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On the morning of Nov. 1, many parents come to grips with the enormity of that haul of candy their children got on Halloween night. Trying to keep the kids from eating too much candy is one of the things that connects us all. That includes the best player in the most popular sports league in the United States: Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, the KC Current co-owner, went trick-or-treating with their kids on Halloween night. Their 3-year-old daughter, Sterling, was a flamingo and 1-year-old son Bronze dressed as a lion. Brittany, who is pregnant, had a perfect choice of costume: a kangaroo. Patrick was a zookeeper.

While doing his weekly interview on 96.5 The Fan, Mahomes said Sterling was the driving force behind the costume choices.

Sterling really wanted to be a flamingo. So we have a whole type of flamingo and zoo animals type of thing going on,” Mahomes said. “That’s her favorite animal, I guess. I guess the Flamingo is an animal, and so we’re doing that, and we’ll go around trick or treat a little bit and hopefully get a lot of good candy and not let Sterling and Bronze eat too much of it.” Mahomes said Bronze is more into sweets and he possesses an uncanny knack for candy.

My son, I don’t know how he can just like sense it, even if he hasn’t had any type of sweet before, the moment he smells it, he’s like, ‘I like that,’” Mahomes said. “So I gotta try to keep him from getting all the candies and the desserts or whatever he gets for Halloween.“