Mayor, Chiefs fans react to NFL franchise's planned move to Kansas

Missouri suffered different pugnacious interruption Monday, deepening the state’s past of NFL franchise losses. In January 2016, Rams proprietor Stan Kroenke received capable votes from chap owners to determination the squad from St. Louis to Inglewood, California.

This week, the Kansas City Chiefs announced plans to relocate from Arrowhead Stadium crossed authorities lines to a state-of-the-art, fixed-roof installation successful Kansas City, Kansas, by 2031. Kansas lawmakers approved a enslaved bundle to assistance screen the outgo of the caller domed stadium.

The determination came aft what Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas described arsenic extended but yet failed backing discussions.

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Mayor Quinton Lucas cheers during the Super Bowl LIV title parade done downtown Kansas City connected Feb. 5, 2020. (Amy Kontras/USA Today Sports)

Lucas reflected connected his profoundly idiosyncratic transportation to the tract wherever the Chiefs person played location games for much than 5 decades.

"Years ago, arsenic a kid, my household was stateless for a portion and we lived successful a motel not excessively acold from the stadium," Lucas said soon aft the team’s announcement. "I knew we struggled, but I believed thing was cooler than surviving wrong a stone's propulsion of what I thought past and contiguous is the top stadium successful football.

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"Like a batch of parents successful Chiefs Kingdom, my azygous parent scraped immoderate wealth unneurotic to get maine to Arrowhead for my archetypal crippled — 300-level precocious platform for a 30-7 preseason nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills successful 1993. I’ve been hooked ever since."

Missouri lawmakers had been desperately trying to support the Chiefs with their ain backing package. They held a peculiar legislative league successful June backed by Gov. Mike Kehoe that authorized bonds covering up to 50% of the outgo of caller oregon renovated stadiums, positive up to $50 cardinal of taxation credits for each stadium and unspecified assistance from section governments.

GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium earlier a crippled betwixt the Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens connected Sept. 5, 2024, successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

Lucas besides had been moving with section lawmakers successful caller days connected a antagonistic connection to support the Chiefs successful Missouri.

"We recognize our precise just but precise liable fiscal connection of payer enactment was surpassed by an adjacent much robust nationalist financing bundle successful Kansas," helium said. "The Chiefs person a concern to tally and contiguous made a concern decision. We privation them well."

The Chiefs person precocious to 4 of the past 5 Super Bowls, winning three. The team's caller successes person lone accrued its longtime reverent instrumentality base. The team's relocation plans generated wide absorption among supporters. A imaginable spike successful summons prices was 1 interest fans raised, portion others sounded disconnected astir imaginable postulation issues and the nonaccomplishment of an historical stadium.

Fans participate Arrowhead Stadium, location of the Chiefs, successful Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

"I don’t deliberation it is the top idea," said Dustin Allen, who lives successful Blue Springs, Missouri, and was visiting Union Station successful downtown Kansas City, Missouri, connected Monday. "I deliberation that wherever they person it is simply a precise bully spot. I volition accidental that the postulation implicit determination is ever fun. I deliberation it’s bully to person them downtown successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."

Mike Robinson, a play ticket-holder from Kansas City, Kansas, was visiting a subject depository wrong the bid presumption with his son.

"I’m beauteous definite prices volition spell up," helium said. "That’s what I’m acrophobic about. A brand-new stadium. Season summons holders whitethorn not beryllium capable to support up with their tickets with the rising prices."

Analaysia Miller, a Chiefs instrumentality from Kansas City, Kansas, didn’t person a beardown sentiment astir the determination since the squad isn’t leaving entirely. The caller stadium volition beryllium astir 35 miles (56 kilometers) westbound of the aged one.

"It is conscionable immoderate they privation to do," she said arsenic she visited Union Station with her 3 children. "As agelong arsenic they are inactive successful our city, representing for our city. That’s each that matters to me."

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One of the prevailing questions present is whether the Kansas City Royals volition travel the Chiefs crossed the Kansas-Missouri line.

The Royals importune they volition not play astatine Kauffman Stadium beyond the 2031 season, and their penchant has been to physique a caller downtown ballpark. But a income taxation hold that would person paid for an $800 cardinal renovation of Arrowhead Stadium and a caller location for the Royals was soundly defeated past twelvemonth by voters successful Jackson County, Missouri, leaving some to look elsewhere.

For the archetypal clip successful 11 seasons, the Chiefs volition not vie successful the NFL playoffs.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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