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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
You guys are losing your minds for no reason.
Nobody is going anywhere.
Both teams will come back with probably separate proposals - and they should, and they should be separated. If it's not going to be one complex anymore, why should The Chiefs be tied to the boat anchor Royals?
The Chiefs renovation will almost surely pass. Nobody cares about a less than half a cent tax.
The Royals sunk this vote by being very, very stupid. Get a better plan that doesn't suck shit and it'll probably pass, too. East Village site probably would have passed easily. It was monumentally stupid to assume that The Chiefs would provide enough cover for them to do this.
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Both of these teams did a terrible job of messaging through this thing, but I also think they both were clear in what they were going to do. If you wanted to keep Arrowhead this was the plan, this was the best they're going to do. Donovan pretty much said it again last night. I don't think they're coming back with another Arrowhead plan after all the toxic back and forth with Frank White. They have one the biggest sports brands in the world right now thanks to Mahomes and Taylor Swift. Clark can do pretty much anything he wants with this team and the NFL is basically a license to print money no matter what. You have no leverage. What's the reason to stay? They'll make more money with a new stadium in Kansas and have even more amenities for rich fans than they were going to have in the renovated Arrowhead.
I don't think either team is moving out of the region but last night was probably the end of the Truman Sports Complex.The Royals are not just Sherman it's an entire ownership group full of people who are all movers and shakers in KC. The Chiefs are the ones who have no real ties to Kansas City, and they have all the leverage though so I can see them both ending up in Kansas, or the Chiefs move first and then the Royals use that leverage to end up downtown or in Clay County or something. I do think the teams bungled this super hard but there's also quite a bit of overconfidence from some of the voters that they have more leverage than they do.