Long before Patrick Mahomes was one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, he was a googly-eyed second-stringer watching Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs take on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the 2017 season-opener at Gillette Stadium.
To this very day, he refers to that game as his “welcome to the NFL moment.”
What is a welcome to the NFL moment? Well, it’s that outer-body experience for rookie players when realizing they’re legitimately living a dream on the big stage. For Mahomes, that moment was during the Super Bowl LI banner reveal for the Patriots.