Congrats To This Nebraska Quarterback On Winning "Liar of the Year" Award After Saying He Unintentionally Looks And Acts Completely Like Patrick Mahomes
Steven Branscombe. Getty Images.All of the greats always had someone they looked up to and aspired to be growing up. Having an idol isn't a bad thing at all. It's what drove them to become the best in the world by having their game influenced by the greats who came before them. Wayne Gretzky had Gordie Howe. Kobe Bryant had Michael Jordan. It's not even just contained to sports--musicians, artists, chefs. Everybody has idols whose influences are heavily apparent in their own craft.
Dylan Raiola is one of the best true freshman quarterbacks in the country. If you want to be the best, it's not a terrible idea to mold your game based on the best. So it makes sense why this kid would want to copy literally everything that Patrick Mahomes does. The look, the number, the pregame ritual.
No. The side by side isn't "WILD". It's just a kid doing a really good Patrick Mahomes impression. Long arm sleeve on the right, short arm sleeve on the left, only deduction I give him on the score here is that he had the towel on the wrong side.
However, Dylan Raiola is now trying to claim that this isn't an impression. That he's unintentionally become a near exact replica of Patrick Mahomes purely by accident.
I mean….c'mon, man. It's okay. You don't have to be afraid to admit it. Saying you got the haircut when you were in 7th grade isn't the greatest alibi for not trying to be a Mahomes clone considering that would have been in 2018. The year Mahomes won his first MVP. And again, it's not a bad thing to want to copy your idol's look when you're a little kid. That's normal as shit. What's not normal is doing all of that and then pretending like it's purely coincidence.
The only benefit of the doubt that I'll give him here is that we've all had those friends whose personalities and looks completely change depending on who they are spending the most time with. Maybe you have a buddy who studied abroad and then came back with an accent. Maybe you have a buddy who completely changed based on the girl he was currently dating. It's apparent to literally everybody else that they've changed, but they don't realize it in the time. So maybe we have a case of that going on here, but the poor kid would still benefit from having someone in his life to tell him to cut the shit and just admit it.