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Garth Brooks Replies To Patrick Mahomes Mom In a Tweet

Garth Brooks played to a packed crowd at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Saturday (8/7) with a surprise opener, Martina McBride, who opened for Garth during his first heading…

Garth Brooks Replies To Patrick Mahomes Mom In a Tweet
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Garth Brooks played to a packed crowd at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Saturday (8/7) with a surprise opener, Martina McBride, who opened for Garth during his first heading tour.

Garth exclaimed after the show in reply to a tweet by Patrick Mahomes’ mom, Randi, who shared a photo of Garth and a young Patrick earlier in the day, tagging the Chiefs' quarterback, “How lucky you and The Chiefs are to get to play for that crowd every time you enter that stadium!! What I saw tonight was the true definition of home-field advantage. What a privilege, what an honor, what a blast that was!!”

Garth shared a ritual of him and his band saying, “You know, we do the handshake every night before we go out, the band and I. I say, ‘Look, man – whatever you got going on at home…whatever you got going on in your life…leave it outside these walls because for the next two hours there’s nothing you can do about it,’ right? ‘Let’s go out…let’s have fun…let’s enjoy ourselves.’ I think the crowd is getting that speech as well. You can see it in their faces!”

He added, “It’s got nothing to do with Garth Brooks. It’s got something to do with us being back where we belong, and that’s with each other. It’s made that two hours with those people – it’s made it fantastic! It really has.”

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.