The Eagles are facing Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LVII this Sunday, and it's safe to say the generationally-talented quarterback is picking his own team to beat the Eagles.
But once upon a time Mahomes was on the Eagles' side in the big game.
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Internet whiz Jon Bois of SB Nation went newspaper dumpster-diving this week and stumbled upon something absolutely incredible: a printed prediction from a 9-year-old Mahomes in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, one day before the Eagles faced the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIX.
Mahomes picked the Eagles to win the game, 35-28, calling the Donovan McNabb-quarterbacked squad "a better team":
The paper also printed a prediction from Mahomes' father at the bottom of the feature. The elder Mahomes predicted an Eagles win, 22-19, and simply wrote "Go Eagles!"
What are the odds that something like this exists? The world is a wild place, as is the Internet.
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The Mahomes men were proven incorrect, as Andy Reid's squad suffered a 24-21 defeat at the hands of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. It was the Patriots' third title in four years as the dynasty was officially underway.