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<\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t until he experienced an unneighborly welcome in the City of Good Neighbors that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes realized that some people simply don\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n
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The three-time Super Bowl champion, who is widely viewed as the face of the NFL thanks to the fact that he\u2019s re-writing the league\u2019s record books in realtime, has seen his once pristine perception skew in recent years due solely to the fact that\u00a0he\u2019s just too good<\/em>.<\/p>\n He just keeps winning, and non-Kansas City supporters have tired of the schtick. He\u2019s won two NFL MVP Awards in the past six years. The Chiefs have represented the AFC in four out of the last five Super Bowls, winning three of them. It seems as though Kansas City plays in a nationally televised game\u2014often in primetime\u2014in every week of the regular season.<\/p>\n Football fans are simply tired of seeing Mahomes and his team win, this weariness evolving into disdain over time. Perhaps no fanbase has grown more tired of the signal-caller than that of the Buffalo Bills, as Mahomes has stood firmly in the path of the team during its most competitive stretch of the century.<\/p>\n Buffalo has been a perennial contender since the 2019 NFL season, with Josh Allen cementing himself as one of the best signal callers in the league over that stretch. The Bills have deployed one of the league\u2019s most potent offenses and have won 58 regular season games over the past five years\u2026 and have not even a single Super Bowl appearance to show for it. The Chiefs have eliminated Buffalo in three out of the past four postseasons, most recently in the 2024 NFL Divisional Round.<\/p>\n And it was at this game\u2014which was played on a chilly January night at Highmark Stadium\u2014that Mahomes first saw proof of his skewing perception. During a recent appearance on the Impaulsive Podcast, the passer spoke about the game, stating that it served as confirmation of his newly-established reputation as a villain.<\/p>\n \u201cThis year, definitely, it was a more villain-type role for the whole team,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I really realized it; I had heard people talking, obviously social media, there are people always talking, so I didn\u2019t know how real it was until I got to Buffalo this year, and I think I saw 40,000 middle fingers on the way into the stadium. [Bills fans] were ready. They were ready to go.<\/p>\n \u201cWe go out there and win, I\u2019m trying to hand my headband and sleeve off to a kid, and there are just snowballs flying at me. I\u2019m like, these people really don\u2019t like me. It\u2019s not fake at all. I think they have a great fanbase, we have a healthy respectful rivalry with the Bills. The fanbase, they want to beat us.\u201d<\/p>\n Mahomes\u2019 reign of terror does not appear to be stopping anytime soon; he\u2019s only 28 years of age, head coach Andy Reid is still his play-caller, and Kansas City just bolstered its offense by selecting speedy wide receiver Xavier Worthy in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n But every villain needs a hero to oppose them, to overcome adversity and defeat their antagonist when all eyes are on them. For Bills Mafia\u2019s sake, let\u2019s hope it\u2019s that Allen dons the cape and downs Mahomes in a climactic battle in next year\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It wasn\u2019t until he experienced an unneighborly welcome in the City of Good Neighbors that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes realized that some people simply don\u2019t… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nflnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n