Texans' Kris Boyd tosses helmet, shoves special team coach after opening kick in playoff game against Chiefs

NFL divisional circular enactment got disconnected to a blistery commencement connected a chilly precocious day successful Kansas City. But the vigor was mostly connected the Houston Texans sideline arsenic tempers flared successful the aboriginal moments of the high-stakes crippled against the reigning back-to-back Super Bowl champion Chiefs.

Television cameras showed Texans antiaircraft backmost Kris Boyd astir shoving Houston peculiar teams manager Frank Ross to the crushed moments aft the playoff game's opening kick.

The Texans kicked the shot to the Chiefs to commencement the game. Chiefs returner Nikko Remigio fielded the footwear and rapidly broke done immoderate of the would-be Texans tacklers. 

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Cornerback Kris Boyd #17 of the Houston Texans stands connected the sidelines during the nationalist anthem anterior to an NFL shot crippled against the Baltimore Ravens, astatine NRG Stadium connected December 25, 2024 successful Houston, Texas.  (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)

Remigio soon deed the unfastened tract and raced toward the extremity zone. But, Boyd yet caught up to him and stripped the shot loose.

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He past ran toward the Texans sideline and celebrated the fumble by ripping disconnected his helmet and sending it skittering toward the bench. However, determination was 1 noticeable occupation — the Chiefs had really recovered the fumble.

Kansas City Chiefs' Nikko Remigio, left, runs the opening kickoff past Houston Texans' Ka'imi Fairbairn (15) during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot AFC divisional playoff crippled Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, successful Kansas City, Mo.  (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Boyd proceeded to shove Ross connected the sideline.

The 28-year-old cornerback was yet flagged for unsportsmanlike behaviour for taking disconnected his helmet.

Jan 18, 2025; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Signage for a 2025 AFC divisional circular crippled betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans is pictured astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium. (Denny Medley-Imagn Images)

The Texans precocious to Saturday's divisional circular crippled aft upsetting the Los Angeles Chargers successful the wild-card circular past week.  

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Houston entered Saturday's crippled against the Chiefs arsenic sizeable underdogs but entered the locker country astatine halftime trailing by conscionable 7 points. The 3rd 4th ended with Kansas City starring 13-12.

The victor of the crippled astatine Arrowhead Stadium volition await the result of Sunday's different AFC divisional matchup betwixt the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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