Patrick Mahomes' mother endorses Donald Trump during 'Monday Night Football' on eve of election



Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes has yet another family member publicly supporting Donald Trump as his mother made a clear endorsement for the former president during "Monday Night Football."

The Kansas City Chiefs stayed undefeated at 8-0 with a 30-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night, but it was Mahomes' mother, Randi, who was making headlines before the game even started.

In a video that made its rounds on social media, the Mahomes matriarch is seen wearing pro-Trump attire inside the stadium.

"Make America Great Again! Let's do it," she said, as the stands in Arrowhead Stadium slowly filled in the background.

The short video is part of a puzzle football fans have had to piece together regarding whether or not the Chiefs quarterback is a Trump supporter himself.

In September, Mahomes' wife, Brittany, faced backlash on social media for "liking" messages of support for the former president.

Mrs. Mahomes responded to detractors on her Instagram page, saying that in order to be a "hater" as an adult, one must have "have some deep rooted issues."

"There's no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well," she added.

Trump responded by saying, "I want to thank beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me."

"What a great couple," Trump added.

'I don't want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate.'

Mahomes was asked by reporters days later about his wife's support for Trump, but the athlete expertly pivoted and said he didn't want his position to be used for politics.

"I think I've always said I don't want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate or do whatever either way," Mahomes said. "I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote, is to inform people to do their own research and then make their best decision for them and their family. And so, I think every time I'm on this stage and I get asked these questions, I'm going to refer back to that because I think that's what makes America so great."

(L to R) Taylor Swift, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, and Brittany Mahomes attend the 2024 U.S. OpenPhoto by Jamie Squire/Getty Images

Mahomes also faced questions about his teammate Travis Kelce, whose business choices and relationships seem skewed in the other direction politically.

Kelce has not only signed endorsement deals with Bud Light and Pfizer, but his girlfriend Taylor Swift has fully endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris along with other Democrats in the past.

Mahomes was asked about being seen in high-profile events with Kelce and Swift:

"Is that an important image to show? People who may have different philosophies?" a journalist asked at the time.

Mahomes responded by saying he has "grown up with people from every aspect of life and every background" and always hoped people can come together with different beliefs to achieve a common goal.

"I think if we can do that as a nation, I think we can get the best out of each other," Mahomes went on. "I think that's something that I do every single day, and whenever I'm hanging out with whoever, I'm not thinking about their political views. I'm thinking about the people and how they treat other people."

Mahomes has continuously fought off calls from the media to pick a side and continues to sidestep endorsing any political view. Even after a shooting at last season's Super Bowl parade, Mahomes said he was not willing to call for gun control despite it being a typical trope among celebrities following a highly publicized shooting.

"I continue to educate myself," he simply said.

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Boy ​whose face paint Deadspin called 'racist' to proceed with defamation suit



A 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan vilified as "racist" by the sports website Deadspin will have his day in court, a Delaware judge ruled on Monday.

The controversial blog, once part of the now-defunct Gawker empire, had filed a motion to dismiss the defamation suit against it. The judge quickly denied it, noting that there was sufficient evidence for the suit to proceed.

‘Someone who makes his livelihood through vicious race-baiting.’

As Blaze News reported in November 2023, Deadspin attempted to stoke outrage over the image of Holden Armenta wearing Chiefs face paint while attending a game against the Las Vegas Raiders last November.

Half of Armenta's face was painted black, half was painted red. He was also wearing a native American headdress.

Race-baiting

Using a photo of Armenta in which only the headdress and the black face paint was visible, Deadspin writer Carron Phillips accused the boy of racism.

"It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate black people and the Native Americans at the same time," Phillips wrote.

He went on to accuse the NFL of "participating in prejudice":

While it isn’t the league’s responsibility to stop racism and hate from being taught in the home, they are a league that has relentlessly participated in prejudice. If the NFL had outlawed the chop at Chiefs games and been more aggressive in changing the team’s name, then we wouldn’t be here.

In a since-deleted post on X, Phillips defended his somewhat dubious accusations. “For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco.”

Family faced 'barrage of hate'

Armenta's parents, Raul Armenta Jr. and Shannon Armenta, filed a defamation lawsuit against the website in February 2024. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware, where Deadspin’s parent company G/O Media resides.

One month after the lawsuit was filed, the entire Deadspin staff was abruptly fired after G/O Media sold the website to Lineup Publishing.

The suit described Phillips as “someone who makes his livelihood through vicious race-baiting.”

The Armentas said they have been inundated with "a barrage of hate, including death threats" as a result of the article smearing their son. One person even threatened to kill Holden “with a wood chipper,” according to the lawsuit.

“It intentionally painted a picture of the Armenta Family as anti-black, anti-Native American bigots who proudly engaged in the worst kind of racist conduct motivated by their family’s hatred for black and Native Americans," read the lawsuit.

Last resort

The Armentas claim to have made repeated requests for Deadspin to retract the article and apologize. Instead, Deadspin revised to take the focus away from Armenta while retaining the allegations that the boy was racist.

The headline was changed from "The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in black face, Native headdress" to "The NFL Must Ban Native Headdress And Culturally Insensitive Face Paint in the Stands."

The family noted that Holden's grandfather was on the board of the Chumash Tribe in Santa Ynez, California.

In their bid to have the case thrown out, Deadspin lawyers argued that the claims against Armenta amounted to opinion, which is constitutionally protected speech.

Crossed the line

However, Superior Court Judge Sean Lugg vehemently disagreed

"Deadspin published an image of a child displaying his passionate fandom as a backdrop for its critique of the NFL’s diversity efforts and, in its description of the child, crossed the fine line protecting its speech from defamation claims," Judge Lugg wrote.

"Having reviewed the complaint, the court concludes that Deadspin’s statements accusing [Holden] of wearing black face and Native headdress ‘to hate black people and the Native American at the same time,’ and that he was taught this hatred by his parents, are provable false assertions of fact and are therefore actionable," Lugg noted.

A spokesperson for G/O Media told the Associated Press that the company had no comment regarding the lawsuit.

Watch Sara Gonzales — host of "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered" — skewer the woke media for attacking the 9-year-old Chiefs fan.

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FACT CHECK: No, The NFL Has Not Replaced The National Anthem With ‘The Black National Anthem’

The video shown in the post is not recent and depicts a Chiefs game from the 2023 season.

Donald Trump Singles Out Brittany Mahomes For ‘So Strongly Defending’ Him

‘What a great couple - See you both at the Super Bowl!’ Trump wrote

Brittany Mahomes Has More Courage Than Most Washington Republicans

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'God is not mocked': Harrison Butker cites Bible verse in response to Paris Olympics absurd opening ceremony



NFL kicker Harrison Butker gave a concise response to the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, referring to a Bible passage about mocking God.

The opening ceremony for the 2024 summer games received worldwide backlash for its apparent mockery of Christianity and its plethora of drag queens, transgender people, and activists throughout the presentation. The shocking imagery overshadowed celebrity appearances from the likes of singers Celine Dion and Lady Gaga and appearances by beloved artists like Snoop Dogg, who were meant to bring more viewers to the games.

Instead, viewers got a naked man in blue paint, men with beards dressed as women, and a mockery of Christianity that Butker seemingly took offense to.

"'Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap,'" the Kansas City Chiefs player wrote. "'For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.' Galatians 6:7-8," he concluded.

Besides being one of the most trusted kickers in the NFL, Butker has also made headlines for a May 2024 speech at a Catholic university that promoted traditional values and attacked woke culture.

The kicker became a target for leftist activists who did not support the idea of a nuclear family.

'Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.'

Later that night, Butker was joined by former NFL quarterback Luke McCown, who referred to the opening ceremonies as "filth," adding that he was "disappointed but not surprised."

"But know this.. There was a last supper that led to an empty tomb. A tomb that for three days held the body of the God-man Jesus who just prior to the tomb, indeed had a last supper with his disciples before he willingly climbed on a cross."

McCown went on to teach about the Last Supper and encouraged fans to read more of the Bible.

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Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps later said that it should have been obvious that the opening ceremony wasn't meant to be offensive to Christians or Catholics.

"Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance," she said, per Reuters. "We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offence we are really sorry."

The opening ceremony's director, Thomas Jolly, said the Last Supper was not the inspiration for the presentation:

"You will never find in my work a desire to denigrate anyone or anything," Jolly reportedly said.

According to Fox News, one of the drag queens involved in the opening ceremony acknowledged that the "opening ceremony did ruffle some feathers."

"I LOVE it," the entertainer wrote. "You know why? Because the Olympics are the biggest stage in the world and us queer people have always been the audience of other people’s life and achievement and it is time that we are welcome in the space."

"And remember, to the ones that had their feathers ruffled seeing queerness on their screen: WE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE," he wrote on Instagram.

It has also been reported that another activist was present during the faux-supper presentation, a DJ named Barbara Butch.

Butch is reportedly a well-known gay activist, who actually refers to herself as a "love activist" and promotes diversity and body positivity.

"I'm a love activist, DJ, and producer based in Paris," she said during the Olympics, according to India Today. "My aim is to unite people, gather humans, and share love through music for all of us to dance and make our hearts beat in unison! Music sounds better with all of us!"

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KC Chiefs player goes into cardiac arrest after seizure — and Harrison Butker steps up



When Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson went into cardiac arrest after a seizure during a special teams meeting Thursday, kicker Harrison Butker stepped up.

Rick Burkholder, Chiefs vice president of sports medicine and performance, said Butker left the meeting to alert the team's medical personnel of what was happening to Thompson, ESPN reported, adding that athletic trainers and a team doctor initially treated him until fire department personnel arrived.

'He loves all of us. We’re a family. This is so much deeper than just football. We root for each other — and in a moment like that, you just have to call yourself to action. Harrison did that.'

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Thompson was in cardiac arrest for a minute to a minute and a half, Burkholder said, before he was transported to a local hospital. He said Thompson was sedated Thursday and through the night and was on a ventilator overnight to help with breathing.

Thompson regained consciousness Friday and was removed from the ventilator.

Burkholder in an update said Thompson, 25, was alert, awake, and "coming through quite well [and] headed in the absolute right direction," ESPN added.

"We don't have a diagnosis," Burkholder noted, according to the sports network. "And in medicine, sometimes you don't have that."

The Chiefs held a team meeting before Friday's practice to update players on Thompson's progress, ESPN said, adding that head coach Andy Reid noted that "if it had to happen, no better place than right here where you have the support that knows what to do."

Turns out the team held a meeting just days before Thompson's medical emergency that went over what players and team personnel should do in similar situations, Arrowhead Pride explained.

“The NFL mandates that we do these emergency action plans for every team in the league — home, away, and in the practice facilities,” Burkholder told reporters Friday, the outlet noted. “We are mandated to practice multiple times a year.”

Butker went right to the team's training room to notify trainers Julie Frymyer and David Glover, Arrowhead Pride noted.

“Harrison is that guy,” safety Justin Reid told the outlet. “He loves all of us. We’re a family. This is so much deeper than just football. We root for each other — and in a moment like that, you just have to call yourself to action. Harrison did that.”

Butker, a Catholic, last month came under left-wing fire after giving a graduation speech at Benedictine College, a small Catholic school, during which he dared to say to women, "Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world."

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder in the middle of the band's Las Vegas concert called Butker a "f***ing p***y" over the star kicker's words. A sportswriter said a woman should replace Butker, reporters endlessly quizzed Butker's teammates about him, and on the first day of Pride Month, singer Katy Perry actually posted an edited version of Butker's graduation speech to make it politically correct. But amid all the furor, Butker refused to apologize.

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Harrison Butker cancels cancel culture and refuses to apologize for his pro-Christian speech: 'We should embrace our cross'



Harrison Butker is not apologizing.

The Kansas City Chiefs kicker and three-time Super Bowl champion became the target of controversy this month after delivering a pro-Catholic commencement speech that affirmed traditional values. A petition demanded that Butker be fired, a sports writer said a woman should replace him, and media subjected his teammates to a barrage of questions about his views.

'Being disliked and mischaracterized by some is nothing compared to finding yourself in a lion's den.'

But in the face of cancel culture, Butker refused to back down.

Speaking at the Courage Under Fire gala in Nashville last Friday — an event hosted by Regina Caeli Academy, a Catholic hybrid homeschool organization — Butker told attendees he has zero regrets.

"In my seven years in the NFL, I've become familiar with the positive and negative comments, but the majority of them revolve around my performance on the field. But as to be expected, the more I've talked about what I value most, which is my Catholic faith, the more polarizing I have become," Butker said.

"It's a decision I've consciously made and one I do not regret at all," he revealed.

In his first public remarks since the controversy erupted, Butker explained that he has no regrets because he trusts in the "Lord's providence" and because he is not "trying to please" people — but Jesus Christ.

"Glorifying God and not ourselves should always remain our motivation despite any pushback or even support," Butker said.

Later in the speech, Butker explained that he is "humbled" by all the support he has received. But he immediately turned the attention away from himself.

"If I constantly remind myself of the hardships the saints went through — especially the martyrs and their persecution — it makes it all seem not so bad. For if heaven is our goal, we should embrace our cross, however large or small it may be, and live our life with joy — to be a bold witness for Christ," Butker said.

"In the end, being courageous starts with the small things. Being disliked and mischaracterized by some is nothing compared to finding yourself in a lion's den," he concluded, referring to the biblical figure of Daniel.

Despite the outrage and cancel attempts, Butker's jersey became a best-seller, his teammates defended him, and clergy praised him.

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