Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City Chiefs headed back east to take on the Washington Football Team Sunday afternoon.
The backdrop here was Washington finally deciding to retire the No. 21 jersey of the late-great Sean Taylor, who was murdered back in 2007 as he protected his family from an armed burglary.
The decision to retire Taylor’s number on short notice with Washington embroiled in a scandal was already met with skepticism.
We now have Patrick Mahomes brother, Jackson, to thank for marring an otherwise emotional and heartfelt day in D.C. on Sunday.
Ahead of the game, younger brother of Kansas City’s star quarterback was seen dancing on the No. 21 logo for a dumb TikTok video. It was embarrassing. It was disgusting.
There’s literally no reason for this. No excuses. Everyone with a heart or a sense of decency should be appalled. But for Jackson Mahomes, this type of incident is nothing new.
Patrick Mahomes continues to have to answer for Jackson Mahomes
Earlier this season, the younger Mahomes made news by throwing water on Baltimore Ravens fans following an ugly Chiefs loss to their conference rivals. The video went viral. In fact, it led to questions from Chiefs reporters during the in-week press conference following the game.
“Yeah, I mean, obviously it’s something that we don’t want to necessarily do. There was things said to him, and Brittany, that you don’t see kind of on the clip. But, I mean he’s been good at it, at not trying to respond to that stuff,” Patrick Mahomes said about his younger brother’s antics. “He takes a lot and he’s usually pretty good at it. And he’ll learn from it and just try to stay away from those people as best he can.”
There’s immaturity. There’s also bad taste. What we’ve seen from the younger Mahomes this season seems to be a combination of the two. Attempting to go viral on social media and the like and forcing your older brother to answer for you. Not a great look.
For his part, Jackson Mahomes did take to social media to apologize for the incident while providing what seems to be a lame excuse.
“I want to sincerely apologize for accidentally being on the Sean Taylor #21 at FedEx Field. We were directed to stand in that area and I meant absolutely no disrespect to him or his family,” Mahomes wrote on Twitter.
Sure.