For Pete’s Sake

Chiefs fans revel in easy victory over the Texans in season opener

By Pete Grathoff

Updated September 10, 2020 10:42 PM

Stop if you’ve heard this before: the Texans took a lead into the second quarter of a game against the Chiefs only to get blown out.

It wasn’t quite as shocking as the AFC Divisional playoff game in January. But the Chiefs trailed 7-0 after the first quarter of Thursday night’s season opener but took over after that and won easily, 34-20.

At one point, the Chiefs had outscored Houston 82-14 over the two games.

Chiefs fans loved the start to the 2020 season, which has the unofficial motto of “Run It Back.” Here’s what they said about Thursday’s game:

Never a doubt. 1-0 #RunItBack #ChiefsKingdom
— Anthony Trafficante (@AntTraff) September 11, 2020

Is it just me or did that just seem really easy and we never had to get out of second gear? #ChiefsKingdom
— Dave, Davey, David (@DavidColgan1) September 11, 2020

How about that Chiefs defense?! They were awesome tonight! #NFLKickoff #RunItBack pic.twitter.com/EnaTlUo2oo
— Matt Fischer (@themattfischer) September 11, 2020

1-0 Baby!#RunItBack pic.twitter.com/jNmZjS4kEt
— Eric M. Schroer (@EricMSchroer) September 11, 2020

So we had TDs from Kelce, Watkins, CEH, Hill. FGs from Butker. Sack from Chris Jones. Frank Clark chasing down Watson like a mad man. Oh and a rookie with an INT. GREAT FREAKIN WORK YALL!!!!!! #ChiefsKingdom
— Will Cooper (@tallestCooper6) September 11, 2020

Good win @chiefs offense looks #ChiefsKingdom
— Portista Bruno (@xbrunaldo7x) September 11, 2020

#RunItBackTour is off to a great start. So happy to have this little bit of normalcy back. #ChiefsKingdom
— Taylor Pender (@tpender11) September 11, 2020

1-0 #ChiefsKingdom #RunItBack pic.twitter.com/uZW1SXUrzM
— Evan (@MahomesToClyde) September 11, 2020

We win!! Woohoo! #ChiefsKingdom #RunItBack pic.twitter.com/3KguOWiXt0
— justdone (@justsportsgirl) September 11, 2020

Great performance. The defense was extremely impressive. This team is about to be rolling on all cylinders once again. #ChiefsKingdom #RunItBack
— Andrew Curtis (@AndrewCurtis24) September 11, 2020

Chiefs kingdom babyyyy!!! #ChiefsKingdom let’s go boyzzz️
— K a l e i (@PrincessKalei__) September 11, 2020

#Chiefs 1-0. #RunItBack Tour off to a good start.
— Dylan Sherwood (@DSherwoodSJ) September 11, 2020

34-20, thats my Chiefs! #KCChiefs #ChiefsKingdom
— Johnathan Irwin (@A2ZJIRWINKO) September 11, 2020

Man it’s so good to see the chiefs play football again #RunItBack
— Tahir BM (@taheer_babikir) September 11, 2020

Great win @Chiefs #RunItBack pic.twitter.com/IMW2ymzKFg
— x TaeTooSyck x (@TaeTooSyck) September 11, 2020

#Chiefs 1-0. #RunItBack Tour off to a good start.
— Dylan Sherwood (@DSherwoodSJ) September 11, 2020

Bro. If you don’t Ryde with Clyde. You can’t ride with me. #ChiefsKingdom #chiefsvstexans #Chiefs
— Glovebox Burrito (@GloveboxB) September 11, 2020

road to super bowl #RunItBack https://t.co/KFrBNjNVp9
— ryan (@__rcg) September 11, 2020

This story was originally published September 10, 2020 at 10:29 PM.

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