‘A feeling in Arrowhead’ – Patrick Mahomes makes thoughts clear on Chiefs’ home amid $3bn relocation plans

The Kansas City Chiefs’ playoff hopes are still hanging by a thread after picking up a crucial 23-20 OT win against the Indianapolis Colts at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

Spearheaded by franchise quarterback Patrick Mahomes who activated ‘Playoff Pat’ mode as he threw 29-of-46 for 352 passing yards – albeit with an interception – and eradicating an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, the Chiefs avoided falling to below .500.

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Instead, they now sit 6-5 on the 2025 NFL season, though they trail both the Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) and the Denver Broncos (9-2) in the AFC West standings.

Following the victory over the Colts, Mahomes spoke out about the victory, and praised the advantage of the home fans who instilled fear in their opponents with their voices at what is considered the loudest outdoor stadium in the world.

“This is exactly what we needed,” Mahomes said. “To win against a really good football team and the game’s not going your way, you could have folded in that situation, and kind of the rest of the season, but guys responded and found a way to win…”

“Obviously, the energy’s not good, but I thought it was really cool to not only see our defense stand tall in that moment … then there was like a feeling that you had in Arrowhead.

“You could see the fans were behind us. They didn’t hang their heads because there was a fumble [from Kareem Hunt].

“They said, ‘We’re going to be there with y’all’ — through the end, through this all. I thought that was really cool.”

The Chiefs went a whopping 12-0 in one-score games on their route to their fifth Super Bowl appearance, and third straight, in six seasons in 2024.

However, this season has been a complete 180 reverse, with Kansas City having gone 0-5 in one-possession games prior to their narrow victory over Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor and co, who have now fallen to 8-3 on the year.

“We’ve been in these games,” Mahomes added. “All five of our losses felt like these games where there’s plays here and there that we didn’t make. We could have won all of them and we didn’t.

“Until you prove it, you can talk about it all day, but until you prove it’s not going to happen. We had to prove that we can win a game like this.”

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To renovate or relocate? That is the question

After their trip to Texas for their blockbuster Thanksgiving clash against the Dallas Cowboys, Andy Reid‘s men will have two straight games playing in front of the Chiefs faithful at Arrowhead.

Amid the franchise weighing up the possibility of crossing state borders from Missouri to set up shop in Kansas with plans for a new $3 billion stadium, there are also proposals being drawn up that would see Arrowhead – their home since 1972 – undergo transformational renovations.

This comes as Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has proposed the idea of the Chiefs installing a retractable roof on their current stomping ground, though it would set the team back far more capital, with renovation costs soaring from an estimated $1.15 billion to beyond the $2 billion mark.

The Chiefs have yet to formally announce the direction that they will take as it pertains to whether to renovate or relocate entirely, but a confirmation announcement is expected by either the end of this year or in early 2026.

The Chiefs’ final home game of the season will come in Week 17 in a huge divisional matchup versus the current AFC West leaders Broncos, with Bo Nix and Sean Payton giving their division rivals real trouble.

By then, there really could be all to play for with the Chiefs’ decade-long streak of having made the postseason – something Mahomes has never missed in his NFL career – at real risk of coming to an end.

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