THE FEBRUARY NIGHT that ended Kareem Hunt's career with the Kansas City Chiefs -- and landed the NFL in yet another controversy involving an act of violence against a woman and captured by a security camera -- might have culminated with Hunt kicking a woman in the hall of a luxury hotel, but it began as something much more benign. It began as a traveling party.
A loose group of friends and acquaintances, some of whom Hunt has known for years and others he had just met, say they spent the evening of Feb.