An NFL Quarterback’s Wife Spoke Out With A Powerful Message

Mahomes isn’t just famous for his football skills, but for his personal life as well. Everything he does — and everything his family does too — tends to make headlines all over social media. And so fans started to be interested in Matthews as well. Very interested.

Matthews is going to be even more famous soon, because in September 2020 Mahomes asked her to marry him, and she said yes. Both knew full well that once they tied the knot, public scrutiny of Matthews would probably get even more intense. But she doesn’t necessarily have positive feelings about this.

Still, Matthews does very much share her life with the world, including the thousands of fans who follow her husband's football career. When she threw her bachelorette party in February 2022, she made sure people knew about it. The big bash was posted all over social media and it looked pretty exciting.

Matthews even used the occasion to promote her business, just as she later used an appearance to promote a message. She’s a certified fitness trainer — definitely a good choice of career when your spouse is a professional football player — and has her own company, Matthews Lynn Fitness. So for the bachelorette party, she and her guests took part in a “Britt’s Bach Bootcamp.”

That wasn’t all. The group, which included Sydni Russell and Kayla Nicole, also took part in a slightly naughty activity. They played “the panty game” where guests bring underwear for the bride-to-be. And after that, they watched the romcom Marry Me. All in all, a great night for all concerned.

Oh, and Mahomes had a great time at his bachelor party as well. As per the New York Post, he and his group — which included his Chiefs teammates Orlando Brown, Jerick McKinnon, Travis Kelce, and Clyde Edwards-Helaire — went to Las Vegas and had dinner at a luxury steakhouse overlooking the Strip. That was only the beginning of their night, though.

Once they were done with their luxury steaks, the quarterback and his group went to the Rose Rooftop and partied in front of its 100,000-square-foot LED screen, which displayed a picture of Mahomes and Matthews. After that they went to the TAO nightclub and partied again, all while getting VIP service.

You can see why people are so obsessed with these two. They’re living the high life all right, and they’ve got the money to keep living it for the rest of their lives. Mahomes signed an NFL contract worth $503 million in July 2020 and while no one knows exactly how much Matthews pulls in every year, it’s a lot.

And people are also very interested in their love story. It’s a cute one. The pair were actually high-school sweethearts, having started dating in the tenth grade of Whitehouse High School in Texas. Mahomes was doing sports back then too: he was primarily a baseball pitcher, while Matthews was — no prizes for guessing this — a cheerleader.

Matthews graduated high school in 2013 and Mahomes in 2014 and then they began working on their respective careers. Matthews said of her beau to TV’s Today show in 2020, “He ended up going to Texas Tech, and that’s when it really hit me… he might go play professional football.” He did.

Although Matthews was a sportsperson in her own right — she actually played soccer at the University of Texas — she soon became more noted for being Mahomes’ support as he rose through the ranks. When the NFL star was named MVP of the 2020 Super Bowl, his girlfriend was right there cheering along.

Less than a year after that exciting Super Bowl win, Mahomes proposed. He popped the question in a private room at the Arrowhead Stadium, on the very same day the Chiefs received their Super Bowl rings. And Matthews, of course, said yes. But she couldn’t have known what was to come for her.

Matthews wrote a touching post on Instagram after she, too, received her ring. She said, “On a day that was meant to celebrate you, you turned it into celebrating us. It’s always us, it’s always you and me. The words you looked into my eyes and said to me at this moment, will NEVER leave my mind!”

She went on, “You made this day perfect, you took my entire breath away and I could not have imagined anything better. I love you, forever and always! Cheers to spending our lifetime together and an inseparable bond.” And so far, they have indeed been inseparable… despite obstacles.

And the couple have a child together as well. Sterling Skye Mahomes was born two weeks after her dad competed in the Super Bowl LV, and her proud parents often post pictures of her on Instagram. Perhaps her daughter was one of the things on her mind when Matthews revealed her important message.

Things haven’t been easy for the Mahomes family recently. For a start, Mahomes’ younger brother Jackson keeps getting in the news for bad behavior. For example, in 2021 a Kansas City restaurant posted a public calling-out regarding an incident that took place on their premises, and it had some pretty pointed things to say.

Representatives of the small business wrote online for everyone to see, “We are sorry that we set boundaries that you tried to ignore. Oftentimes people with unearned status and a sense of entitlement think they are above the rules and will lash out at the employee enforcing them.” Ouch.

Then in September 2021, Jackson was filmed dunking water over some Ravens fans who were making fun of him. Afterwards he quipped on Twitter, in response to the video, “They were thirsty.” Many people weren’t impressed, but then right on the heels of that, he was embroiled in another controversy.

In October of that year, Jackson was spotted dancing and filming a TikTok on Sean Taylor’s number at the FedEx Field. This horrified people, as Taylor had been shot and killed at the age of just 24 and his number was being retired. Jackson apologized, saying on Twitter, “We were directed to stand in the area and I meant absolutely no disrespect to him or his family.”

But where’s the line between criticism and bullying? This is what Matthews had to confront in 2022. And it’s the reason she turned to the Charlie Hustle company to create a new line of T-shirts which she debuted on Instagram, yellow creations with the words “Team Brittany” on the front in scarlet.

Like her brother-in-law, Matthews had faced controversy in recent months. Ironically, her incident also involved covering people with liquid, just as with Jackson and those Ravens fans. While celebrating the Chiefs winning against the Bulls in January, she had sprayed champagne over the crowd beneath her. 

It had been a sincere celebration, but many people weren’t pleased, especially since Matthews was sitting in her VIP box when she did it. One person wrote on social media, “If she gone [sic] be throwing champagne on the common folk she need[s] to be sitting with the common folk. Just sayin’.”

But it soon seemed like things were getting out of hand. A day later Matthews tweeted, “I just wish I could do what I want without getting attacked every week.” Then she retweeted someone else’s post, which read, “People complaining about Matthews spraying champagne into the stands have clearly never won anything before.”

Many celebrities have to deal with negativity on social media, and sometimes that negativity can get very intense. Matthews posted on January 25, “Hate is a very strong word to just be thrown at someone you don’t even know,” which indicated that the rude messages were starting to get to her.

This isn’t the only thing Matthews has been dealing with, though. In February 2022 former football player Rick Ohrnberger tweeted out a supposed news story about Mahomes banning his then-fiancée and his brother from games. Apparently “they had become a distraction, and their sideline antics are bad for his brand.”

Naturally, Mahomes was not happy about these allegations against his family, and he replied to the original post, “Y’all just be making stuff up these days.” Matthews of course agreed with him, quote-tweeting her man and writing one simple word: “Legit.” Ohrnberger had to delete the tweets and apologize.

Shortly afterwards Ohrnberger spoke to The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon about the incident. He said he truly believed he had been “handed a piece of information that you believe with all your heart is true, sounds true, is from a credible source.” But it hadn’t been that at all.

Ohrnberger said he’d been deliberately misled about the Mahomes family. According to him, “This was an interesting situation because I thought I was having a text-message conversation with someone who I trust deeply, with someone who I respect in this business deeply. Someone who I’ve reached out to for advice from in the past, interview requests from in the past, and the context was accurate.”

It seemed there was more to this story. The Twitter account ProFootballTalk reported, “Someone has been pushing a false narrative that Patrick Mahomes has banned his brother and fiancée from Chiefs games.” Another reporter, Matt Verderame, claimed that four people had received rumor-spreading texts about the Mahomes family.

Who had been sending them? We simply don’t know. Matt Verderame mentioned on his Twitter account that he had no idea how the sender of the text got his number. But as you can imagine, it’s been tough to be on the receiving end of this apparent campaign, so Matthews is now fighting back.

When Matthews showed off her new endeavor on Instagram, she also explained the thinking behind them. The Charlie Hustle company had approached her, she said, not the other way round, and she decided to turn the “opportunity into something good.” She was hoping to raise money for an anti-bullying charity.

The chosen charity was Red Card KC, based in Kansas City where Matthews herself also lives. Its website’s “about” page reads, “Bullying isn’t something that happens somewhere else to someone else. It’s happening right here in Kansas City, and it’s one of the most toxic social issues of our time.”

Matthews says on her Instagram Stories, “Obviously, I do receive a lot of hate on a daily basis on social media and I know so, so, so many other people do as well. I’m lucky enough to have a good support system and a city that is lifting me up but I know there are a lot of people out there struggling with this.”

She goes on, “So that’s why I’m proud to just partner with this company and get behind this cause and hopefully push everything into the right direction and start spreading some more positivity on all of these platforms. I hope you guys just use this as a daily reminder to let you know that words are very powerful and it costs you nothing to be kind and nice to people.”

Things seem to be going well with the campaign so far. Lots of Matthews supporters came out on social media after the T-shirts were announced. And Mahomes’ significant other showed how serious she was when she tweeted, “I will be personally matching the donation made to Red Card KC. I appreciate the KC Community!”

And in the comments beneath that tweet, more people came out in support of Matthews. A twitter user declared, “I was sitting below her at [the Chiefs vs Bulls] game. I’m sure it wasn’t unanimous, but the crowd was cheering WITH her and encouraging her when she did it. Cheers to a GREAT win and to the spontaneity that came in that moment.”

Another person said, in the Twitter thread where Matthews would have seen it, “It’s almost like the world isn’t ready for a supremely talented athlete who respects, loves and treats his partner as an equal. She’s allowed to have a personality and she’s a good role model for every young woman.”

So the tide may be changing for Mrs. Patrick Mahomes, especially after the big wedding. In February 2022, writer Sam Mcdowell published an article in The Kansas City Star titled, “The social media hate for KC Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and his fiancée is the worst of us.”

His article read, “If Mahomes and Matthews were not famous — if his occupation didn’t place him in front of millions of people every Sunday in the fall — we’d call this what it is. Bullying.” And that’s exactly what Matthews is hoping to campaign against now.