Tom Brady Talks Importance of Patrick Mahomes Not Losing Super Bowl to Avoid Trolling

Tom Brady won seven Super Bowls during his legendary career, but even that isn't enough to avoid trolling for the three he lost.

And he believes preventing the feelings from coming with a Super Bowl loss is another pressure point for Patrick Mahomes as the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback pursues his fourth career Lombardi Trophy in Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Brady explained his thought process during a Saturday discussion with Colin Cowherd (19:25 mark) and joked about some of the trolling he still faces from his Super Bowl losses:

"When you lose this game, this is on your resume forever. A loss in the Super Bowl matters more than any loss that you're ever going to be a part of. When I go to Philly and they go 'Philly Special, Philly Special," and I'm at the Knicks game with my son and Spike Lee, I throw him a ball, and he puts the ball up and catches it on his head like the helmet catch, I mean that was 17 years ago and I'm still living that thing down.

"No one remembers the loss I had to Peyton in the 2015 Championship Game. Noone talks about the 2013 loss to Denver in the Championship Game. Noone talks about the loss to the Ravens in the 2012 AFC Championship Game. They all tell me about the losses in the Super Bowls, though.

"So I think the challenging thing, if you look at Patrick for example, you want to win this game if you're Patrick. Because if you don't, you're 3-2 in Super Bowls, and it's not a great feeling. So there is a lot of pressure, certainly from my standpoint as I got older and I realized the enormity of this game and how important it is to actually win this game."

It likely doesn't help Brady that some of his Super Bowl losses are so memorable. Two of the losses came to Eli Manning and the New York Giants, including in the 2007 season when the New England Patriots were one win away from completing an undefeated campaign but failed to do so, in part, because of David Tyree's famous helmet catch.

And the one to the Eagles to end the 2017 season was a back-and-forth thriller with Nick Foles getting the last laugh in a 41-33 win that included him catching a touchdown on the Philly Special trick play.

As for Mahomes, he is 3-1 in Super Bowls with that one loss coming against Brady.

Brady is best known for his success on the Patriots, but he led the Buccaneers to the Super Bowl title over Mahomes' Chiefs to end the 2020 campaign. Tampa Bay largely cruised to a 31-9 victory, which is a head-to-head result that could be magnified even further in the coming years as Mahomes plays himself into conversations about the greatest of all-time.

Brady is still largely seen as the GOAT for now, but Mahomes is just 29 years old and will be more than halfway to the legend's Super Bowl title total if he can defeat the Eagles on Sunday.

Yet a loss could haunt him forever if those same Philadelphia fans who still taunt Brady for Super Bowl LII have anything to say about it.