Kansas City vs Houston post season notes

Though Saturday’s earlier wild card round game between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs evokes memories of the 1962 AFL title game as it is one of the franchises (K.C.) vs the one of the cities (Houston) matched in that 2 overtime tilt, the upcoming game will be the first post-season game between the cities of Houston and K.C.

They met only months ago in a division series/quarterfinal in baseball with the eventual World champion K.C. Royals prevailing in the maximum 5 games.

In game 4, the Royals staged one of the most incredible comeback wins in post season history.

Add to that and make it just about the top of the list as far as greatest comebacks in a game facing elimination by an eventual world champion.

It was Houston that prevailed in the other post-season battle between the two cities.

Incredibly in the 1981 NBA semi-finals/Western Conference finals the opponents, Houston’s Rockets and the Kansas City Kings each had (40-42) regular season records.

After each team pulled upsets in the preliminary round and quarterfinals, the 5th ranked Kings were given home advantage over the sixth ranked Rockets.

However, it was the Rockets, led by Moses Malone, another great we lost in 2015, who prevailed in 5 games.