Patrick Mahomes Sr. received permission from a Texas judge to travel outside the state for some upcoming Kansas City Chiefs games while serving probation. The former MLB pitcher had asked the court to let him travel to support his quarterback son, Patrick Mahomes. However, the judge did not approve every destination included in his request.
Patrick Mahomes Sr. gets probation exception to attend Chiefs games
Mahomes Sr., 56, filed a motion in Smith County, Texas, seeking permission to travel to Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Cincinnati for Chiefs games. The judge granted him permission to travel for approved Chiefs games in Kansas City but denied his request to attend a December game in Cincinnati, making the exception narrower than he had requested.
As per PEOPLE, Mahomes Sr. needed permission because of the probation he received following a 2024 driving while intoxicated case. In August 2024, he pleaded guilty to a DWI charge and agreed to five years of probation. His sentence also included one year of intense supervision.
Police had arrested Mahomes Sr. six months earlier in Tyler, Texas. According to the supplied source, authorities recorded his blood alcohol concentration at 0.23. It marked his third DWI charge.
His probation later led to another legal issue. Authorities arrested him in February 2026 over an alleged probation violation involving alcohol consumption. The Mahomes Sr. travel exception now allowed him to leave Texas for approved Chiefs games, though the judge kept limits on where he could travel.
His son previously discussed how his father’s legal problems affected him during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl run. “I think just knowing that it hurt me woke him up to know that like, you can’t keep doing the same things,” he said on the ESPN series Chiefs Kingdom.
Mahomes Sr. also acknowledged the impact his situation had on his son. “For him to have to answer questions about me was probably the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever been through in my life,” he said. The court’s latest decision gave Mahomes Sr. some flexibility to attend Chiefs games while his probation remained in effect.
