Harrison Butker Didn’t Get Invited to the Kelce–Swift Wedding, and a Chiefs Player Says the Group Chat Has Been ‘Messy’ Ever Since
Harrison Butker used his 2024 Benedictine College commencement speech to tell women their highest calling was homemaking, and quoted a Taylor Swift lyric while calling her “my teammate’s girlfriend.” Two years later, he’s the Chiefs player who didn’t get a wedding invite, and an anonymous teammate says the group chat has gotten “messy,” with guys texting Butker to see how he feels.
The general idea was a blanket invite for the team, an anonymous Chiefs player told the Daily Mail this week, but every other player got something individual. Butker didn’t.
“Lots of texts are going around the team and some people who are close to Harrison feel like he was snubbed,” the source said. “A lot of guys want it to be drama. They just like that s**t… we’re like a high school team sometimes.”
One player who’s on a group chat with Butker told the outlet the thread reacted “WTF?” when the non-invite news went around. Butker didn’t reply.
In the May 2024 speech at Benedictine College, Butker told the women in the audience they’d been fed “diabolical lies” about career ambition and that most of them should be “most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.” He praised his own wife Isabelle for embracing “one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.”
The Swift reference came in a separate section criticizing Catholic priests for getting too familiar with their parishioners. Butker lifted the line “familiarity breeds contempt” from her 2022 song “Bejeweled” and attributed it only to “my teammate’s girlfriend.” The NFL publicly distanced itself from the speech. Travis Kelce said at the time he couldn’t “say I agree with the majority of it or just about any of it,” while adding he wouldn’t judge Butker on his religious views.
A second anonymous Chiefs player told the Daily Mail that “maybe half the team went, probably less,” and that most of the no-RSVPs were scheduling conflicts rather than anything personal. Training camp starts in three weeks.
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