The politics of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker are well known. The vet infamously delivered a speech at Benedictine College in 2024 that was filled with bigotry and misogyny, with the NFL distancing itself from the comments.

So on Friday night, as he missed an extra point that would have tied the eventual loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, Rich Eisen made this call on YouTube: "Harrison Butker, interestingly enough, is wide right!"

Now... is that a little wink toward Butker's right-leaning political views? Sure seems like that could be the case.

No word from Eisen himself, but plenty of fans picked up on that statement:

NFL fans thought Rich Eisen was making a joke about Harrison Butker

Hmm.

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Reporting by Charles Curtis, For The Win / For The Win

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