LAS VEGAS — When Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones arrived at Allegiant Stadium dressed in black for Super Bowl LVIII, it appeared the trio of Chiefs’ captains had collaborated in fully embracing the dark side and making Kansas City a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
But Mahomes says it wasn’t a coordinated decision to appear as America’s villains in roles in which they had been cast heading into Sunday’s game.
“I wish we would have decided that together,” Mahomes said at a press conference Monday morning in which he officially received his award as the game’s Most Valuable Player Award. “I think it just kind of happened that way. We’re in Vegas, you know, you have to throw on your best attire, and I have the most blacks.
“But it was cool to see that we kind of had that unity coming in.”
Mahomes arrived wearing a Louis Vuitton suit with a charcoal tie and black sunglasses. He did differ from his teammates by eschewing complete black for a white shirt.
Jones meanwhile wore a custom-made black-on-black swirl suit by Gentleman’s Playbook’s Tom Marchitelli. The New Jersey-based fashion designer custom-designed an all-red silk drip suit for L’Jarius Sneed on Sunday, as well as an off-white silk print and solid two-tone shorts suit. That was the antithesis of the all-black look of his teammates, and perhaps fitting for Hardman who emerged as the Chiefs’ hero with the game-winning touchdown catch in overtime.
But Mahomes saved his best praise for Kelce, who wore a Mike Amiri-designed black sequined bouclé shirt jacket and baggy trousers with a black t-shirt.
“I wish I would have been up there with Trav because Trav I feel like took it all the way over the top.”
