Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce reacts to dropping a pass.

Travis Kelce will go down as one of the greatest tight ends to ever have played the game, a first ballot Hall of Famer, and on the Mount Rushmore of Kansas City Chiefs players.

He also might have had the play that ended Kansas City’s almost decade-long dynasty atop of the AFC on Sunday Night Football.

In one of the worst games of his career, Kelce was lost against one of the league’s top defenses with Houston. During the fourth quarter, when Patrick Mahomes and the offense needed his usual surefire hands the most, he bobbled and failed. Multiple times during the last stretch of the game did his close friend and quarterback looked to the tight end legend to make a play to extend a drive for him to ultimately drop the ball in a key moment.

No moment was bigger on Sunday for Kelce than the final drive of the game for the Chiefs, when Mahomes perfectly floated a ball to him only to watch it juggle through his hands like a circus act before getting intercepted by a Texans defender. The turnover gave Houston the ball in Chiefs territory, where they promptly turned a one-score game into a two-score game and brought Kansas City to the brink of elimination.

While his teammates on the sideline and his fiancée, Taylor Swift, were kind to the legend, the fans (and haters) on social media were not. Thousands of memes, posts, and edits were flung at the multi-time Super Bowl champion and top-ranked podcaster, relishing in the moment of watching one of the most consistent players in NFL history, possibly on his last legs.

Kelce and the Chiefs will have a shot at redemption next week at home against the Los Angeles Chargers, which has gone from a fight to win the AFC West to a means of survival for Kansas City.

This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: Travis Kelce Faces Online Backlash After Possible Season-Losing Drop

Reporting by Tyler Erzberger, Touchdown Wire / Touchdown Wire

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