i’m glad it failed if for no other reason than how bad that the chiefs proposal was. they should be embarrassed by their proposal.
anyway, i’d like to see subsequent discussions whereby the two teams are disconnected from each other. the royals are going to take another swing at this next year and if they spend just a few minutes on it, instead of the zero minutes that was spent this go round, i’m sure it will pass. but i’ll reiterate, they did themselves no favors attaching themselves to the 10 ton anchor that was the Chiefs’ dogshit ideas.
inept laziness asking for a cool half billion with the lack of real effort going into this ask of kc.
There's some truth here - especially the bit about both teams just assuming they could trot out a pile of dog crap and it would pass - but I actually think if the Royals had gone with the East Village site that this is exactly what would have happened and it would have passed.
When the Royals turned their sights on the Crossroads - and the very engaged community that lives/works/plays there - they unleashed fury/anger about billionaire entitlement, etc. The East Village site would have had none of that element - if for no other reason than the Royals/city have been buying up property in that area for years. It also had the benefit of being able to say "urban redevelopment" because the space was largely devoid of anything whereas it was the complete opposite scenario in the Crossroads.
The effort from both teams was so poor that it ALMOST (but doesn't) makes me wonder if this was the desired outcome because it now gives them a pass to do whatever they want... "We TRIED to stay in Jackson County, but the voters said no. Now, we need to move to (insert: Kansas, Northland, etc.) because they actually want us."
Yeah, I'm hoping this was a "crap maybe we should actually try moment" not a prelude to shop around but I feel like it's the later. East Village would've passed easily, and I tend to agree w/ Clams I think the very half assed Chiefs proposal slapped to it, especially when all the crap about Hunt not paying for anything already in shitty ass conditions like no AC really I think made a lot/enough people balk at this.
Hopefully they think about this fully.
In hindsight, it really was the perfect storm of crap for the Yes people. JACO people are rough ridin' pissed about there home tax assessments right now, Clark just got dragged in the sports media about how shitty the Chiefs facilities are, the Royals decide at the last minute and after multiple missed deadlines that they are going to cram a stadium into an area that never asked for or wanted it, and the Chiefs stayed quiet until the last minute and were forced to scramble to show a drawing of the same Arrowhead, but without the K next to it and acted like it was an improvement. They def underestimated the opposition.
I also wonder if other cities will see this and go, hmm, make those fuckers pay for it themselves. Most likely won't happen, but will be interesting to see. Shefter tweeted about it and I was surprised that most of the comments from the insane NFL people basically said eff the owners.
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it seemed ot or cb were almost a lock.
