What Tom Brady told Patrick Mahomes about possible Chiefs three-peat

Tom Brady insisted during Monday's edition of the "Let's Go!" SiriusXM show and podcast released that he would "be very happy for" the Kansas City Chiefs if they become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls if they defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans on Sunday. 

Brady, Fox's lead in-game analyst who will call Super Bowl LIX, revealed what he told Mahomes about the upcoming matchup during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. 

"I did a great interview with Patrick for the Super Bowl pregame show," Brady explained, The Athletic's Rebecca Tauber and Richard Deitsch shared. "I said to him, 'Look, there is nobody that would be more happy for you than me if you go out and you do something that no other team in history has ever done and no other quarterback [has] ever done.' Because I love seeing other people achieve great things. Anything that Patrick is doing I don’t believe will ever detract from what I accomplished in my career." 

Many may have assumed the ultra-competitive Brady would either silently or actively root against Mahomes for reasons other than the fact that TB12 is a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, one of Kansas City's division rivals. After all, Mahomes left little doubt in February 2024 that he wanted to at least match the seven Super Bowl rings and five Super Bowl MVPs that Brady earned during his career. 

Mahomes will enter this Sunday's contest as a three-time Super Bowl champion and a three-time Super Bowl MVP. He could forever have bragging rights over Brady by becoming the first quarterback to lead a team to three straight Super Bowl victories, but Brady seems to realize that just about every record was made to be broken. 

"There’s going to be another player beyond Patrick years from now that will be compared," Brady added. "…The comparisons are fun naturally for the media because it serves different kind of perspectives and context that people can write about and talk about. As a competitor, I never viewed it that way and I still don’t today even in the role that I am."

A minority owner of the Raiders shaking the hand of a Chiefs quarterback minutes after the latter has guided his club to a Super Bowl championship could make for a surreal television moment. However, if Mahomes is eventually seen as the GOAT player at the sport's most important position, this interaction could also be a passing-of-the-torch.