The Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Missouri? That’s not the way I heard it.
Actually, it’s the other way around, and the actual article says such. But never mind; I am a blogger, and I have a headline to slag on.
But.
You know I’ve slagged on Springfield’s ongoing drive for a taxpayer-funded conference center (still ongoing), and I’ve slagged on the (successful) efforts by the St. Louis Cardinals to get taxpayer funding for a stadium and more, and…
Well, here we are in this blessed year of 2025, and we didn’t pony up to service the billionaires who own a football team, and they’ve gone on and….
Well, who knows what the future will bring.
Flamin’ Manchicis, oh so soft and cuddly. Missourians do seem to be catching on, though. Thirty years ago, they gave the Rams a new stadium, and the Rams decamped for LA the first chance they got. The St. Louis Cardinals threatened to move across the river, so Missourians gave them a new stadium and they returned with a fairly mediocre product. Recently, Springfield voted down a tax increase for a convention center, and Missourians voted against a tax-provided stadium for the Chiefs who are showing their loyalty to Kansas City, Missouri by crossing the state line to service the highest bidder.
A lot of articles are billing this as a loss for Missouri, but I think it’s a mark of sanity on the part of the citizens.
And let’s be honest: Going from Kansas City, Missouri, to Kansas City, Kansas, to spend a thousand dollars or so to see a football game is just crossing a line in the dirt. It’s not like crossing the Mississippi River at bridge chokepoints, so it’s not any extra hardship to get there. But who knows where professional sports will be in six years. It might not be what it is today, and this might turn into a better deal for Missouri to let them walk.
