The Brief: Playing on Thursday Night Football against the Denver Broncos, the Madden Curse struck the Kansas City Chiefs and QB Patrick Mahomes was injured. Twitter was quick with the reactions and memes to Mahomes injury news.
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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid opted to rush Patrick Mahomes on a QB sneak on 4th and 1. Mahomes went down with an injury and appeared to have his kneecap popped back into place on the field.
Patrick Mahomes was already dealing with a bum ankle and has slowed his torrid scoring pace as a result. Memers did not hold back in how they felt about the decision that lead to the injury and the flurry of Mahomes Injury reaction memes.
Patty Mahomes’ ankle has been messed up for weeks but screw it, QB sneak! pic.twitter.com/XZO8ssnqdT
— Kazeem Famuyide 🍎 (@Kazeem) October 18, 2019
It may not have been the best use of their most valuable player.
Why in the F! Would Andy Reid send his all-star QB Mahomes up the middle when he's already playing on a bad leg? Stupidest decision of the #NFL season. #KCvsDEN pic.twitter.com/gPDReriYNe
— J M (@Irish_Gangster) October 18, 2019
Maybe the Madden Curse is real?!
Madden Curse always wins… prayers up to Pat Mahomes pic.twitter.com/hs8mueDIap
— Wheels (@_DrewWheeler) October 18, 2019
If you think about it, the Madden Curse is actually 2 for 2 in the past two years.
Antonio Brown out of the league and now Mahomes with a torn ACL. The #MaddenCurse lives 👀 pic.twitter.com/xff0f7Komj
— J. Rosales (@Jeff_Rosales_) October 18, 2019
An injury to Mahomes and missing any amount of time would be detrimental to the team’s hopes.
Chiefs fans watching Patrick Mahomes lying on the field: pic.twitter.com/r2pZUByLel
— Ebenezer (@NOTSCROOGE) October 18, 2019
Fantasy football owners are left wondering what they did to upset the fantasy gods.
Fantasy owners who have Mahomes right now 🤣 #FantasyFootball #KCvsDEN pic.twitter.com/Dsr7ECl0F4
— survivorfan2014 (@survivorfan2014) October 18, 2019
What would a reaction post be without a SpongeBob meme?
The Chiefs with Mahomes vs the Chiefs without Mahomes #KCvsDEN #ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/wRwuEWfdkq
— Dakota Fuqua (@DakotaFuqua1997) October 18, 2019
We never have to find out, because we have two.
Live look at Chiefs fans when mahomes hurt his knee #TNF all serious hope he’s Ight pic.twitter.com/hs94VVNWsH
— Mutvials #WeAreMadden (@Mutvials) October 18, 2019
Prayers up for Patrick Mahomes.
Oh football gods!!!! PLEASE be gentle on #ChiefsKingdom Mahomes is a good man!! pic.twitter.com/hKXUrj7zQo
— Kyle Smith (@KUKyle329) October 18, 2019
The Chiefs need to protect their franchise QB!
It's time the Chiefs take @bykevinclark's advice. This should be Patrick Mahomes for the next couple weeks: pic.twitter.com/0mb1ctR7Qh
— Robert Mays (@robertmays) October 18, 2019
Fans would do anything to get Mahomes back on the field ASAP.
Me on my way to give Mahomes a new knee pic.twitter.com/1480FLSTSV
— Mavrick Alexander (@__MAVRICK) October 18, 2019
Seriously, multiple people are volunteering their own body parts to Patrick Mahomes.
me trying to get into the Chiefs locker room to donate my knees to Pat Mahomes pic.twitter.com/HmCVxRUvoW
— Jose Rodrighouls 👹 (@ByJoseRodriguez) October 18, 2019
Not one, not two…
Mahomes getting hurt has me like pic.twitter.com/ni38aGH9GJ
— Plouv (@nplouv15) October 18, 2019
…not three…
Please Andy, take my knee. Its never been injured. Please, we need Mahomes. pic.twitter.com/F1qunClKyG
— Devbot (@DevbotB) October 18, 2019
Chiefs fans will avenge their QB.
Chiefs fans to the player who landed on Mahomes #Chiefs #ChiefsKingdom #KCvsDEN pic.twitter.com/7AZ7WrPdoE
— elizabeth, abbey (@_hazelbite) October 18, 2019