The football great gave an interview on Monday’s episode of The Drive on Audacy’s 610 Sports Radio, during which he discussed his thoughts after witnessing his daughter Sterling play for the first time in the National Football League.

Brittany Mahomes surprised Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, by bringing the couple’s 18-month-old daughter onto the field for the game that the Chiefs were playing against the Los Angeles Chargers on Thursday.

“She’s been in the stadium before, but she was very young and sat in the back, and she didn’t really know what was going on,” Patrick explained. “This is the very first time that she has ever actually gotten to be on the field.”

“It was past her bedtime, that’s why I didn’t expect her to be at the game, but it was cool to see her on the field before the game,” he continued. “It was cool to see her on the field before the game.” Because she became so exhausted so rapidly, she had no choice but to depart somewhat hastily.

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On Instagram a week ago, Brittany shared a touching photo of her father and daughter sharing a moment together. Brittany and her husband, an NFL star, are expecting a son early in the new year.

“Ster girl went to bed later than she was supposed to in order to shock her Daddy!! “Her first time on the field to see him,” Brittany wrote as the caption for a carousel of photographs from the evening that she posted to Instagram.

In addition to some adorable still photographs, the online gallery also had a brief video that demonstrated Patrick going up to the two of them and being shocked to see his daughter. Before rushing back onto the field, he first planted a kiss on Sterling, and then on Brittany.

The woman who is about to become a mother of two children also shared a snapshot of her growing baby bulge wearing a red outfit and a yellow purse that was propped up against it with the caption “Bumpin.”

The engagement between Brittany and Patrick took place in September of 2020, and two months later, in February 2021, they tied the knot in Hawaii. This was followed by the revelation that a new member had been welcomed into the family. They became friends while they were students at Whitehouse High School, which is located in Whitehouse, Texas.

Brittany wrote in a recent post on her Instagram Story that she “cannot wait to add another little babe” to her family, and the post received a lot of positive feedback.