I don't talk to Harrison all year, man, I let him do his thing. We are sitting right next to each other in a team meeting and I will not say a word to him."Yikesssss.