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04-04-2024, 08:43 PM | Topic Starter |
I'll **** anything that moves!
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So Just What Do We All Want Stadium-Wise?
This is a Chiefs board, so I know and expect to see some obvious bias toward the Chiefs over the Royals in this forum. This is weighted even moreso towards the Chiefs favor due to their incredible run over the past six years.
I know we all love the Chiefs, but there are a lot of Royals fans too. KC has historically been a very, very good sports town, and great host for the Chiefs and Royals. Weird that the teams never seem to be good at the same time, though maybe that will change if BWJr and the boys in blue can get something going during what is now the Mahomes Era. But I digress... sorry, I get long-winded sometimes. What do we all want stadium-wise going forward? Enough of this sky is falling horseshit where both teams are getting their ducks in a row to get the hell out of KC. I don't buy that for a second. Maybe you don't agree, that's fine. But I really want to know what the people of this board would like to see happen, because there will be another vote within the next year or two with future proposals. So what do we want these proposals to ideally be? |
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04-04-2024, 08:45 PM | #2 |
Keep Camp Home!
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For them to be close enough for me to take grandkids who are yet to be born to games. (both teams)
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04-04-2024, 08:47 PM | #3 |
Mahomes Fanboi
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Royals move to Johnson County and they pay the taxes. Chiefs stay where they are and expand (with better plans than the current bullshit) |
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04-04-2024, 09:02 PM | #4 |
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04-05-2024, 12:41 AM | #5 | |
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I would like to use the original plans for Arrowhead, and make all the desired upgrades, with a retractable roof. I wonder if with foldable panels, they could use the retractable roof as advertising, like the sphere, but on a much smaller scale. I think Arrowhead is iconic, so nice we built it twice, and we need a retractable roof at a minimum. |
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04-05-2024, 07:55 AM | #6 | |
**** the Raiders
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A new stadium means a new design, and that likely means it won’t be as loud as the current design. A new stadium means serious changes. And you might as well start preparing yourself for those changes, because they are sadly coming. |
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04-04-2024, 08:47 PM | #7 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
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What we got
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04-05-2024, 09:20 AM | #8 | |
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That answer just doesn't work. I understand that's how you feel and its legitimate, but from a team (ie business perspective) it just doesn't work that way.
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Here is my my take on all of this. 1. The public has do decide if they want a piece of the action or not. I get the argument that the tax payer shouldn't have foot the bill for a new baseball stadium downtown when they love the existing one. And why are we building stadiums for rich owners anyway. On the other hand, by not extending an existing tax that helps fund the stadiums, both teams will explore their options and they are going to do what's in their best financial interest. While I think the Chiefs are locked into the area, baseball is a different story, what if Oklahoma City really wants a baseball team? It wouldn't surprise me at all if they would bend over backwards to build a downtown stadium. Another option would be Nashville. Both of those cities would love to bring another sports franchise to their cities, and if I were them I'd be aggressive as hell. Going to either city makes sense for both the city and team. 2. As someone mentioned here the other day the Chiefs are now in a power position. If they did decided to leave the Truman Sports complex, people will rightly point to this vote as the reason why it didn't work. If I'm the Chiefs, I can't justify sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into facilities that they public no longer wants to support and the team doesn't own. So the only option for the Truman Sports Complex is for the county to sell it to Hunt and the Chiefs. Its a great piece of property, but you are going to sell it for pennies on the dollar (like the Snead trade) because you are getting the Hunt family to permanently stay and invst there and in return you get to property tax revenue from the property. The Chiefs owning the Truman Sports Complex allows them to totally reimagine it. I'm sure local governments would give the team some tax incentives (TIF) to help with the cost of redevelopment. You could also give the team a sales tax rebate which would allow them to keep a chunk of the sales tax generated on the grounds for period of time. Such incentives would encourage the team to build a new stadium, build new state of the art facilities, and probably an entertainment district (Hotels, Restaurants, and Bars), which is what I want to see done. |
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04-05-2024, 11:10 AM | #9 | |
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04-04-2024, 08:49 PM | #10 |
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Welcome to the next 7 years of threads
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04-04-2024, 08:53 PM | #11 |
I'll **** anything that moves!
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Apologies if it seems like I'm going down that road. For all the threads and thoughts I've seen get thrown around over the past week and months, I've never seen something where we say what we actually want. Was hoping this might be a bit more positive than the back and forth ugliness. It's probably wishful thinking.
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04-04-2024, 09:01 PM | #12 |
I Like The Kansas City Chiefs
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Blackjack and hookers
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04-04-2024, 09:31 PM | #13 |
Everything is Awesome!!!!!
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04-04-2024, 11:04 PM | #14 |
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A dome.
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04-04-2024, 09:36 PM | #15 |
Sometimes it's black and white
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