Given how the last half decade has gone, there was good reason to believe that the Houston Texans, or any other hopeful contender in the AFC for that matter, would have to go through the Kansas City Chiefs to earn that conference crown this season. For the Texans, going through Kansas City comes up earlier in the calendar than you'd expect, because in Sunday night's game at Arrowhead Stadium, two teams desperate to return to the postseason will take the field, and only one will emerge feeling good about their playoff chances.
This will be the third time that the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs have faced each other in the last 13 months, and despite failing to come away with a win in either meeting, the Texans have put up enough of a fight that you could at least envision that a rivalry could develop between these two teams.