Kareem Hunt stupidly calls out Chiefs after Browns Wild Card win (Video)

Kareem Hunt celebrated the Cleveland Browns’ Wild Card win by calling out the Kansas City Chiefs. 

The Cleveland Browns were able to celebrate their first playoff victory since 1994 for about ten minutes before it all came crashing down.

Cleveland pulled off a stunning upset over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night, trouncing their division rivals and forcing JuJu Smith-Schuster to eat his words. But in celebrating that achievement, Browns running back Kareem Hunt did exactly what Smith-Schuster was getting trolled for, but somehow made it even worse.

In the Browns locker room, Hunt went live on Instagram and proceeded to call out the Kansas City Chiefs. That’s who Cleveland will be playing next week, but it also happens to be the team that Hunt used to play for.

Hunt went out of his way to deem next week’s game “personal”.

Kareem Hunt calls out Kansas City Chiefs

This is monumentally stupid on a number of different levels.

For starters, Hunt and the Browns were using the celebratory moment to dance on the grave of the Steelers — and specifically Smith-Schuster — for giving them bulletin board motivation. So in trolling someone for talking trash out of turn, Hunt talked trash and gave a team bulletin board material.

The Chiefs, mind you, are not a team that needs any extra motivation to kick someone’s ass.

Then there’s the matter of why Hunt is talking trash in the first place. The running back was released by the Chiefs during the 2018 season not for performance but because of off-field behavior. Kansas City cut Hunt, and the NFL suspended him indefinitely, after footage of him violently assaulting a woman in a Cleveland hotel surfaced.

At the time, Hunt gave a hollow and clunky apology on ESPN that was rather transparent in its purpose. It didn’t work, so he disappeared for a while before the Browns gave him a second chance, one he seems to be taking full advantage of.

But Hunt deeming the Chiefs cutting him after he assaulted a woman ‘personal’ is not the revenge narrative he thinks it is. The Chiefs cut him after the team found out he lied to them about the incident prior to the footage being released. No one gave up on Hunt, in fact it appeared the Chiefs were bending over backwards to keep him, but he forced hands and burned bridges. This isn’t Jamaal Charles or Justin Houston coming back to Arrowhead — fan favorites with an actual ax to grind after being released — so it’s disingenuous to make it out as such.

That says it all right there.

The Browns are still a fun team, you should still root for them, and their Cinderella run isn’t tainted by one comment. But Hunt shook the hornet’s nest in more than one way, which won’t help an already steep uphill battle that awaits in Kansas City next Sunday.