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Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm
Anyone else thinking that the Royals/Chiefs both planned all along to see this vote fail, so they could go their "separate" ways and leverage Kansas and Missouri against each other? Say the Chiefs get a deal cut with Kansas sooner than later, leaving Missouri with nothing but the Royals and their hopes to get a new downtown/NKC stadium?
Might be the best thing for both franchises and the KC Metro region as a whole.
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Chiefs got dragged into it by the Royals locking their brains on needing to be real estate developers around a new stadium to have a future.
Chiefs make a bigger profit as exclusive tenant with concert revenue rights at Arrowhead than they would make as owners of a new Stadium that they would own and have to service the debt with no public funding.
It is funny how cynical people think people are. Last year's Super Bowl rings did not have to be all about Arrowhead Stadium being the greatest place on Earth.
Somebody with the Royals ownership group needs to interrogate their belief that they have to make money in real estate around a new ballpark in order to survive.
The whole thing flopped because Royals fooled themselves into thinking their survival depended on emulating the Cardinals. That does not make sense and they never explained why they believed that.