With his team set to face the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes recalled how the pain of losing Super Bowl LV has served as motivation to him and his teammates to win this year’s contest.
“The win is amazing,” Mahomes said with regard to his and the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIV victory a year before their bitter defeat. “It’s one of the best moments of your entire life. You take away all the positives from that. But that loss, that stings. That motivates you for years. What it’s done for me is it’s motivated me to be back in this game again. I want to make sure that I can have that winning feeling and not that losing one because that losing feeling is one you’ll never forget.”
Upon facing the Eagles on Sunday, the Chiefs will appear in their third Super Bowl in four years. While Mahomes suffered a high ankle sprain during this year’s divisional round playoff against Jacksonville Jaguars, he played around his injury as the Chiefs emerged victorious.
