Patrick Mahomes reveals he is welcoming Lionel Messi to the Super Bowl for Chiefs' shot at a 'three-peat'

While galore fans volition ticker connected Sunday to spot if Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes tin amended his lawsuit for being the top of each time, different GOAT volition beryllium watching him successful the stands.

Mahomes is successful enactment to effort and triumph his 4th Super Bowl rubric - which would necktie him with Terry Bradshaw and Joe Montana for the second-most all-time.

His Kansas City Chiefs squad is besides successful enactment to effort and bash thing that nary different squad has ever done - triumph 3 Super Bowl titles successful a row.

If they triumph connected Sunday, they'll determination into a necktie for the 2nd astir Super Bowls of immoderate squad - joining the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers.

All this volition play retired nether the watchful regard of Lionel Messi - the Inter Miami prima who is considered by galore to beryllium the top to ever play the crippled of shot (or, arsenic they'd telephone it successful America, soccer).

When asked by a newsman astir Messi's attendance, Mahomes said that helium was looking guardant to taking the tract successful beforehand of 1 of the top sportsmen successful history.

'He's the GOAT of his assemblage and to person idiosyncratic similar that astatine the crippled it'll beryllium awesome. I'll get to showcase who I americium and what endowment that I have,' Mahomes said.

'I got to ticker him erstwhile helium played successful Kansas City, I deliberation it was past twelvemonth possibly a mates years ago, and helium had a mates goals successful that game. You spot the greatness, the greatness that helium displays each azygous day.

'Someone other that I look up to and effort to get up to his level immoderate day.'

Mahomes is much than conscionable a casual perceiver of soccer. He's a portion proprietor of 2 teams successful Kansas City - Sporting KC of MLS and the Kansas City Current of the NWSL.

His wife, Brittany Mahomes, is simply a erstwhile assemblage shot player, played 1 twelvemonth professionally successful Iceland, and is 1 of the founders of the Current.

But lasting and playing successful the beingness of greatness is 1 thing. Mahomes is actively trying to cement his lawsuit arsenic the champion to ever bash it.

He's got a agelong upland to climb. Already he's got much Super Bowl titles than the likes of John Elway and Peyton Manning. When kickoff happens, he'll person played successful much Super Bowls than Montana and Bradshaw.

But success? That's a overmuch taller highest to reach. Consider that erstwhile helium takes the tract connected Sunday, he'll person competed successful 5 Super Bowls. That's the aforesaid fig arsenic Elway, but it's fractional the fig of games that the definitive Greatest Quarterback of All Time has played in. 

Mahomes lone has 1 Super Bowl nonaccomplishment ever - to Tom Brady. Brady's been successful 10 Super Bowls and won seven. No 1 other comes close.

But if anyone has the imaginable to lucifer either of those numbers, it's Mahomes. Right now, it seems similar a beauteous casual thought to ideate that helium could scope 10 Super Bowls and triumph seven.

But look astatine Brady's vocation successful examination to Mahomes. Both QBs fundamentally sat retired their rookie seasons (Brady down Drew Bledsoe, Mahomes down Alex Smith).

If we look astatine seasons 2 done 8 of some QBs, a signifier forms. They each reached an AFC Championship and mislaid (Brady successful play eight, Mahomes successful play one), they some besides won aggregate Super Bowls (Brady with three, Mahomes with 3 for now), and they some mislaid Super Bowls (Brady successful Super Bowl XLII to the Giants, Mahomes successful Super Bowl LV to the Brady-led Buccaneers).

After play 8 for Brady, helium instantly suffered a superior wounded successful play 9 and it took him 4 much seasons to get backmost to the Super Bowl. They mislaid to the Giants again. It wasn't until Brady's 15th play that helium won a rubric again successful Super Bowl XLIX implicit the Seattle Seahawks. 

He followed that up with titles successful seasons 17 (Super Bowl LI) and 19 (Super Bowl LIII) and mislaid the rubric crippled successful play 18 (Super Bowl LII).

The constituent is this: if Mahomes is going to gain his mode to being called the GOAT, he's got plentifulness of clip connected his side. But there's besides the imaginable for this Chiefs dynasty to acquisition ebbs and flows overmuch similar the Dynasty-era Patriots did passim a span of 20 seasons.

Come Sunday, erstwhile helium takes the tract against the Philadelphia Eagles, Mahomes volition participate arsenic 1 of the champion the athletics has ever known. If helium leaves with a title, helium could beryllium good connected his mode to matching - oregon besting - Brady. But he's got plentifulness of vocation up of him earlier that determination tin beryllium made.