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While his wife Brittany courts controversy with her public iration for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Patrick Mahomes is fully focused on the grind ahead: the 2024 NFL season, which starts Thursday night in Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs will have to be ready to go from the instant a kicker's boot hits the ball for the first time. Kansas City is hosting the Baltimore Ravens, a team that aspires to knock the Chiefs off their perch in 2024 after coming up just short in last season's AFC Championship Game. As the target on their back grows larger with each ing year, Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Chiefs want to project a determination to win that is more fierce than ever before.
Mahomes is hungry for history
In an interview with Sky Sports, Mahomes revealed his mindset entering what is setting up to be an historic, era-defining season for the Chiefs. If Kansas City wins Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans next February, the Chiefs will become the first team ever to win the NFL's championship game three years in a row.
"The hunger (to win the Super Bowl again) is high," Mahomes confirmed. "No one has ever been able to win three Super Bowls in a row. It's obviously something you can strive to do."
Mahomes may already be gesturing toward February, but he is certain to make franchise history well before Super Bowl LIX -- in fact, as soon as Thursday night. Mahomes needs only 84 ing yards to sur Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Dawson as the Chiefs' all-time leader in the category. Doing so quickly would send a message that Kansas City's offense in 2024 will be more explosive than its 2023 vintage.
Having already won the Super Bowl in 2019, 2022, and 2023, Mahomes understands that returning to the NFL's summit requires that a lot goes right between September and January. Kansas City has to stay healthy, and star tight end Kelce has to defy Father Time as he turns 35 next month. But by working each day to stay a step ahead of the Ravens, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Buffalo Bills, and the Houston Texans, two-time league MVP Mahomes is confident the Chiefs can emerge from the rubble on Feb. 9, 2025 as champions once again.
"You know how hard it's gonna be," Mahomes said of the road ahead. "But all you can do is come to work every single day, and we're a long way away."