'I'm deleting all his music out of my Apple Music and giving him 1-star reviews'
The so-called “Drake Curse” wasn’t enough to stop Patrick Mahomes Sunday night as he and the Kansas City Chiefs manged to hang on to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in the AFC Championship Game after a last-minute field goal.
The Hotline Bling hitmaker took home over $2 million after plunking down $1.1 million on Mahomes and the Chiefs to book another trip to the Super Bowl with a win over Cincy.
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His wager had Chiefs fans worried, as his support tends to backfire against the teams he cheers for.
“Drake put $1 million on the Chiefs to win,” one member of Chiefs Nation tweeted. “Lord, please be with us during this game.”
“If Drake’s bet costs the Chiefs the game, I’m deleting all his music out of my Apple Music and giving him 1-star reviews on every song all the way back to Best I Ever Had,” another threatened.
This isn’t the first time the rapper, who Forbes estimated was worth $150 million in 2019, scored a massive payday betting against the Bengals. Drake won over $1 million after the Rams defeated the Bengals in last year’s Super Bowl, and padded his wallet with $300,000 in profit after his pal, Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., scored a touchdown.
But if the Chiefs were immune to the hex, the 49ers were not after the Grammy winner placed an $850,000 bet on San Francisco to win.
In the day’s earlier NFC title game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the 49ers were trounced 31-7 by the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Talk of a “Curse” has been bubbling for years after the music star was blamed for Serena Williams’ loss at the 2015 U.S. Open, but it took a strong foothold in 2019 when Drake showed up during Game 4 of the NHL playoffs between Toronto and the Boston Bruins in Maple Leafs gear and guess what? The Leafs lost 6-4.
Then-Leafs coach Mike Babcock weighed in on talk of a curse post-game. “I’ve heard lots of things since I’ve come here, but that’s one of the craziest things,” Babcock said when asked his thoughts on the curse. “The game is played on the ice by us. There’s no curse whatsoever.”
That same year, after Drake took a photo with Paris Saint-Germain’s Layvin Kurzawa, he was blamed for the soccer club’s 5-1 loss to Lille. As a result, Italy’s AS Roma banned its players from taking selfies with the Juno winner until after its season ended.
During the NCAA football playoffs in 2019, Drake publicly backed the University of Alabama and the team was throttled 44-16 by the Clemson Tigers.
Prior to that, he was in the stands cheering for Serena Williams at the U.S. Open in 2015 when she was beaten by an unranked player. And when he trumpeted Conor McGregor, the MMA fighter was smashed by Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 236.
More recently, Drake bet on pal Kevin Durant’s Brooklyn Nets to beat the Boston Celtics in the first round of the NBA playoffs (they were swept after losing 116–112 in Game 4). Last spring, he plunked down $427,000 on MMA fighter Justin “The Highlight” Gaethje to beat Charles Oliveira at UFC 274 (Gaethje lost).
After he lost $275,000 on Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272 in March, his opponent Colby Covington trolled the singer for his loss. “Let’s talk about all the money Drake lost tonight,” Covington said. “He needs to go back to selling those s—– albums to get back the money.”
In December, Drake lost $1 million by gambling Argentina would beat France in the 2022 World Cup final.
Even though Argentina prevailed, Drizzy “bet in a market where extra time isn’t counted and the result is determined based on the score after 90 minutes of play,” according to Vulture.
The match was tied 2-2 and went into extra time before the anticipated finale was decided by a shootout, with Argentina winning 4-2 on penalties.
Stake — the crypto currency betting platform the God’s Plan singer uses — plugged Drake’s gamble on Twitter, even making a joke about the so-called “Drake Curse.”
But after the tilt went into extra time, Stake shared a follow-up tweet indicating Drake wasn’t getting paid. “Unfortunately both teams have been unable to be separated in regulation time so we have no winners in this competition.”
Had Drake’s bet, which he shared in a now-deleted Instagram post, paid off, Billboard’s Artist of the Decade would have pocketed $2.75 million — a profit of $1.75 million.
mdaniell@postmedia.com