Hamilton: A Chiefs Super Bowl three-peat would be a win for all the Dad Bods out there

Patrick Mahomes has become a household name by playing an unrelatable style of football with a very relatable physique.

The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, to his credit, has embraced being labeled with a Dad Bod.

Likewise for plenty of other men across the country who proudly strut around shirtless with bodies that look like slowly melting ice cream.

Mackenzie Adams, meanwhile, practices law in Myrtle Beach.

She was a sophomore at Clemson when she first threw the term Dad Bod out for public consumption via crowdsourced website The Odyssey.

A doomed fight for ownership of the phrase ended up guiding her to law school.

Adams is famous-not-famous kind of the way Mahomes looks like one of those in-shape, out-of-shape guys from the fast-talking, black-and-white movies of the 1930s .

He just doesnt have his belt fastened halfway up his torso.

He's embraced it and I appreciate it and salute him for it, Adams, whose maiden name in college was Mackenzie Pearson, said.

I think he gets the essence of it.

Him embracing it is pretty fun to watch, its pretty cool.

A global audience will watch the quintessential Dad Bod chase history tonight in Super Bowl LIX.

So, forget about the prop bets.

The financially prudent non-football activity during the game will be monitoring how often Dad Bod is referenced on social media.

Then again, we can set an over/under on that, too.

Mahomes could possibly lead the Chiefs to an unprecedented third-straight Super Bowl championship .

Its difficult to properly position the magnitude of the accomplishment given the games 58-year history and the NFLs place in American culture.

The best way to frame it is to compare winning three straight Super Bowls to, well, winning three straight Super Bowls.

If you know, you know.

Even casual-at-best football fans realize Mahomes and the Chiefs have a shot at something significant; the kind of accomplishment that eclipses sports and resonates forever.

Mahomes, manning the glamour position, would be the face of it all .

And the body.

Mahomes is athletic without really looking athletic.

He insists his undefined body is a key to the way he plays quarterback and an increasing number of fitness experts are agreeing.

But we wont delve into the science that supports his claim and their assertions.

Its a lot of business about this axis working in conjunction with that axis while rotating at such and such an angle, etc., etc.

Yeah, Vince Lombardi and Bill Walsh were expert talent evaluators despite not understanding kinesiology.

Lets just skip it.

All we need is a photo of a shirtless Mahomes next to a printout of his stats, with his Super Bowl rings serving as paperweights.

That visual trumps six-pack abs and off-the-chart gym metrics.

Results are results no matter how the source looks.

Video also doesnt lie and theres plenty showing Mahomes doing otherworldly things.

And doing it while hes built like your mailman.

We actually might be living in a golden age for the Dad Bod in sports.

Mahomes playoff heroics were complimented by the headline-grabbing NBA trade of Luka Doncic from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Doncics game is comparable to Mahomes, too, as it's a creative, free-flowing style that reimagines possibilities in his sport.

One big difference is at least Mahomes has a full football uniform to streamline his Dad Bod; NBA unis leave Doncic running up and down the court in all his undefined glory.

But, as with Mahomes, Docic isnt shy about it.

It is what it is to the point of being normal.

Along with that, the use of Dad Bod has become increasingly a part of our vernacular since Adams first included it in a web essay 10 years ago.

She doesnt maintain to have solely come up with the phrase, though she can claim to be the first to use it in print.

Merriam-Webster credited her when it added Dad Bod to the dictionary four years ago (physique regarded as typical of an average father ...

one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular).

Wikipedia cites her as the first to use it in her essay Why Girls Love the Dad Bod based on chatter with her sorority sisters.

The cruel twist is she was unable to claim legal ownership of her own work shed written it and sold it to someone else (Adams said the Odyssey paid her $1,000).

At least the time spent in a whole room of lawyers was her first exposure to the legal system and pointed her in a career direction.

And if her time as an attorney has taught her anything, its how to deal with being tied to something she doesnt own.

That means responding whenever someone wants to discuss the origins of the phrase that sometimes has her referred to as the Dad Bod Girl.

I just figure it's a publicly owned thing, I might as well treat it as such, Adams said.

But I always tell people I was famous for about five minutes and I did not enjoy it.

Five minutes of fame was not for me.

But its a fun anecdote in life.

That's a good way to put it.

Her perspective is as refreshing as the idea of an all-time great athlete being a grown-up version of the kid who wore husky jeans.

And thoughts of that kid, for so many, are very relatable..

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