Patrick Mahomes’ legend is not just in Whitehouse, Lubbock or Texas. It’s worldwide
Patrick Mahomes, it seems, has been preparing for this moment for all of his 24 years.
The newly-crowned Super Bowl MVP led the Kansas City Chiefs to a title in just his third season in the league.
The quarterback has still only played in 31 regular-season NFL games, one fewer than his 32-game career at Texas Tech from 2014-16.
He led the Chiefs to three comeback wins in the playoffs, all double-digit deficits, including a 24-0 hole in the divisional round and a 10-point hole in the fourth quarter in the Super Bowl.
The Tyler-born and Whitehouse High School hero is already a Texas gridiron legend and his career has just begun. He was only a three-star prospect out of high school. NFL draft “experts” had major questions about his ability to win at the highest level.
“Too eager to go big game hunting,” it reads on his NFL.com draft analysis. “Ravenous appetite for the explosive play can also bring unwanted trouble. Willingness to default to playground style appears to limit his ability to get into a consistent rhythm.”
Wrong.
After the Super Bowl in 2013, when Mahomes was still a year from starting as a true freshman at Texas Tech, he posted a prescient message on Twitter in which he fantasized about how cool it must be to utter the “I’m going to Disneyland” declaration after winning the Super Bowl.
In fact, there he was, with girlfriend Brittany Matthews, touring Disney World hours after that wish came true.
Mahomes has done things no one has ever done, including 5,000-yard seasons in both college and the NFL.
He’s becoming ubiquitous in television commercials, including as the face of Adidas.
He was a legend in East Texas and then West Texas. His legend in Kansas City began to build a year ago. And now, he’s just a legend. And he can’t yet rent a car.
