Overview
- Adidas posted a Thanksgiving-themed Instagram video showing Mahomes dousing a turkey leg with ketchup while intoning, “Thanksgiving is a time to eat.”
- Comments on Instagram and X ranged from jokes to disgust, with many questioning the choice of ketchup over gravy and some tying the bit to game-day banter.
- Mahomes has previously said he puts ketchup on foods including mac and cheese and steak, and he once described eating ketchup sandwiches as a kid.
- The ad ran in the lead-up to the Chiefs’ Thanksgiving matchup at AT&T Stadium, which Kansas City lost to the Cowboys 31–28, per The Sporting News.
- One outlet reported an Adidas multi-year extension with Mahomes and plans for a golf line, a claim not broadly corroborated in the sampled coverage.