Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady might be the Madden 22 cover athletes, but it doesn’t mean they can beat family members when it comes to the classic EA Sports football game.
Patrick Mahomes spent hours in the game room in the back of the house he grew up in, trying over and over to figure out how to do the thing he couldn’t: beat his dad. This wasn’t in a real-life competition, but rather a virtual one. Mahomes and his father, Pat, would play EA Sports’ Madden video game franchise often, and as much as he tried, the future Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and Madden 20 and 22 cover athlete couldn’t win. «My dad used to beat me with Randy Moss and Daunte Culpepper and the Vikings,» Mahomes told ESPN during an interview about his selection as a Madden 22 cover athlete. «He would just throw like, just, bombs for touchdowns, and I would be like crying in the game room. «It was a lot of fun, and I always used to try to get better when I played it, and I still play to this day.» Mahomes, a Dallas Cowboys fan as a kid, tried using every team to beat his father but with little success. He even tried using the team of fellow cover athlete Tom Brady, who has had his own Madden adventures. Using Brady or anyone else, Mahomes would log hour after hour practicing the game, but Culpepper-to-Moss was unstoppable. Playing also taught Mahomes some of the basics of football, helping him understand different routes and formations. The game has evolved since those days, but Mahomes still plays and, when he can, he’ll use himself and the Chiefs.
