Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes brushes off report on family: 'Making stuff up'
Mahomes' family has been the talk of social media since the 2021 season started
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes responded to a report he had to sit-down with fiancee Brittany Matthews and brother Jackson to instruct them not to attend any games in 2022.
Rich Ohrnberger, a former NFL player-turned-analyst on TV and radio, relayed the message from a source. Ohrnberger tweeted that Mahomes believed Matthews and Jackson had become a "distraction" over the course of the season.
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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs greets fiancee Brittany Matthews prior to a game against the Baltimore Ravens Sept. 19, 2021, in Baltimore. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)
Matthews caused a stir when she sprayed champagne on fans after the Chiefs won a playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium, and Jackson came under fire over his TikTok dances, an apparent outburst at a local bar and his dumping of water on Baltimore Ravens fans after a Chiefs' loss.
The Chiefs star reacted to the report on Twitter.
"Y’all just be making stuff up these days," he wrote, as well as retweeting a FanDuel tweet.
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Ohrnberger later admitted the information he got was from a source who was "posing as someone I trust."
"I can’t substantiate the information that I tweeted out earlier today regarding Patrick Mahomes and his family. The source I received this information from was posing as someone I trust," Ohrnberger wrote.
"I will delete this tweet later today along with the original thread. Please pass this along."
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrates with fans as he walks off the field after an NFL divisional-round playoff game against the Buffalo Bills Jan. 23, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs won 42-36 in overtime. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)
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Mahomes has come to the defense of Matthews and his brother a few times over the last couple of years — most recently on Thursday after the couple went to a Texas Tech men’s basketball game. TMZ Sports noted that Matthews was talking to Red Raiders fans at her courtside seat.
"Man people are weird… love you babe," he wrote.
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Mahomes was asked about Jackson’s water bottle incident during the 2021 season.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (right) watches a game between the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets with brother Jackson Mahomes at the American Airlines Center March 10, 2019. (Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports)
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"Obviously, it's something we don't want to necessarily do," he told KSHB-TV. "There were things that were said to him and [Patrick’s fiance Brittany Matthews] that you don't see on the clip. He's been good at trying not to respond to that stuff. He takes a lot and he's usually pretty good at it, and he'll learn from it and try to stay away from those people as best he can."