The couple shared their love story in the first episode of the Netflix docuseries “Quarterback,” which was filmed during the 2022 NFL season and released in July 2023.
Patrick Mahomes shared that he met Brittany (whose maiden name was Matthews) when they were around seventh or eighth grade.
“She was a grade above me. I was like the best friend, in the friend zone forever,” he said. “I used to walk her to class and was trying to flirt.”
Then, when he was a sophomore and Brittany was a junior at Whitehouse High School, he got her a rose for Valentine’s Day — “I had a crush on her, but I was getting the rose as a joke, but kind of a quotation ‘joke,'” he added.
The series cut to Brittany’s retelling of the story as she said, “He thought it was a joke. I thought it was the cutest thing in the world. And then everyone at our lunch table started chanting like, ‘kiss him, kiss him’ and it made it really awkward cause we were ‘just friends.’ So yeah, that’s kind of what started it.”
Per social media anniversary posts, the pair became official on March 31, 2012, and have been together ever since.
Oh, and their first date was to Olive Garden.