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Football fans were stunned two weeks ago when a photo of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes appeared online showing him sporting a completely new haircut. Gone was the iconic Mohawk hairstyle that fans had gotten so used to seeing throughout his eight-year NFL career and that landed him a lucrative sponsorship deal with Head & Shoulders.
Many speculated that the change in look had something to do with the Chiefs getting blown out by the Philadelphia Eagles 40-22 in the Super Bowl. However, Patrick Mahomes didn’t do anything so drastic after losing by eve more than that (31-9) to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl in 2020, so was that really the reason?
Patrick Mahomes’ barber, DeJuan Bonds, thinks that actually might be one of the big reasons for the change.
“There might be a little bit of truth to that,” Bonds told Us Weekly. “Most of it came from the fact that he’s always been wanting to do it. But the Super Bowl loss might have ramped it up by a couple of days or weeks, sure.”
According to Bonds, Mahomes got the fresh new cut less than 48 hours after the Chiefs’ loss to the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
“We said we weren’t going to mess with past superstitions,” Bonds continued. “He wasn’t trying to mess with it and cut his hair before the football season. It was one of those things he had been wanting to do for a while. But he wanted to wait until after the Super Bowl. He was like, ‘Hey, it’s time to give me a new look.’”
Speaking to Fox News, DeJuan Bonds said, “I just think with the end of the season, frustration maybe, like, ‘You know what, I’m done. It’s time for a new look, change,’ and I think that’s pretty much what prompted his sudden urge. It probably was a little bit [frustration], then there was like, ‘Hey you know, it’s time for a new look.'”
Bonds also said that if Patrick Mahomes had gotten his way, the haircut would have been even more severe.
“A lot of times, when someone says, ‘Cut it off,’ they don’t really know. They’re just saying something. Me, as an experienced barber, I know that ‘cut it off’ really don’t mean ‘cut it off,'” Bonds said.
Bonds added, “It could have been very low, but I know better than that. I know better than to follow anybody’s directions when they ‘just cut it off’ unless I ask them multiple times, and they say yes, and they want it all the way off, and I know he didn’t want that.”