Patrick Mahomes is a once-in-a-generation talent, a player with a skill-set so unique that coaches and analysts struggle to find accurate comparisons.
His nickname, though, doesn’t have the same gravitas.
“I like Showtime,” Mahomes told Chiefs team reporter BJ Kissel during the final preseason game. “It’s what I had growing up, so we’ll stick with that one.”
Showtime feels too blah. Too easy.
And it’s been done before: by Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Lakers and by Lions WR Golden Tate, just to name a few.
In a Wikipedia entry for “Showtime,” in fact, there’s an entire subhead of sports-persons with the nickname.