For the NFL, late June is non-competitive time. Unless this competition is completely artificial and has nothing to do with football.
Join the latest installment of The Match, a golf competition that started out as two teams, consisting of a professional golfer and a non-golfer, and progressed to a quartet of non-golfers in a two-on-two match has developed. Last year it was Old Goats (Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady) versus Young Guns (Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen). That year, teammates from their own sports became teammates for the Las Vegas competition.
And so Mahomes and Travis Kelce of the Chiefs took on Steph Curry and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors. Mahomes and Kelce won.
Kelce’s quote after the win was definitely red-hot: “I wouldn’t mind coming back here in February and defending the title, baby,” he said via CNN.com, referring to the fact that the next Super Bowl is being played in same city.
Mahomes also embraced the brand and used the event as another example of the value of teamwork.
“We knew from the start that if I just played decently, we would have a chance,” Mahomes said, according to CNN.com. “Steph is a great golfer. I think Klay did a good job today. But they didn’t have the team aspect that we had. . . . Literally, I would land a terrible punch, Trav a great one, and vice versa. That’s what you need in a team event like this and I think we went out there and showed what we can do.”
And Mahomes will no doubt find a way to use last night’s golf competition to further strengthen his bond with Kelce, making them even harder to beat when the 2023 season gets underway and the Chiefs look to become the first team to win since the Patriots made a repeat in 2003-04.