He may be one of the most talked-about quarterbacks in the NFL right now, but to Patrick Mahomes kids, he’s just their dad.
Mahomes, the quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, is the father of two children with his wife, Brittany Matthews: daughter Sterling Skye Mahomes and son Patrick “Bronze” Lavone Mahomes III. In an interview with Football in America in 2022, Mahomes revealed that he wants to “stay out of the way” when it comes to his kids’ possible athletic interests and doesn’t want to push them to play sports like he did.
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“I think that’s the best thing for me,” he said. “I’m going to help teach my son, my daughter, all the fundamentals and whatever they want to learn. But at the same time, I want to stay out of the way and let it be about them.” He continued, “That’s what my dad did growing up, that’s what my parents did. They let it be about me, let me out there and have fun, they didn’t pressure me to do anything. I think that’s why I’m in the position I am today.”
Mahomes also explained at a press conference in 2021 about the lessons he learned about parenthood from his own father, former Major League Baseball player Pat Mahomes. “I got to see him battle and grind to try to get back there,” he said. “You never know if it’s going to be like this for the rest of your career. So I try to win as much as possible now and do whatever I can to win multiple Super Bowls.” He continued, “I’m at the right point in my career where I can use my voice and people can really, really make an impact in this world. This year, with everything that happened, it prompted me to really be bigger, and then be more than I had been before.”
In 2023, a Netflix documentary series Quarterback followed Mahomes among others in an intimate insider look at what it takes to be an all-star athlete. But for Mahomes, he just wanted it to show his kids what life was like in their early years. “I wanted them to see that Dad wasn’t just gone just to be gone. I was gone, doing something to build, to be great, and so whenever they get older, they can see that,” he told CBS News.