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A Liquor Store Employee Tweeted About Patrick Mahomes’ Extension Before Adam Schefter Thanks To A Chiefs Employee Spilling The Beans

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When a loose-lipped Chiefs employee told a liquor store employee about the Patrick Mahomes deal, she tweeted it before Adam Schefter could.

SANTA CLARA, CA - OCTOBER 07: ESPN Monday Night Football Studio Analysts Adam Schefter during the NFL regular season football game between the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire)

ESPN’s Adam Schefter is easily on the 2020 Mount Rushmore of scoops. It’s Schefter, Woj, a small but growing bust of Shams Charania, and maybe Jeff Passan. But on this day, the news of Patrick Mahomes signing the richest sports contract ever was NOT a Schefter first. The first tweet speculating on a new deal came from a liquor store employee in Kansas City:

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The Kansas City Star shared some of the details on Katie Camlin’s scoop, including her followup victory laps to that deleted tweet:

Props to Katie Camlin for out-scooping one of the greats in Adam Schefter. It definitely helps her accuracy that there isn’t a closet lush in the Chiefs office but a good guess all the same. Here’s hoping that future scoops stroll right into her store’s front door…and that her employers respect her detective skills around a booze purchase. She showed she’s as loyal to her network as Adam Schefter is to ESPN:

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