Tyreek Hill and his wife Keeta Vaccaro escaped to TOKYO to avoid watching the Chiefs win the Super Bowl after he left Kansas City… but Dolphins WR insists he was happy for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Co
Tyreek Hill has revealed how he and his wife Keeta Vaccaro flew to Tokyo to escape the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory a year after leaving Kansas City.
Hill spent half a decade with the Chiefs before joining the Miami Dolphins in 2022, but he watched Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce lead his former team to back-to-back Vince Lombardi Trophies.
The wide receiver admitted that it was “tough” to see the Chiefs beat the Eagles at the end of the 2022 season and that “part of him” wondered what his legacy would have been if he had stayed in Kansas City.
He also talked about his efforts to avoid Super Bowl LVII — and why he took a different approach for the Chiefs’ win over the 49ers a year later.
“The first year they won the award, me and my wife went to Tokyo because it was quite difficult for me,” Hill told the newspaper. MILLION DOLLAZ VALUE OF GAME podcast.
Tyreek Hill has revealed how he flew to Tokyo to escape the Chiefs’ 2022 Super Bowl win
Hill and his wife Keeta Vaccaro visited Japan because Hill ‘didn’t want to watch no game’
Hill spent half a decade with the Chiefs before joining the Miami Dolphins in 2022
‘I don’t want to watch a match. I don’t want to see any of it. She said, “Honey, let’s just go to Tokyo. Let’s get away and do our thing.”
“So we went to Tokyo the first year. And when they won, I contacted all the guys. I was like, ‘Man, I’m happy for all of you. Proud of you.'”
“The second year, this year when they won, I watched the whole game. I was like, “Y’all, we gotta win this thing.”
Hill was in Las Vegas before Super Bowl LVIII — despite the Dolphins losing to the Chiefs in the NFL playoffs.
‘I’m cool now. But the first year it was kind of hard to get over the hump to see the guys out there doing their thing,” Hill added.
Patrick Mahomes and Co secured back-to-back Super Bowls with a win in Las Vegas
Hill also revealed that Miami head coach Mike McDaniel called him up after the team’s wild-card playoff loss to Kansas City.
The 30-year-old wideout had five catches for 62 yards and a touchdown in the 26-7 rout of Miami in January, but he faced the wrath of McDaniel after then-Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed him on one play against the hit the ground.
Hill, recalling McDaniel’s anger at the time, said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Million Dollaz Worth of Game” podcast: “The play against Sneed. The Chiefs, everyone sees this game against the Chiefs. When the bastard knocked me to the ground? He called me out.
“He said, ‘Reek, man, you’re supposed to be the best damn player in the damn league, and you’ve got this guy putting his hands all over you like that. What are we paying you all this money for?”