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The Kansas City Chiefs had the Texans right where they wanted them

Published Jan. 12, 2020 7:25 p.m. ET

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In the immortal words of one of our greatest scholars: Boy, that escalated quickly.

The Kansas City Chiefs took down the Houston Texans on Sunday in a game featuring an absolutely, unequivocally, completely RIDICULOUS first half, capped by an epic Kansas City comeback.

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216502546023321600

At first blush, everything was coming up Houston. The scoring opened with the Titans getting about as wide open as you'll ever see in the playoffs:

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216453703151935488

And that was just the start. The first two quarters saw everything from ludicrous fumbles to blocked punts:

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216455358551486464

The Texans led 21-0 in the first quarter after a muffed punt by the Chiefs, leaving the football world in collective shock:

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216460115252932608

But then, following a risky fake punt by the Texans, the Chiefs seemingly rose from the dead:

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216480655594254336

And in four minutes, Kansas City put 21 points up on the board:

https://twitter.com/Chiefs/status/1216469190992977922

A little special teams magic of their own helped the Chiefs turn the tide:

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216470547661385729

By the time Patrick Mahomes spurred the Chiefs to a 28-24 lead on four consecutive TD passes, this one felt all but over:

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1216475630012780544

As the points kept flowing, the Chiefs channeled a man who knows a little something about stomping a mudhole in his opponents:

 

https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1216493840502124544

In the end, Chiefs fans had plenty to gloat about:

To the point that Kansas City ran out of celebratory fireworks:

 

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The Chiefs will host the Tennessee Titans next week in the AFC Championship. The mood in Kansas City for now? Yeah, it's something like this:

https://twitter.com/Chiefs/status/1216506251850416128

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