Moments after reaching another Super Bowl, Travis Kelce defended the tears in the Kansas City Chiefs wardrobe while paying tribute to his teammate Kareem Hunt.
The Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills 32-29 in Arrowhead on Sunday night to get to the Super Bowl in New Orleans on February 9 against Philadelphia Eagles. And for the Hunt corridor, that game will represent a story of redemption.
First he reached the stardom with the Chiefs in 2017, running for a high league of 1,327 yards and eight touchdowns in his rookie year after being recruited from Toledo. But a year later, his career seemed to be in ruins after a video of him arose assaulting a woman and the bosses released him.
At the end of November 2018, images arose that showed Hunt pushing a woman to the ground and kicking her in the hall of a Cleveland hotel. The bosses got rid of him, but no positions were presented when the woman stopped cooperating with the authorities.
He returned to the NFL with the Cleveland Browns in 2019 before Andy Reid gave him a second chance in Kansas City last September after Isiah Pacheco fractured his leg in week 2.
“That is my family right there, man, I love that boy until death,” Kelce Hunt said in an interview Darren Smith.
Travis Kelce paid an emotional tribute to Kareem Hunt when the chiefs made another Super Bowl
Hunt scored a touchdown on the way to his team's close victory over the Buffalo Bills
'I have been his greatest defender since all that tried to take him back here and I tell you what man, he drowns me just thinking about it.
'I am happy as a man from hell, he has traveled a long way. And he is really leading our team with his mentality and his style of play and I love playing with him, man.
Hunt was outstanding for Chiefs on Sunday night, assuming much of the workload with 17 haules for 64 yards and a touchdown.
At the time of Hunt's return to the Chiefs, Chief coach Andy Reid said: 'He did a good job in Cleveland and we talked to people there, and there were no problems there.
'We feel good when bringing it back, now he is 29 years old.
It seems that some have grown. I think people deserve a second chance if they have done something to work in the first part.
Mohomes, who was in the same kind of draft as Hunt, said about his return: 'At the end of the day, I only support me that the person becomes a better and better person, and football is secondary, but I am I I am glad to have it back and in the building.
'Everyone has friends who make mistakes, and obviously some are bigger than others, but at the same time you want to improve the person and want to see them take the right steps to become a better person for themselves, their family and the family. rest of society.
Patrick Mahomes celebrates with Hunt after scoring a touchdown for chiefs on Sunday
Now, Hunt and his team can enter history books in February if the Chiefs become the first team in the Age of the Super Bowl to win three consecutive titles.
He will be the first Super Bowl of his Hunt career, and told Smith: 'Man, I feel great, revived.
“I have always tried to get to the Super Bowl, it has been my dream since I was a small child and now it is finally here.”