Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Patrick and Brittany Mahomes opened up about how the two met and wound up getting together, becoming high school sweethearts and later husband and wife.
In the first episode of the Netflix series "Quarterback," the Kansas City Chiefs’ star quarterback said he and Brittany met in seventh and eighth grade.
Patrick said Brittany was a grade above him but he was stuck in the "friend zone." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes kisses Brittany Matthews before the AFC Championship Game against the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. (Jay Biggerstaff-USA Today Sports) "I was like the best friend, in the friend zone forever," he said. "I used to walk her to class and was trying to flirt.
When I was a sophomore in high school, and she was a junior, I actually got her a rose and I was kinda, like, I had a crush on her.