Watch: Cincinnati mayor posts cringy trash talk video about Mahomes, then apologizes

Aftab Pureval, the mayor of Cincinnati, posted perhaps the cringiest trash talk video of all time on his Twitter yesterday.

If you are spending any amount of time on social media these days, particularly Twitter, you probably have noticed things are getting a bit contentious between Chiefs fans and Bengals fans. Hell, even Bills fans are in the mix because many of them are rightfully annoyed with comments made by Bengals defensive back Eli Apple that seemed to be mocking the Damar Hamlin situation.

The Apple stuff is to be expected. Everyone knows Apple is the worst trash talker in the NFL because nobody talks more trash without the ability to back any of it up. Eli Apple talking trash is like me deciding to talk mess about Warren Buffet by calling him poorer than me. I can say it all I want but I will just look like a clown.

Anyway, back to Cincinnati mayor Atfab Pureval. No need for setup here, just go ahead and watch the video for yourself.

What did Cincinnati mayor Atfab Purval say about Patrick Mahomes?

Big, big yikes.

See, this right here is a perfect example of how government doesn’t work. Notice how the camera pans up at the beginning? That means there was at least one other person in that room, proving that more than one person thought shooting and posting that video was a good idea.

Look, I am all for some good-natured trash talk coming from fans. If a hack like me wants to say Patrick Mahomes is somebody’s daddy on Twitter, nobody’s going to care. I’m a podcast host not the damn mayor of

a major city

Cincinnati.

There is a very clear “mayor playbook” for these situations when the hometown team is playing in a big professional sports game. The only office I’ve ever run for is vice president of my fraternity (I lost), and even I know what you’re supposed to do if you are a mayor in this situation. Hell, I bet even Guy Fieri, the Mayor of Flavor Town, wouldn’t post a video this cringe.

All Pureval had to do was reach out to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and offer to make a friendly wager. Mayors, including Lucas, do this all the time. The bet should have been that if the Bengals win, Lucas would buy Pureval’s office a giant platter of delicious Kansas City BBQ and if the Chiefs win, Pureval would buy Lucas and his team a giant, disgusting bowl of Skyline Chili and a month’s supply of Pepto Bismol to assist them with the inevitable fallout of eating that dog food the city of Cincinnati passes off as its signature dish.

Anyway, Pureval totally misread the room, and instead of making the old friendly “mayor bet,” he posted his “they gotta play us day” proclamation or whatever he called it and the reaction to the cringe was swift. It wasn’t just Chiefs fans dunking on Pureval. It was his own constituents.

As you would expect, Chiefs fans are all up in Purveal’s mentions. In fact, some of the biggest Chiefs fans in the country had a little something to say about Pureval’s tweet.

Brittany Mahomes reacts to Cincinnati Mayor’s tweet about Patrick Mahomes

That is right, Brittany Mahomes saw the tweet from Purveal and wasn’t thrilled about it. First, however, Mayor Q weighed in:

Then Brittany quote-tweeted Mayor Q, calling Purveal’s tweet “weak.”

Hell, even actor and noted Chiefs fan, Eric Stonestreet fired back at the Cincy mayor.

Mrs. Mahomes agreed:

lol.

Brittany finished things up by perfectly summing up what I think we are all thinking right now.

Indeed. I think at this point we are all ready for the game to get here.

Honestly though, now that his wife has seen the Cincy mayor’s tweet, it is likely that Patrick Mahomes himself has probably seen it. Mahomes clearly doesn’t need any extra motivation but if I was a Cincy fan,

I’d ask NASA to let me get on a rocket and fire it into the sun

and the Bengals lost, I’d be pretty annoyed at my mayor for contributing, even in a small way, to the bulletin board material inside Mahomes’ brain. Has a mayor ever been thrown out of office for a cringy sports tweet? Can Cincinnati make history?

As of this posting, Purveal hadn’t deleted his tweet but he did issue an apology to Bengals fans.

Incredible.

All of this is in good fun. A little extra bad blood just makes the sports viewing experience more fun.

I don’t know who is going to win on Sunday but relations are so poor right now between Who Dey Nation and the Chiefs Kingdom that God help the loser. The gloating that the winning fans will be doing for the next few weeks is going to be something.