Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes legacy in the KC community goes far beyond the Kansas City Chiefs.
As co-founders of the Kansas City Current pro soccer team, the Mahomeses have helped plan and finance the world’s first stadium built for a women’s sports team. Along with it comes a new state-of-the-art locker room, revealed to the Current players for the first time in a video shared by Patrick Mahomes on social media.
Forward Michelle Cooper was the first one in, and could not contain her excitement. The players celebrated having a comfortable space to call their own, in a sport of women’s soccer often made to share men’s facilities or occupy those meant for non-professional teams. Some screamed, some danced, and others like 2023 NWSL Best XI honoree Debinha took out their phones to record the historic moment
The Chiefs quarterback shared the video with his 6.8 million Instagram followers, building hype for the Current’s home opener at its brand new CPKC Stadium against 2022 NWSL Champions Portland Thorns. The groundbreaking $117 million stadium opens for its first game this Saturday, March 16.
Patrick Mahomes’ gesture of playing through pain is a good test for Travis Kelce and his teammates
The Chiefs defeated the Texans with an outstanding performance by Mahomes, who played with a minor injury
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes shone in the Kansas City Chiefs’ 27-19 victory over the Houston Texans, in an example he hopes will serve as motivation for his teammates, led by his friend Travis Kelce, after being in doubt with an ankle sprain in last week’s win over the Cleveland Browns.
From the Chiefs’ first possession, Mahomes’ message was clear as he proved to be unstoppable and ran for a 15-yard touchdown, and closed the game with 28 completions for 260 yards and another score.
“I ask a lot of the guys around me; I feel like if I’m going to ask them to play through pain, if I’m going to ask them to play through little cuts and bruises and stuff like that, I have to do it too. That’s something I pride myself on, being there with my guys and playing football,” Mahomes said in the postgame press conference.
Mahomes’ party won’t continue until Christmas Day game
The Kansas City Chiefs are close to securing the top spot as the number one seed in the AFC, they will do so with an eventual and almost unlikely defeat of the Buffalo Bills on Sunday against the New England Patriots, so they will have to wait until next Wednesday’s Christmas game, when they visit the Pittsburgh Steelers, in their third game in a span of 11 days, where Mahomes hopes to be ready.
“I would say in that game it hurt me a little bit the way I walked in general, whereas now I can move, walk and things like that, and now I’m just trying to get even better for this next game. I mean, we’re playing against a good football team and a great defense,” Mahomes said of the visit to the Steelers.
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For his part, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid acknowledged that Mahomes spoils them by being so tough and it is a message of confidence for the locker room, because most players do not recover as his quarterback did.
“I didn’t think he could go out and run like that. He did a great job with the whole mentality from the beginning that he was going to go out and play. He didn’t miss a rep,” Andy Reid told reporters.
