In 2005, when one of this year’s Super Bowl quarterbacks was winning his third NFL title, and when he was dating a Hollywood actress, earning millions of dollars per year, the other was in Mrs. Gibson’s third grade class.
“Hi, this is Patrick Mahomes and this is my story,” he wrote one day.
“Next, I am going to tell you that I am nine years old.”
The other quarterback, Tom Brady, was 27 years old at the time. He’d long been dicing secondaries and mingling with celebrities. Patrick, meanwhile, was learning to draw rainbows and flowers, and to spell tricky words at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler, Texas.