The Kansas City Chiefs’ star kicker continues to be quizzed by sections of the US media over comments he made earlier this year during a May commencement speech in which he discussed young women weighing up the value of motherhood versus pursuing a career, and which garnered significant controversy at the time among mainstream media.

Harrison Butker has become of the US’s most famous Catholic sportspersons, with far more on his young shoulders than having to take crucial field goals for his team – with his devout Catholicism partly to blame, so to speak.