Everyone usually desires to speak about the Drake curse for a reasonable cause. Drake is kind of (or plenty) annoying and has adopted each popular group and athlete like he’s this decade’s model of Kenny Chesney.
The curse is notorious enough that Todd Gurley won’t dare shop Drake’s quantity in his mobile for worry of karmic retribution. Even while it looks like it can be nearing its quit, we can’t make certain until the Raptors — one in all of Drake’s virtual teams — ultimately positioned away from the Warriors in the NBA Finals instead of taking a past-due timeout that kills their momentum.
But some other sports curse changed into just conquered, and it goes on properly below our noses this time.
For most of 2019, it seemed like Patrick Mahomes had a Faustian good buy with the universe. Mahomes turned into a shot inside the arm to the NFL last season, captivating enthusiasts of all groups in his first year as a starter. He becomes the league MVP and the closest we had to an online game character coming to life. He became the 1/3 quarterback ever to throw 50 touchdowns in a season. He left us scrambling for one-of-a-kind approaches to say “ridiculous.” He led the Chiefs to a sincere-to-god playoff win at Arrowhead Stadium.
The seize turned out that all his groups were doomed to return briefly of a championship.
Until now, that is. After the St. Louis Blues defeated the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final, we can appropriately say the Patrick Mahomes Curse is no extra.
For a while there, even though it was looking dicey. Let’s take a quick look at Mahomes’ sports year, as each an athlete and fan.
Chiefs vs. Patriots, AFC Championship Game
No one has to ever forget the Patriots’ real underdogs this millennium; however, the Chiefs were technically the fave in the AFC Championship Game this January. After all, Kansas City was the No. 1 seed within the conference, secured home-field benefit, and had the league MVP at quarterback.
But it turned into the Patriots, who jumped out early, taking a 14-0 lead into halftime. The Chiefs kept fighting as the game seesawed backward and forward, and with minutes to move, Mahomes led a five-play, sixty-eight-backyard force to position the house crew on top. On New England’s subsequent power, Tom Brady changed into picked off, and it gave the impression that the sport had changed over and the Chiefs had been headed to the Super Bowl.
The Patriots retook the lead performed later. Though Mahomes threw lengthy completions to get the Chiefs in discipline intention variety and send the sport beyond regular time, his day was completed. The Patriots received the coin toss, ran down the sector for the game-winning touchdown, and Mahomes never touched the ball again (because of the NFL’s OT rules, suuuuuck).
Texas Tech vs. Virginia, NCAA men’s basketball countrywide championship
When Texas Tech made its first-ever men’s basketball Final Four this spring, Mahomes changed into there to cheer on his alma mater. In the semifinals, he gave the Red Raiders a nearly aneurysm-inducing pregame pep talk and did no longer seem to dial down that depth throughout their game against Michigan State:
He had a front-row view (no longer actually, but near sufficient) in the title sport, and you couldn’t blame him if he felt a significant wave of deja vu: Texas Tech rallied from being down double digits — two times. A (correct) name at the worst time for his group overshadowed the whole thing. The Red Raiders were misplaced in time beyond regulation.
Mahomes didn’t get to touch the ball this time either, though that could’ve been cool.
