Kansas City nearly paid the "Patrick Price" for a haircut this week ahead of Super Bowl 55.
The team's barber — scheduled to cut hair of more than 20 Chiefs players and staff members — tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly caused the team to force quarterback Mahomes to be deemed a close contact.
That raises the question of why Kansas City would allow the barber to cut players' hair before confirming they were negative for the coronavirus. (To be fair, the barber had tested negative for the disease for five days straight prior to the positive test). Regardless, an unintentionally funny detail from the episode is that the barber was pulled midway through cutting center Daniel Kilgore's hair. Though he was deemed a close contact, Kilgore at least had fun with the situation.
What's less funny and more spooky is the fact that it was eerily predicted in the form of a mean tweet. Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday revealed that Mahomes — who reportedly was next in line for his cut before the barber was pulled — joined an all-NFL cast of the "Mean Tweet" skit. Here's the tweet Mahomes read:
"I imagine Patrick Mahomes barber is a superhero. Who has to run out and save the world everytime he gets half way through Mahomes hair cut."
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And here's the video, which was taped well in advance of the Super Bowl:
Whoa this is weird… @PatrickMahomes #Chiefs pic.twitter.com/mmtvLqQVd3
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) February 4, 2021
As Kimmel says: Life imitates art.
Either way, the scare could have been much worse if the team had found out about the barber's COVID even just a little later. As it stands now, only Kilgore and receiver Demarcus Robinson have been deemed close contacts and placed on the COVID-19 list. They can still potentially make the Super Bowl by testing negative for the disease five straight days.
Kickoff for Super Bowl 55 against the Buccaneers is at 6:30 p.m., so it's possible they can play, even if it's with just a haircut-and-a-half.
