The clock is engraved on the transfer of a potential chief from one Kansas City to another prime minister.
Kansas City star Matthew Kelly has been named after Kansas. Maybe you’ll get a new stadium offer I’m away from the table on June 30th.
House Speaker Dan Hawkins told Kelly he didn’t want to extend the expiration dates for the Chief or the MLB royal family.
“If they want to do that, I think they still have time to do that,” Hawkins said.
Hawkins doesn’t want to extend the deadline by leveraging the Chief (and the Royals) ongoing efforts to acquire stadium solutions in Minnesota.
“If one of them wants to come to Kansas or both, we want to have them,” Hawkins told Kelly. “I have the tools.”
The Chiefs may prefer Clark Hunt and team president Mark Donovan at this point (as pointed out by Nate Taylor of Theathletic.com). Imagine a dome for the chief. Like any outdoor team looking for a new stadium, the dome opens the door to events throughout the year.
And Hunt wants the Chiefs to host the Super Bowl.
This is part of the loose, informal Quid Pro for cold weather cities that build dome-shaped stadiums with considerable taxpayer money.
But while it unfolds, Donovan realizes that Kansas is not bluffing. “Hypothetically, when you’re trying to find a way to put a deal together, if you’re on either side of the table, you’re looking at the deadline,” Donovan told Taylor. “That June 30th (deadline) is real.”
While that may certainly be a statement of fact, it is also a clear warning to Missouri that time has run out of time to keep Arrowhead Stadium at the head’s home.
The Chiefs’ current leases will run throughout the 2030 season. This means you can do a short trek from Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City and Kansas City right away in 2031.
