Who's Worse: Jackson Mahomes or The Washington Football Team?
(Screenshot via @jacksonmahomes on TikTok)
This past weekend two very, very shitty things happened at FedEx field. The first was the Washington Football Team held a last minute jersey retirement for the late, great Sean Taylor, and the other was that Patrick Mahomes’s Tik Tok star little brother, Jackson, danced on Taylors number.
The dancing videos are Jackson’s gameday tradition. He makes a TikTok somewhere on the sidelines or his box seats before the game, and then if the Chiefs get a W then he makes a celebratory video as well.
The pregame ones are basically a version of trash talk, or Jackson Mahomes’s way of getting in opponents heads (hilarious I know). Think of it as a version of JuJu dancing on the logo. This is normally fine if you just ignore it, but him dancing on Sean Taylor’s number is a dickhead move.
This isn’t the first time he’s made headlines either. After the Chiefs lost to the Ravens in week two there was a video of him pouring water on fans who were chirping him.
He did issue the apology above, but this is an “oh shit people are mad at me” apology, and not an “I disrespected a dead persons legacy” apology. Yes, it turns out he actually was directed to stand in that area, but that doesn’t mean you dance on the casket at a funeral.
He’s also 21, and should have more self-awareness than a 13 year old to know when and when not to make his trash TikToks.
As for the Washington Football Team, all I can say is what the fuck? The jersey retirement was announced, which was pretty incompetent in and of itself to begin with.
However, a lot of people are speculating that this decision was made last minute to divert fans attention from the email scandal that resulted in Jon Gruden’s resignation.
Washington exploiting a fan-favorite players death to help with PR is a new low for the franchise. Jackson Mahomes is annoying, but Washington is disgusting.
We can only hope that Mahomes can either stay out of headlines, or we simply stop paying attention to him. There is no hope for the Football Team, they are an organization full of scumbags who have no intention of changing.
Dan Snyder should be forced to sell the team.