Patrick Mahomes leads Chiefs to AFC title game after daughter's birth as Caitlin Clark, Taylor Swift cheer

The Kansas City Chiefs are conscionable 2 wins distant from becoming the archetypal squad successful NFL past to triumph 3 consecutive Super Bowls. And their entourage of personage fans got a big-ticket summation Saturday.

Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes threw for 177 yards and a touchdown successful a 23-12 triumph implicit the Houston Texans successful the divisional circular to beforehand to the AFC title crippled for the seventh consecutive season.

Mahomes took the tract conscionable days aft welcoming his 3rd child, girl Golden Raye, who was calved Jan. 12. 

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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs throws a touchdown walk to Travis Kelce during the 4th fourth of an AFC divisional playoff crippled astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium Jan. 18, 2025, successful Kansas City, Mo.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce caught 7 passes for 117 yards and a touchdwon with woman Taylor Swift watching alongside WNBA prima Caitlin Clark. 

The Chiefs are the 4th squad successful NFL past to travel back-to-back Super Bowl wins by advancing to a league rubric game, and the 3 erstwhile teams lost. The Chiefs volition effort to alteration that inclination astatine Arrowhead Stadium adjacent play against the Bills oregon Ravens, who play Sunday successful Buffalo for a changeable astatine dethroning the defending champs.

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Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift talks with Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever during the 2nd fractional of an AFC divisional playoff crippled betwixt the Houston Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium Jan. 18, 2025, successful Kansas City, Mo.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Mahomes improved 16-3 successful the playoffs, tying Joe Montana for the second-most wins successful NFL playoff past down Tom Brady. Mahomes is 7-0 successful the divisional circular and helped Andy Reid go the 4th NFL manager with 300 vocation wins.

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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with fans aft defeating the Houston Texans successful an AFC divisional playoff crippled astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium Jan. 18, 2025, successful Kansas City, Mo.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

The Texans (11-8) inactive person ne'er won successful six divisional games. They person mislaid to Kansas City twice.

Houston backmost C.J. Stroud threw for 245 yards but was sacked 8 times. Joe Mixon, who had been questionable to play with an ankle injury, caught a mates of passes portion moving for 88 yards and a touchdown.

Texans kicker Kai’imi Fairbairn missed a 55-yard tract extremity effort and an extra-point effort and had different tract extremity effort blocked with 1:46 left, which would person kept Houston’s comeback hopes live by making it a one-possession game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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