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    How growing up in an MLB clubhouse prepared Patrick Mahomes for NFL stardom

    by Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2023 6 minutes
    Pat Mahomes, father of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes looks on after the Chiefs defeated the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 19, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri.

    Pat Mahomes spotted the wizardry as it unfolded before him on the Arrowhead Stadium field, long before the 74,336 fans on hand for a 2018 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, and right before television analyst Tony Romo noticed it on the CBS broadcast.

    Mahomes’ son, Patrick, in his first season as starting quarterback for the Chiefs, had slipped a rusher in the pocket, taken a few quick steps to his right and, with his head and eyes facing straight downfield, flicked a pass to his left to Demarcus Robinson on a crossing pattern for a 17-yard gain.

    “When he did it, I looked back and said, ‘He just threw a no-look pass,’ and everybody was like, ‘No he didn’t,’ ” Mahomes said in a phone interview from his home in Tyler, Texas, about 100 miles east of Dallas. “Then we looked at the replay, and sure enough, he had.”

    How did the elder Mahomes, a former pitcher who played for six big league teams from 1992 to 2003, know in real time what had happened?

    “I’m just

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