It was nearly six years ago, before the three Lombardi Trophies, before the first MVP trophy, and Patrick Mahomes remembers it like it was yesterday.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ star quarterback was devastated after losing in overtime of a true quarterbacking-prize fight. Tom Brady had led the New England Patriots back from the dead—after an offsides penalty wiped out a game-ending interception in regulation—to a 37–31 win that put the greatest ever in position to win his sixth Super Bowl. The legend then went to the 23-year-old prodigy after the epic finish and delivered wise words in a back area of the stadium.
