As sure as Tom Brady chased his idol Joe Montana, and Tiger Woods chased Jack Nicklaus, and LeBron James still chases Michael Jordan, Patrick Mahomes now chases Brady.
Once an all-everything baseball and football prospect who attracted legions of major college recruiters to Stamford, Conn., Bobby Valentine has watched, competed with, and competed and coached against special athletes over more than six decades.. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback was a 4-year-old in Valentine’s Shea Stadium clubhouse in 1999, the year Mahomes’ father Pat went 8-0 for the Mets and pitched four scoreless innings against the Braves in Game 6 of the NLCS.
“When it was called to my attention that Patrick was so young and on the field,” Valentine recalled the other day, “I believed, and so did his dad, that he could handle himself.”“Mozart did it when he was 5 at the piano, and Patrick was doing it on the sports field at the same age,” he said. “I like genius when I see one or hear one, and Patrick is a genius. If he stays motivated, he will be the greatest ever.
Keeping in touch is precisely what Mahomes is planning to do. He might never approach Brady’s title total, but it is a fact that the 27-year-old Mahomes will become the youngest quarterback to make his third Super Bowl start — beating Brady by 39 days — when he faces the Eagles next Sunday in the Arizona desert.
“I have a good relationship with him now and he gives me a lot of advice,” Mahomes said. “I mean, why would you not want to learn from the GOAT? Anytime anybody like that wants to give me advice, I’ll take it in. And it’s cool to see the guys that you watched growing up your whole life be able to talk to you on that type of platform.
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