By the night of December 8, 2016, Tyreek Hill’s disturbingly violent past had already been forgiven and nearly forgotten, swept under the rug by a Kansas City fan base enamored with his electric play.
Only eight months earlier, the Chiefs’ drafting of Hill was met with a mix of anger and frustrated confusion by the very same fans. The idea of adding a man who punched and choked Crystal Espinal, his then-girlfriend who was pregnant at the time, left fans feeling, at minimum, a little gross with many disgusted much more. Then Hill got on the field, and he was phenomenal.