Kansas City Chiefs moving to Kansas?

[Mr. WEO]

11 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

The “Toronto Bills” would make about as much sense as the Utah Jazz. Sure, that made sense in New Orleans, but Salt Lake City is one of the last places I would ever think of when jazz comes up.  If the Miami Hurricanes moved to Minneapolis, or the Phoenix Suns moved to Buffalo……. Did nobody think to come up with a new name?  🤷‍♂️

 

Did "Buffalo Bills" ever make sense?  It was picked in an essay contest

[Xwnyer]

Well trump did congratulate the great state of Kansas for the KC SB win 

Edited March 29, 2022 by Xwnyer

[Let's Go Buffalo]

I think some already may have alluded to this, but my guess is that if they did move the stadium, it would still be in Kansas City, just in the Kansas portion of Kansas City, and not the Missouri side like it is currently.....The Chiefs and Royals are both located just barely across the State Line, the way it is.

[Saxum]

45 minutes ago, WotAGuy said:

Reminds me of the 70s and 80s when you had to go to Fort Erie to get the good beer and strip joints. 
Border Guard: “Bringing anything into the States?”

Me: “Just a case of Brador!”

Border Guard: “👍”

 

Beer, gas and Chinese food.

There was guy from one of the fraternities who would go around in dorm asking "Who wants free Chinese food?"

Guys would put up their hands.

Next who has a valid ID showing old enough to buy beer? If you do show them.

Hands would go up and he would pick 5 guys and my observation more "skill" types than "beef".

We would drive to border and before border guard he would say "No funny stuff or you walk back."

IDs would be asked and everyone would show and we went into to beer store where he loaded it up with 12 cases of beer.

We would go to this Chinese takeout place and he would order food.  You could say what you wanted within limits.

He would go to gas station, fill up tank, and return to border.

At gate US border guard would ask "What were you in Canada for?"

We got into a pattern and would reply "Beer, gas and Chinese food." in unison.

Sometimes guard would ask for IDs. Once guard asked "Go to strip clubs?" and a guy said "Maybe we can next time rather than Chinese food."

It was a pattern for me most of my 1st semester in college once a week. 

 

 

[chongli]

3 hours ago, MJS said:

There aren't two. It's the same city, but since it is on the boarder, the city has portions on both sides.

 

3 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

So, Kansas City is one entity and the state line has no effect?  That seems odd. Otherwise, they are in fact two separate cities with independent municipal and state governments.
 

 Upon reading further, it seems the two entities combine to form the “Kansas City metropolitan area”. So in that sense, they are one entity.  Interesting!

 

AFAIK, they are two different cities with two different mayors, just like Niagara Falls, NY, and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Both KC's are in the same metropolitan area.

[Buffalo716]

6 minutes ago, chongli said:

 

 

AFAIK, they are two different cities with two different mayors, just like Niagara Falls, NY, and Niagara Falls, Ontario. Both KC's are in the same metropolitan area.

Yea but those are 2 different countries 

 

These are atleast boundary states

[Sharky7337]

4 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

This brings up a question - why the hell are there two Kansas Citys?  Makes no sense. Why isn’t the town on the Mizzou side called Missouri City?  

Every state near the territory had a Kansas in it at one point. Arrrrrrrkansas just went full pirate to hide it.

[RiotAct]

3 hours ago, Momma Pecoraro said:

Free-Soil or bust!

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

[JakeFrommStateFarm]

3 hours ago, MJS said:

There aren't two. It's the same city, but since it is on the boarder, the city has portions on both sides.

[Richard Noggin]

2 hours ago, Augie said:

 

The “Toronto Bills” would make about as much sense as the Utah Jazz. Sure, that made sense in New Orleans, but Salt Lake City is one of the last places I would ever think of when jazz comes up.  If the Miami Hurricanes moved to Minneapolis, or the Phoenix Suns moved to Buffalo……. Did nobody think to come up with a new name?  🤷‍♂️

In many ways, the Bills should probably be the Bisons. Outside of Berman's "nobody circles the wagons" refrain, no one is thinking about "Buffalo" Bill Cody and his iconic status in the execution and romanticization of the U.S.'s fraught history of Westward expansion/colonization. We're mostly thinking about stampeding herds of bison, obscured visibly by nostril jets of vapor on a wintry plain and audibly by the seismic rumble of their unstoppable advance. (Ironically, eventually stopped by the likes of Cody and those he inspired.)

[djp14150]

5 hours ago, Just Jack said:

Just words at the moment...

 

Chiefs Fans Are Furious About The Stadium Speculation

 

 

i have lived in the KC area

 

KC is on the Missouri/ Kansas border. There is a KC, .mso and a KC, KS. The Missouri River is the boundary when it gives north/ south. In dientoennKC it turns east/west so south of this turn the border is a state line. I-70 crosses east west and the main beltway loop surrounds the city.

 

on the Missouri side of 70 and beltway is where the football and baseball stadiums are sharing a lot. On the Kansas side of 70 and the beltways is the nascar racetrack, the MLS soccer stadium and a major outdoor amphitheater. A large shopping mall is near all these.

 

Overland Park, is is where the corporate headquarters of sprint and Cerner health are systems were HQ. There are other tech jobs innthus area as well as the Kansas university medical school/ hospital are located near here.

 

like buffalo, K.c metro area has a racial divide in the population. In buffalo generally west of Main Street is a clear racial divide other than a few pockets.

 

in KC the racial divide is a line right around the state boundary just east in Missouri that gives thru much of the Missouri side including the stadium area.  
 

the likeky plan woukd be to put this stadium in the high income/ corporate HQ area of Overland Park area near where I-35 thst diagonally crises KC hits the beltway. This area is 20 miles away from Kansas university in Lawrence.

 

the north side of KC is where the airport is located.  Fir comparison purposes it’s equivalent of buffalo to the Niagara falls falls airport/ guard base is to buffalo.

 

KC arena is in downtown KC is in Missouri that gives pretty unused since there is no nhl/ nba team there.

 

 

[K-9]

3 hours ago, msw2112 said:

 

Not really relevant to this discussion, but I once went skiing in Lake Tahoe and had one leg in Nevada and the other in Caifornia as I straddled the state line.   That was at the top of the mountain.  You can do the same at street level, but the Nevada leg would be inside of a casino and the California leg would be out in the street, so it might get run over by a car.

 

Arrowhead is in outlying area (from downtown KC) bounded by interstates and it directly adjacent to the KC Royals stadium.  Not certain, but they may share some parking lots.  So, yes, a new stadium could be in another state and yet still be more of a "downtown" stadium than it currently is.

That’s nothing. I went to the Four Corners Monument and had my hands and feet in four separate states at once. 

Edited March 30, 2022 by K-9

[GoBills808]

They need a rebrand period

 

The whole Chiefs thing, the drum, the chanting...cringe af

[GunnerBill]

7 hours ago, GoBills808 said:

They need a rebrand period

 

The whole Chiefs thing, the drum, the chanting...cringe af

 

I could live without ever seeing that stupid tomahawk chop thing they do ever again......

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

14 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

This brings up a question - why the hell are there two Kansas Citys?  Makes no sense. Why isn’t the town on the Mizzou side called Missouri City?  

  

Because we already stole it. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_City,_Texas

 

 

 

[nucci]

But then they can't claim to be the only team in the state....kinda like Bills fans obsession about being only NYS team

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

The networks will continue to use stock shots of bbq being prepared for the commercial lead ins.  Similar to the chicken wing prep shots in Buffalo and long shot of Niagara Falls, which were filmed in 2006. 😁

[Greg S]

14 hours ago, Arkady Renko said:

I am sure most Giants and Jets fans in New York City weren't thrilled about their teams playing in New Jersey either.  

 

Jets fans hated it. Here is a look back at the final game at Shea.

 

 

 

[hondo in seattle]

15 hours ago, Warcodered said:

If it's still in the Kansas City area then this would be such a dumb thing to get mad about.

 

I, unfortunately, live in the KC area right now.  Most of the fans I've talked to don't care very much.  There is some lingering affection for Arrowhead.  But the biggest concern about a change in location is about commute times, not state address per se.  For most fans I think, if the new location would be closer to their home, they'd like it.

 

Kansas City, MO, has a population of roughly 500,000 compared to KCK's population of 150,000.  So the Missouri version of Kansas City is much bigger and includes most of the tall buildings, the financial district, the museums, and so on. 

 

But the KC metro area is more evenly divided between the two states.  For example, Johnson County in Kansas is part of metro KC and has a population of 600,000.  About 40% of the people in metro KC live in KS while 60% live in MO.

 

 

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

27 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

But the KC metro area is more evenly divided between the two states.  For example, Johnson County in Kansas is part of metro KC and has a population of 600,000.  About 40% of the people in metro KC live in KS while 60% live in MO.

 

You said "Johnson"