The Kansas City Chiefs didn't end the season the way they would have hoped, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. The loss ended an incredible run for the Chiefs, who were looking to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls.
Weeks after the Super Bowl, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes appeared at a Texas Tech basketball game with a noticeably shorter haircut. During a recent press conference, Mahomes discussed the hairstyle change after his team lost the big game.
“I’ve wanted to do it for a while but it was kind of one of those superstitions,” Mahomes said, according to Fox4 Kansas sports director Rob Collins.
“I kept winning the Super Bowl, which is a good thing, but I didn’t want to cut the hair while I was doing it.”
Mahomes said that he had his mind made up on cutting his hair after the season, regardless of whether or not the Chiefs won the Super Bowl for a third straight time.
“I had told everybody during the season that win or lose, if we win three in a row, or we lose, I’m getting the hair cut,” the quarterback said.
Mahomes also said that he prefers the new style, and "can't believe" his teammates let him keep the old style for as long as he did.
According to an interview with Us Weekly, Mahomes' barber said that the cut was initially going to be even more drastic before an intervention.
“I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off,” Mahomes' barber DeJuan Bonds said.
“We’re actually going to collab on this and go a little bit at a time, take it a little bit down. We kind of came to a common ground like, ‘OK, this is the cut, this is the cut, this is the length.’ It was a collaboration on this last one.”
Mahomes and the Chiefs will see where the new haircut takes them as they look to get back to the Super Bowl next season. They selected an offensive lineman - Ohio State's Josh Simmons - in the first round of this weekend's NFL Draft, a pick that's sure to make Mahomes happy.
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