Patrick and Brittany Mahomes opened up about how they met and ended up together, becoming high school sweethearts and then husband and wife.
In the first episode of the Netflix series «Quarterback,» the star quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs said that he and Brittany met in seventh and eighth grade. Patrick said that Brittany was a grade above him, but he was stuck in the «friend zone.»
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes kisses Brittany Matthews before the AFC Championship game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium’s GEHA Field. (Jay Biggerstaff-USA Today Sports)
«It was like the best friend, in the friend zone forever,» he said. «I used to walk her to class and was trying to flirt. When I was a sophomore in high school, and she was a junior, I actually bought her a rose and had a little crush on her. But I was giving the pink as a joke, but kind of a ‘joke’ quote.»
Brittany said that Patrick thought it was a joke, but didn’t take it that way.
«I thought it was the cutest thing in the world,» she said. «And then everyone at our lunch table started chanting, ‘Kiss him, kiss him!’ and it made it really awkward because we were ‘just friends’ That’s how it started and I thought it was cute.…
Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl red carpet ceremony at Union Station. (Peter Aiken-USA Today Sports)
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«So they were singing and I thought it was kind of awkward, and it was funny and then just… I was like, ‘OK, this guy’s actually kind of cute. Maybe I like him.'» So we started talking and then we started dating.»
The rest is truly history.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes kisses his wife Brittany Mahomes before Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
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The two married in July 2022 and have two children.