Quarterback Patrick Mahomes reveals his favorite regular-season victory with Chiefs

CBS Sports announced its broadcast teams for the 2023 NFL season, and that led to fans on Twitter sharing praise for announcer Kevin Harlan.

The NFL even tweeted video of Harlan’s iconic call of two games at one time in the 2019 regular-season finale. Harlan and Rich Gannon were calling the Chiefs-Chargers game, but nearly everyone in Kansas City kept an eye on a game being played in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

That included Harlan.

Heading into that Week 17 game, the Chiefs had a chance to get a playoff bye, but they needed to beat the Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium and have the Patriots lose at home to the Dolphins.

That’s just what happened and Harlan was on the call for the end of both games.

That game, which the Chiefs won 31-21, remains quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ favorite in the regular season during his time in Kansas City.

Mahomes revealed that fact in a video shared by Netflix. The three stars of the docuseries “Quarterback” (Mahomes, Marcus Mariota and Kirk Cousins) answered a number of fun questions, and one was about their favorite regular-season game.

“Kevin Harlan was on the call where we won the game and the Patriots lost at the same exact time,” Mahomes said. “And I remember Coach (Andy) Reid had told them not to show the score because that determine if we were gonna get a bye or not. So obviously we thought the Patriots were going to win. And so you didn’t know the score.

“Even though we were on defense and nothing was going on we heard the fans, they started cheering. I remember we were asking fans, ‘Did they lose?’ They were telling us. That was a cool moment to have at Arrowhead.”

Here’s Mahomes on that memorable day.