Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football star seek to bury the hatchet

Kansas City's quarterback and USA men's flag football star Darrell Housh' Doucette ended up in a social media furor over the new Olympic sport for the LA Games

The NFL superstar Patrick Mahomes and USA men's flag-football quarterback Darrell Housh" Doucette Jr have sought to bury the hatchet after being pitted against each other in a social media storm over the summer.

Both men are in New Orleans as the city prepares for Sunday's Super Bowl, where Mahomes will lead the Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles, and the issue has surfaced again. Doucette went viral in August after he told the Guardian that it was disrespectful" for the public to assume that Mahomes and fellow NFL signal-callers like Joe Burrow and the Eagles' Jalen Hurts automatically assume" they would be able to oust him from his spot on USA's flag-football team's quarterback ahead of the sport's Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028.