As rich, talented and insanely famous as Patrick Mahomes is, the Chiefs quarterback still views himself, in many ways, as an ordinary 27-year-old. Wealth and status apparently haven't changed his taste in beer, or how many he’s able to consume, throwing back copious amounts of Coors Light, whether it be on the golf course (he and teammate Travis Kelce are known to get rowdy on the links at Lake Tahoe) or at a standup show in Dallas, where comedian Andrew Santino was first introduced to Mahomes’ incredible proclivity for slugging silver bullets.
“He came for the first show and he was like, ‘Man, that was so f---ing fun.’ And he goes, ‘Well, alright, where do you want us now?’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to do the second show. You guys go have fun and I’ll see you whenever.’ And he’s like, ‘No, I think we’re going to stay for the second show,’” said Santino, recalling the genesis of his friendship with Mahomes during his recent appearance on Pardon My Take. “I thought for sure he would dip, but he’s like, ‘No, we want to stay.’ And the server comes up to me and she’s like, ‘That’s your party, right?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll take care of the bill, whatever it is.’ She’s like, ‘No, no, no. We’re comping everything anyway. I just want to let you know we have someone that’s going to have to go get more Coors Lights because Mr. Mahomes has finished it all.”
Even after crushing double-digit beers, Mahomes wanted to keep the party going, eventually convincing Santino to join them afterwards at a VIP nightclub, where Ezekiel Elliott’s body guards almost didn’t let him in. “I’m not kidding when I say this. Maybe 13 [beers] the first show. Maybe 10 the second show. And then we went out,” said the actor of Dave and I’m Dying Up Here fame, marveling not only at Mahomes’ insane alcohol tolerance, but his remarkable bladder, downing cold ones at an all-time clip, miraculously without having to excuse himself to the restroom every five minutes. “I’m almost 40, he’s much younger. So when the shows are done, I’m also tired, I worked. And Pat’s like, ‘Yo, let’s go out.’ And I’m like, ‘We’re out. It’s over.’ And he’s like, ‘No, no, no. Zeke is at this club.’ And of course, I was like, ‘I kind of want to see Ezekiel Elliott.’”
Mahomes seems poised to join the Mount Rushmore of athlete drinkers, a fraternity inhabited by prolific partiers like John Daly, Wade Boggs and David Wells, with the latter famously throwing a perfect game amid a crippling hangover following an all-night bender with Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Saturday Night Live. You’d think fatherhood (his wife, Brittany, recently gave birth to their second child) would have thrown a wrench in Mahomes’ hard-partying lifestyle, and perhaps it has, though, by the sound of it, the likely NFL MVP can still go as hard as anyone, a beer-lugging frat boy masquerading as one of the league’s best quarterbacks.
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