The past 48 hours have brought a lot of Patrick Mahomes news. As the second-year quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs delivered that city’s first Super Bowl victory in 50 years a thrilling 31-20 win over the San Francisco 49ers, he’s been on quite a roll.

• Named MVP of the Super Bowl, which meant delivering the now iconic, “I’m going to Disney World” line.
• Actually going to Disney World and taking a young Chiefs fan with him as part of Make-A-Wish.
• Bringing the Lombardi trophy back to the people of Kansas City in a parade scheduled for today.
• Making a former high school classmate look like Nostradamus.

That’s a lot of dreams coming true over a couple of days in the life of a 24-year-old.

I was getting ready to go to Tampa yesterday when my phone started buzzing. I ignored it for a while in order to get my shirts packed the way I like them, but the thing just kept buzzing. And buzzing. And buzzing.

Finally, I picked it up. Several different people had texted, all saying similar things.

Kobe.

Did you hear?

Oh my God. Kobe.