The Chiefs’ Harrison Butker Just Handed Young & Restless Years of ‘Ally’ Storyline On a Silver Platter

Our jaws were still on the floor over the incredibly small-minded, misogynistic, homophobic commencement speech that Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker recently gave at Benedictine College when it occurred to us: The troglodyte just gave The Young and the Restless what could be its first timely storyline in eons.

With ease, the soap could have sweethearts Adam and Sally discuss Butker’s outdated belief that a woman’s foremost “vocation” is to be a homemaker. They agree that he must have been kicked in the head more often than he’s kicked a football. But beyond that, Butker gets Adam thinking: “I’m already rich — thanks, Dad. Why am I working so hard to be some kind of big-business bigwig? That has literally never worked out for me.

“Why am I not instead doing what my mom did for me — making sure that my own kid grows up in a happy home? Gender roles of the 1950s be damned, who’s to say that that isn’t my true calling?”

When Adam floats the idea to Sally, she is at first floored. “I thought you wanted to rule the world,” she says.

“Maybe I don’t need the world after all,” he reckons. “Maybe all I need is you… and our family.”

A wedding and a very busy honeymoon later, Adam is delightedly playing Mr. Mom. He still does some consulting work on the side, lest his brain become irretrievably trapped in a loop of “Baby Shark” and Peppa Pig. But he’s free of the corporate grind, of the never-ending struggle to one-up the competition and jockey for position in a job that isn’t all that rewarding in the first place.

“I must say, my boy,” Victor tells him, “I’m disappointed.”

“I must say,” Adam replies, “I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Why would that disappoint you?”

“Because I expect more of you,” Victor barks. “Because I want more for you.”

“Maybe,” Adam says, more comfortable than he’s ever been in his own skin, “you want more for me… for you. For the first time in my life, I’m content. I’m at peace. I’m not fighting… with anybody.

“And Sally, she’s happy, too,” he adds. “She has that fire in her, that drive to compete. I love that about her. She loves that I love that about her. And we both love that we have come to a place where we can do what makes us want to leap out of bed in the morning.

“Well, in my case, the baby kinda tells me when to get up,” he goes on. “But you know what I mean.”

Over time, Victor would be forced to reevaluate his stance. Despite his displeasure with Adam, he’d notice that by and large they no longer butt heads. Adam doesn’t seek his approval anymore; he doesn’t want or need it. He has finally become not his father’s son but something much more important: his own man. In doing so, he has demonstrated enviable strength and clear-headedness.

By the time Adam is asked to give the commencement speech at Walnut Grove Academy, Victor is able to not only enthusiastically attend but applaud what his son has to say. “There is no one way to live, no one way to be happy,” Adam tells the graduating class of 2027. “If anyone — any person or organization or religion — tries to tell you that there is, question it. Question it hard. Ask yourself if they know you, know your heart and mind, or if they are just trying to fit you into a blueprint for a life that might be swell for some people… but not you.

“There’s a corny saying that I hate,” Adam goes on. “‘Follow your bliss.’ Cheesy, right? But at the same time, it’s not bad advice. I mean, what could be more obvious? The path that makes you happy, the path that makes you you, is the one that you should follow. If you want to conquer the corporate world, dive in headfirst and make it shake. If you’re creative, let it out — ’cause even if you don’t, it’s gonna find a way to come out. Don’t let yourself or your future be defined or dictated by anyone or their ideas of ‘the way it should be.’

“Me, I change 50 diapers a day,” he concludes. “And lemme tell ya, it’s bad. Like, really bad. I don’t know what we’re feeding that kid, but when it makes its return trip… Jesus.” He crowd laughs. “I’ll tell ya something else, though. That stench, to me, is the smell of success — and success has never smelled sweeter. Find yours.”

Review the below photo gallery to check out Adam’s life and loves.