Every year, the Super Bowl It is the sporting event par excellence that paralyzes the entire world and this 2023 will once again have a special touch with Patrick Mahomes being one of the protagonists Kansas City Chiefs.
Although it is true that the quarterback 27-year-old has become an icon of the National Football League (NFL), his roots also bring him closely to another of the most popular sports in the United States: baseball.
Mahomes was born in Tyler, Texas on September 17, 1995, to parents Randi Martin y Pat Mahomesthe star of Big leagues who wore the jerseys of Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs y Pittsburgh Pirates.
Thanks to your father Mahones He was always linked to sport, being his stage in the Whitehouse High School of Texas which, without knowing it, would decide his future, because that was where he stood out in football, baseball y basketball.
while in football, Mahomes he was throwing for 4,619 yards, 50 passing touchdowns, 948 rushing yards, and 15 scores; in baseball he was recording a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts during his senior year of high school.
It would be later when Mahomes would arrive at the Texas Tech Universitybeing listed as one of the best prospects for the draft of the Major League Baseball (MLB), even being selected by Detroit Tigers in round 37 of 2014.
Congratulations to #Tigers 2014 37th-round pick Patrick Mahomes on winning MVP of his football game.
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) February 3, 2020
After rejecting the offer of the Tigers, Mahomes continued on his way football and three years later he was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft for the Chiefswho signed it on July 20… The rest is history.
Finally, already being a star of the NFL, Mahomes joined the group of owners of Kansas City Royalsmaking a million-dollar investment.
