I laugh when I hear everybody run around and say that KC couldve built two new stadiums for what they're paying for the renovation. Sure they could have built two new stadiums . . . two new cookie cutter stadiums. I see some folks in a certain fanbase discussing this subject using the Phoenix Cardinals stadium as an example. It cost $450 million and is pretty much state of the art (albeit Jerry Jones is changing that definition) . . . but here's the deal, it seats 15,000 less than Arrowhead. To build a comparable stadium amenities wise as the new Phoenix stadium, matching Arrowhead's seating capacity, you're looking at $580 million easy. Toss in a new non cookie cutter baseball park, and you're looking at $1 billion. To get two new paradigm shifting facilities like the Harry Truman Sports Complex was, you're looking at well over $1 billion.
Plus, the "throw back" era in new sports facilities is starting to run its course. A bunch of these major league ballparks are starting to look the same . . . the same capstone, brick, stonework facade with the windows and the same iron work. I don't want to see a new Soldier Field abomination, but I still have to laugh at people who thought they were going to get Lambeau Field (post renovation) out of the "new" Arrowhead.
