The Kansas City Chiefs are at the forefront of the NFL‘s attempt to “get in on the action” and challenge the NBA for Christmas Day live sports supremacy. By scheduling the Chiefs to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday, the NFL has guaranteed attention and eyeballs on its most-recognizable team.
Of course, it probably helped that the Chiefs won, as Kansas City wrapped up the AFC‘s #1 seed via a 29-10 win in Pittsburgh against the sliding Steelers. The Chiefs, now 15-1, have nothing to play for in Week 18 — giving Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes a golden chance to rest and relax before the season’s most important month: January.
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Patrick’s motivations: Brittany and child no. 3
For Mahomes, football comes second to family — especially a family that will grow in 2025. Speaking after the Chiefs’ three-score win at Acrisure Stadium, Patrick revealed that securing a bye in the first round of the playoffs will allow him to support his wife Brittany at home as she nears her due date to give birth to the couple’s third child.
“I told my wife I was gonna get her the No. 1 seed so we can go have that baby,” the Chiefs‘ star quarterback said on Netflix, which broadcast Chiefs-Steelers.
The remark came on the heels of Patrick’s admission in a separate interview with streaming giant that Brittany is “due any day now“, and the family‘s “holiday card” photo session shows a seated Brittany sporting a noticeable baby bump.
With the job now done in the regular season, and Kansas City having clinched the AFC’s best record, the Mahomes family will be together again to welcome another child into the world. The arrival of child #3 comes as Patrick and the Chiefs seek a third consecutive Super Bowl victory — and as Patrick is in his best form of the season, seeing as he completed 29 of his 38 passes for 320 yards and three touchdowns against a good Steelers defense, a stat line that included a TD pass to Kelce in the second half.