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Originally Posted by DanT
The NFL would lose credibility with a lot of fans if a franchise as well-supported as the Chiefs have been by a local fanbase entertained bids to leave. You have to remember that the NFL gameday product is fairly weak, 3 hours of pickup truck commercials and replay reviews and about 30 minutes of "action", if you can call it that. We NFL fans are fairly stupid and completely addicted. Thankfully, the NFL ensures that all the fanbases can at least hope to win a championship at some point in the near future. But, if the Chiefs were to pull some shit like entertaining bids from cities that almost certainly would be "non or only marginally major league" cities, it would throw a lot of ice water on fan faces around the country and wake a lot of them up and make them reexamine their lives and sports interests.  |
I don't believe that for a second (but of course you could be right!). If the team/league had the right price and the right city I believe they would already be gone. They extorted multiple cities during the "who is going to end up being in LA" years.
If fans and cities believed their team isn't going to move then what is the incentive for cities to pay billions of dollars to keep them?