Sean McVay and Kliff Kingsbury just might be good friends, but they are also rivals now who have one goal in bringing their respective teams a Super Bowl trophy.
The two young coaches are set to battle it out for an NFC West title in 2019.
That’s months away from happening, but McVay is playing mind games right now.
The Los Angeles Rams head coach recently welcomed Kingsbury to the NFL when the two had dinner together, along with Patrick Mahomes.
In the midst of their conversation was a cruel prank that was about to begin. He tricked Kingsbury into thinking he was going to lose draft picks, specifically the No. 1 overall pick, because of the tampering rules, according to the the hilarious story he told on the Adam Schefter Podcast.
“We have a mutual friend that I put his name in my phone as Roger Goodell,” McVay explained. “I had this friend send me a text saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re at dinner with Kingsbury and Mahomes. You know better than this. This is tampering. You’re both losing picks.’
“I showed Kliff the text and he saw a ghost. I said, ‘You better call (Cardinals GM) Steve Keim right away.’ He said, ‘I thought I was going to lose the No. 1 pick.’
McVay revealed he could’ve let the joke play out much longer than it did:
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“We couldn’t let it go too long, but it was pretty good. We got him good,” McVay said. “I was talking to him about that yesterday when I saw him. I’m pretty proud of that one.”
