If there’s at some point per yr the place NFL gamers aren’t afraid to get drunk in public, it is positively the day of their Super Bowl parade. I imply, who can overlook a drunken Tom Brady throwing the Lombardi Trophy off his boat in Tampa Bay.
The Chiefs held their parade on Wednesday and Patrick Mahomes did his finest to prime Brady’s antics when he appeared to GIVE THE LOMBARDI TROPHY AWAY to a random fan. I’m unsure how Super Bowl parades work as a result of I’ve by no means been in a single, however I’m fairly certain you are not supposed to present away the Lombardi Trophy.
Mahomes was positively ingesting alcohol for a lot of the parade, so it is utterly doable that he gave away the Lombardi Trophy, however is that what really occurred? I made a decision to try the proof and the proof exhibits a shocking reply.
First, let’s take a look at the clip of Mahomes giving the trophy away.
I’ll be trustworthy, that positively appears to be like like Mahomes is giving the trophy away. However, the large pink flag right here is that this video is from the NFL’s OFFICIAL Twitter account. My first thought when seeing it was that there was NO WAY ON GOODELL’S GREEN EARTH that the NFL’s official Twitter account would share a video of a drunken Mahomes giving the Lombardi Trophy away.
Even if I believed that, although, I needed to show it. The very first thing I did was scour the web for an image of Mahomes holding the trophy that he gave away and certain sufficient, I discovered one.
Here’s Patrick Mahomes holding the trophy he gave away.
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If you take a look at that trophy intently, you may discover there is a sticker on it and let me simply inform you, there isn’t a sticker on the precise trophy. If you take a look at any photographs of the particular Lombardi Trophy that had been taken on Wednesday, there isn’t a pink and white Chiefs brand on it wherever.
Not solely do now we have that picture, however now we have two movies, which had been taken by Chiefs fan Tyler Forte. The first video exhibits the fan holding the reproduction Lombardi Trophy and about 12 seconds into the video, we see Mahomes come over and seize the trophy, after which instantly give it again (There are a number of swear phrases within the video beneath, so flip your quantity down should you’re at work and you do not wish to get into bother).
In the second video, the identical group of followers are giddy as a result of Mahomes takes their trophy “once more.” Not solely does Mahomes take the trophy, however he fingers it off to Kadarius Toney, who walks away with the faux Lombardi.
At the 18-second mark within the video beneath, Toney fingers the trophy again to Mahomes and that is the place the video from the NFL’s Twitter account picks up the motion. (Once once more, there are a number of swear phrases within the video beneath, so flip your quantity down should you’re at work and you do not wish to get into bother).
Finally, it seems that the man who introduced the faux Lombardi to the parade really did an interview with Sports Radio 610 in Kansas City on Friday morning. The man’s identify is Vinnie Garofalo and his story appears to take a look at.
“I got here to the primary parade with the identical trophy — it is a reproduction by the best way — he by no means handed me the true one,” Vinnie stated.
So what occurred when Mahomes bought close to him?
“All I’m considering is ‘get this trophy into his fingers someway, a way,'” Vinnie stated. “I’m getting fairly hopeful after I see him strolling on my facet on the barricade. I’m screaming like a teenage lady at a Backstreet Boys live performance [to get his attention].”
At the purpose, Vinnie defined that Mahomes took the trophy on two totally different events, which we see within the two movies.
“He takes the trophy, raises it up, walks round, provides me a smile,” Vinnie stated. “Then he comes again, asks for the trophy once more, walks away, provides it to Kadarius Toney. They’re messing round with it, he comes again, I ask him for an image, he graciously waited for me to fumble round on my telephone to get a front-facing digital camera. Took the image, handed me the trophy, which is what everybody noticed, and went about on his merry means.
The verdict is in: Mahomes was positively drunk on the parade, however not drunk sufficient to present away the Lombardi Trophy.
