Patrick Mahomes is finally addressing one of the toughest personal challenges he’s faced during his NFL career—the arrest of his father just days before the 2024 Super Bowl.
In the latest episode of ESPN’s Chiefs Kingdom, which premiered on August 20, the 29-year-old Kansas City Chiefs quarterback opened up about the fallout from Patrick Mahomes Sr.’s third DWI charge. The arrest took place on February 3, 2024, in Tyler, Texas—only a week before Mahomes led his team onto football’s biggest stage.
“It was during that Super Bowl. It became a story, and so, I had to answer questions about it,” Mahomes recalled, per PEOPLE. “I think just knowing that it hurt me woke him up to know that like, you can't keep doing the same things.”
For Mahomes Sr., a former MLB pitcher, the situation was equally painful. “For him to have to answer questions about me was probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever been through in my life,” he admitted.
According to police reports, Mahomes Sr. was pulled over with an open beer in the car and registered a blood alcohol content of 0.23. He pled guilty in August 2024 and later served a 10-day county jail sentence in October. It wasn’t his first time behind bars for drinking and driving—he previously spent 40 days in jail after a 2018 DWI.
The episode also captured how the arrest weighed on the rest of the Mahomes family. Brittany Mahomes, Patrick’s wife, explained that the incident became a wake-up call for her father-in-law. “I think it finally hit him that his kids and grandkids are watching,” she said.
Mahomes Sr. admitted that throughout his baseball career, he never thought alcohol was a real problem. “It was just something that I’ve always done,” he said. But now, he acknowledged, the consequences are too serious to ignore.