It's part of his initiative to support fellow Kansas City sports teams.Ī Texas native, Patrick Mahomes has expressed his love for the "Whataburger" fast food franchise. Mahomes can often be seen at games for those franchises supporting the teams. Buying into the Royals was not the only Kansas City sports franchise that Mahomes bought into.Įarlier in 2021, Patrick Mahomes also joined the Sporting Kansas City Major League Soccer ownership group. Shortly after, Mahomes was announced as the newest member of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals ownership group as a minority stakeholder. Mahomes said at the time that he planned on using the money he earned to invest for his and his family's future. The contract, that could surpass $500 million, is one for the record books. In the summer of 2020, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes signed a ten-year extension. Patrick Mahomes investment technique is one other athletes could learn from
Since signing his ten year extension last summer (that with bonuses could exceed $500 million), Patrick Mahomes has made some significant investments as an entrepreneur. Mahomes has racked up numerous accolades and other honors for all that he has already accomplished with the Kansas City Chiefs at just 26 years old.īut football isn't the only passion that Mahomes puts a lot of work into. Mahomes picked a different starting spot than usual, and the stomping of feet to chase him could be heard underneath the screams of Mahomes’ name.Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' performance and success on the field is well documented. Parents lifted their kids onto shoulders, and adults waved cereal boxes and mini-helmets and large framed pictures. Small boys and girls took parental encouragement and nudged as close as possible. Grown men boxed out with footballs still secured in cardboard, which must make for nice resale items. One random guy wore a Rams hat, but he’s outnumbered by people in Mahomes’ Texas Tech jersey (three) and those in both a Mahomes Chiefs jersey and a wig (two).Īs Mahomes approached, a couple kids squealed and the crowd tightened into place. I’m the only person on the hill in a blue shirt. There is still some of that - here’s to you, Guy In Peyton Hillis Jersey - but at least half of the jerseys in view have Mahomes’ name on the back. That’s not unusual, but for years the jerseys you spotted in crowds of Chiefs fans have been something like a list of stars who wasted their primes on losing teams (Jamaal Charles) or reminders of bad ideas (Matt Cassel). More than half the people in view, it seems, are in jerseys. Depending on how you counted it, we stood 10 rows deep in a jam-packed mass of humanity. The question hung in the air a few seconds while they inventoried the crowd. I asked the parents how they think this will go. The older one will be a sophomore and plays quarterback for his high school. I asked how the crowd that day compares to today. They came up two years ago - Mahomes’ rookie camp - and scored Mahomes’ and Alex Smith’s signatures on the same ball. The Gravely boys already have Mahomes’ autograph, actually. Eight of the 13 people I asked said the same thing. Keith and Chanel Gravely brought their kids up from Shawnee, the date chosen specifically because Mahomes would be signing. On normal days, that should take five minutes. I told that story to Karen Cosgrove, who drove up from Lee’s Summit, and she one-upped me - it took her 45 minutes to get from the exit off Highway 36 to park. Wednesday was at least the fifth (out of 10) to surpass that.īy 8:30, police were directing traffic to a parking lot rarely if ever used because everything else was stuffed already. Before this year, the largest estimated crowd for a non-stadium practice was 6,100. Mahomes has changed everything except the humidity in Kansas City, and now he’s doing it in St. The previous practice, maybe 3,000 or so fans showed up. Most years, this would be a crowd of a thousand at the most. Midweek, and practice was delayed by a borderline biblical rain. Which position groups will sign on which days is posted somewhat subtly on the Chiefs’ website, and that’s the only reason anyone around here can see for this type of crowd. “You’re stepping into a danger zone now! They’re gonna step all over your little tail!” “Hey!” a fan named Mark Morgan yells to his two younger sons. This part of the crowd is a mix of wide-eyed kids, others coached up by their dads (“Get low - go under arms,” the one in front of me told his young boys), middle-aged men with the familiar tells of dealers, and some of us just here for the scene.
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