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When you drive through Lubbock, Texas, the tight-knit college town of Texas Tech University, it won’t be long before you come across two vibrant, spray-painted murals of Patrick Mahomes .
These often-visited murals were painted by Joey Martinez , 45, a Lubbock native who’s a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan. Recently though, he’s had a big reason to root for the Chiefs — and it has everything to do with the Texas kid who has lit the NFL on fire since becoming Kansas City’s starting quarterback in 2018.
It started when Martinez, who was getting his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Texas Tech, bumped into Mahomes on his way to practice.
“I was like, ‘Patrick! Patrick! Dude you’re killing it. You’re going to kill it when you go pro,’” Martinez remembers telling Mahomes, who was the starting quarterback for the Red Raiders at the time. “I would’ve never guessed that he’d be doing as good as he’s been doing.”