Video shows Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes ask Ben Roethlisberger for a jersey after final game

Pete Grathoff
·1 min read

One of the football traditions that has all but vanished during the COVID-19 pandemic is players on opposing teams swapping jerseys on the field.

But just because fans no longer see it happening, that doesn’t mean the trades don’t take place.

During his weekly radio interview to KCSP (610 AM), Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes explained what he does when asked for a jersey.

“Usually for me, I just send it to the facility or the address of the guy’s house,” Mahomes said. “I don’t trade them on the field. And we kind of exchanged it that way.”

The reason for the question was mic’d-up video that showed Mahomes asking Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for his jersey Sunday after the Chiefs’ 42-21 victory in an AFC Wild Card Game.

It was the final game of his 18th and likely last season in the NFL. Roethlisberger, who turns 40 in March, is expected to hang up his cleats.

“I told him on the audio, I don’t want to take that last one from him,” Mahomes said. “But I said I want a jersey that he had in his career. And he said the same with me.”

The Chiefs’ video of the mic’d-up moments from Sunday’s game confirms this. There are also fun clips of Tyreek Hill joking with teammates that he looked like Will Smith after taking the pom-poms, and Mahomes saying he thought there was a chance tight end Travis Kelce would throw the ball to Mahomes on Kelce’s first career touchdown pass.

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