Las Vegas Raiders fans needled the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs this week.
A Raiders fan dressed up a Kermit doll to look like K.C. quarterback Patrick Mahomes -- whose voice has been compared to that of the famous Muppets character. A video of rookie safety Trey Taylor at training camp on Thursday joking with the puppet went viral on social media before being deleted -- but not before Kansas City fans noticed.
Mahomes was asked about the video on Friday.
"Yeah, I mean, it's still early in the year. Stuff like that happens," he said. "It'll get handled when it gets handled."
K.C. heads to Vegas in Week 8 to play the Raiders before hosting their division rival on Black Friday (Nov. 29).
Mahomes said he wasn't sent the video and, most of the time, he's able to just focus on his job.
"No, not really, honestly. Everybody kinda just lets me play. I mean, they know how I am," he said. "They don't need to send me anything to keep me motivated."
Mahomes has tortured the Raiders since taking the league by storm in 2018, going 10-2 against the division rivals with 30 touchdowns to four interceptions and throwing for 3,573 yards in those 12 tilts.
The Raiders, however, are 1-0 against Mahomes and the Chiefs in their last one game (20-14 on Christmas Day 2023).
Las Vegas head coach Antonio Pierce downplayed the incident on Friday.
"We addressed it as a team yesterday and we nipped it in the bud. It's over with," the coach said.
It's over until it gets brought up again ahead of their Week 8 tilt.
