Patrick Mahomes speaks out on Chiefs' 'villain' reputation amid 'rigged' Super Bowl conspiracies

It's different extremity of an NFL season, different play wherever the Kansas City Chiefs person reached the apical of the heap and are acceptable to contend for different Super Bowl.

Back successful the 2019 season, erstwhile the Patrick Mahomes-era Chiefs archetypal reached the Super Bowl, they were seen arsenic underdogs that were worthy cheering for.

Cut to contiguous and that couldn't beryllium further from the case. Now, the squad is definitively the NFL's Big Bad Wolf and seen by galore arsenic the villains of the league.

It's truthful overmuch truthful that galore fans of the athletics believe that the Chiefs and the referees are conspiring to guarantee that Kansas City wins games - a assertion that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has dismissed arsenic a 'ridiculous theory'.

Theory oregon nary theory, the Chiefs are level retired disliked extracurricular of the Great Plains. Mahomes adjacent recognizes this himself, addressing however his squad is viewed astatine Super Bowl Opening Night connected Monday.

'I don't adjacent deliberation it's embracing being the villains. We clasp who we are,' Mahomes told reporters. 

'We judge we play the crippled the close way. We judge we play with a batch of bosom and a batch of passionateness for the game.

'And we triumph shot games, and if winning shot games makes you a villain, we're going to support going retired determination and doing it.'

It's a akin connection to what Mahomes said past twelvemonth astatine Super Bowl LVIII: 'I conscionable similar winning. If you triumph a batch and that causes you to beryllium the villain, I'm good with it.'

Essentially the connection is simple: occurrence breeds contempt and the Chiefs person been experiencing a batch of occurrence lately.

The Chiefs don't attraction astir however they're perceived. They're excessively engaged trying to bash thing nary different NFL squad ever has: triumph 3 consecutive Super Bowl titles. 

After beating the Philadelphia Eagles successful Super Bowl LVII and the San Francisco 49ers successful Super Bowl LVIII, they person the accidental to decorativeness disconnected the trifecta connected Sunday.

This time, it'll beryllium a re-match of that archetypal Super Bowl successful the acceptable - with the Eagles preparing to instrumentality connected KC.