Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs became the third Black quarterback to win the Super Bowl.
After making a game changing play with less than eight minutes left, Mahomes threw a touchdown pass to Damien Williams, and led the team to their first Super Bowl win in fifty years.
In an interview with ESPN, the 24-year-old stated, “For me, being a black quarterback — having a black dad and a white mom — it just shows that it doesn’t matter where you come from. It doesn’t matter if you’re a baseball player or basketball player, follow your dreams. Whatever your dreams are, put the work ethic in and you can be there at the end of the day.”
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Mahomes didn’t have a good run the first half of the game, but his teammates still believed in him.
In a post Super Bowl interview, the MVP said, “I knew we weren’t in the ideal situation. I believed in my defense to get stops, and they did. Then the guys kept believing in me and kept making plays downfield, and we found a way to win.”
With this major win, this has definitely secured his place in Kansas.
“Just the people and how they accept you, how they care more about you as a person than they do as a player. And how much passion they have for the Chiefs, it’s special and it’s somewhere where I want to be for the rest of my career.”
Mahomes is from Tyler, TX and was a first round draft pack (10th overall), in 2017. He is also deemed as the youngest Super Bowl MVP, in NFL history.
In 2014, Russell Wilson led the Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl XLVIII win. Before him, the first Black quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl was Doug Wilson of the Washington Redskins, in 1987. In total, there have been seven Black quarterbacks that have played in the Super Bowl game.
