{"id":8328,"date":"2025-12-22T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/painful-day-missouri-officials-react-to-chiefs-announcing-move-to-kansas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:19:25","slug":"painful-day-missouri-officials-react-to-chiefs-announcing-move-to-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/22\/painful-day-missouri-officials-react-to-chiefs-announcing-move-to-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Painful day\u2019: Missouri officials react to Chiefs announcing move to Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Chiefs lease on its Kansas City stadium, which has been the team\u2019s home since 1972, will expire after the 2030 season (Jamie Squire\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade after Missouri lost its NFL franchise in St. Louis to Los Angeles, the state learned Monday that the Kansas City Chiefs are moving across the state line to Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n

The news, rumored for days, was greeted with shock and despair in Missouri, where hopes were high that a $1.5 billion incentives package approved by state lawmakers would be enough to keep the team in Arrowhead Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, a much more lucrative package from Kansas won out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a painful day for everyone in Missouri who loves our Chiefs,\u201d said state Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City Democrat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of us in Missouri, we feel like we\u2019ve been incredibly loyal to the Chiefs despite all of the frustrations over decades,\u201d Nurrenbern added. \u201cWe stuck with the Chiefs every step of the way. So this is so disappointing. I can imagine that Lamar Hunt today is rolling in his grave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs will leave Missouri for a new stadium in Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

House Speaker Jon Patterson, a Lee\u2019s Summit Republican, echoed the disappointment, saying Missouri entered into stadium negotiations at a disadvantage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think money was part of it, but I think it\u2019s also the opportunities available in Kansas,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cYou know, Arrowhead can\u2019t do a Super Bowl. Arrowhead can\u2019t do a Final Four. If you have a dome stadium, those things are all possibilities, and I think that\u2019s probably what ultimately led to the decision to move.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Missouri wasn\u2019t able to put its best foot forward, Patterson said, because \u201cleadership was very fragmented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKansas leadership was very united and professional, and they just took advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cIt would be deliciously satisfying to start pointing fingers, but I hope we can avoid that right now and just look forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

State Rep. Mark Sharp, a Kansas City Democrat, was not ready to be so magnanimous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said years of bad decisions led to Monday\u2019s news. Specifically, he pointed to former Jackson County Executive Frank White, who was recently removed from office after a recall vote. <\/span><\/p>\n

White, Sharp said in a social media post, \u201cpresided over a deeply dysfunctional and adversarial approach to our professional sports teams.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharp also cast blame on former Gov. Mike Parson for not responding to Kansas\u2019 efforts to poach the Chiefs before leaving office and Kehoe for waiting until nearly the end of this year\u2019s legislative session before presenting a stadium plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis crisis did not happen by accident,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was the result of a series of preventable leadership failures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, a Kansas City Democrat, called it \u201clegislative malpractice\u201d that Kehoe waited until the final days of the legislative session in May to offer a counterproposal to Kansas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kehoe said he remained hopeful throughout the process, and that negotiations with the Chiefs\u2019 management continued into last week. His administration has been in constant communication with both the Chiefs and the Royals, and it wasn\u2019t until Monday morning that he was informed by the Chiefs that the team was leaving.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarry Truman once said \u2018The Buck Stops Here,’\u201d Kehoe told reporters at a press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s not fun to be at the top when something like this happens, but you certainly want to try to figure out what the lessons learned here are, and moving forward, we will obviously be doing a post mortem analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is certainly a setback, Kehoe said, \u201cbut we\u2019ll work together to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chief\u2019s ownership, Kehoe said, \u201cdecided to abandon Lamar Hunt\u2019s legacy at the iconic Arrowhead Stadium, a place that Chiefs fans have rallied around since 1972. At Arrowhead, every game feels like a Super Bowl. No new stadium will replicate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson County Legislator Manny Abarca said he expects elected officials in the county, where the team is currently located, to take a closer look at how taxpayer money is spent during the remaining years of the Chiefs\u2019 and Royals\u2019 contracts to play at the Truman Sports Complex. Jackson County currently charges a \u215c-cent sales tax for stadium upkeep, generating millions a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, at this point they\u2019re like a bad ex-girlfriend. They won\u2019t go away,\u201d Abarca said of the Chiefs. \u201cAnd so the reality that they want to try and go play second fiddle in Kansas and try and lure a deal that\u2019s not written down on paper, good luck to them, best of luck. At this point, our taxpayers in Jackson County deserve a whole lot better commitment than what we\u2019re getting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chiefs\u2019 decision is \u201cincredibly disappointing, said state Sen. Patty Lewis, a Kansas City Democrat. But it\u2019s also a symptom of a larger problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no winners in a border war, just losses on both sides,\u201d she said. \u201cCompanies moving back and forth across the state line to reap massive tax breaks while creating no real net job growth is bad for families, bad for the region and bad for both states.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

State Sen. Nick Schroer, a Republican from Defiance, was among the lawmakers who openly opposed the incentives package for the Chiefs and Royals when it passed the legislature this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t want to say \u2018I told you so,\u2019 but I warned the legislature this would happen just as it did with the Rams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Schroer said he will be filing legislation this week \u201cto get rid of the asinine classification of the Chiefs as Missouri\u2019s official NFL team as it was passed just a few sessions ago. Similarly I will be getting rid of the asinine \u2018handshake\u2019 border-war resolution which says we will play nice with our neighbors next door.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chiefs lease on its Kansas City stadium, which has been the team\u2019s home since 1972, will expire after the 2030 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Missouri governor signs Kansas City stadium funding, St. Louis disaster aid<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Missouri lawmakers reconvened during a special legislative session this summer to approve a spending package that would have allocated state taxes collected from economic activity at Arrowhead and Kauffman to bond payments for renovations at Arrowhead and a new stadium for the Royals in Jackson or Clay counties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Estimated at just under $1.5 billion over 30 years, the funding would pay for half the costs \u2014 compared to 70% in Kansas \u2014 and included a requirement for additional local government financing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royals first announced an intention to leave Kauffman Stadium in November 2022. The move was pitched as a way for the Chiefs to remain in Arrowhead, demolish Kauffman and build a covered entertainment center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials in Jackson County and Kansas City began scrambling to figure out how to keep the Royals from leaving Missouri. By the spring of 2023, Clay County leaders announced interest in building a stadium in North Kansas City that could become the Royals new home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royals solicited proposals for a downtown Kansas City and North Kansas City site a few months later, and released renderings of possible stadiums at both locations in August 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after, a poll was leaked to the media showing 70% of Clay County voters opposed a new sales tax to fund a stadium in North Kansas City. Despite weeks of media speculation, no one claimed credit for the poll, which was widely seen as an attempt to shake the confidence of Royals ownership in the viability of a Clay County proposal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics, who called the survey a \u201cpush poll\u201d meant to deceive the public, decried the move at the time, arguing that sabotaging any potential Missouri site would increase the chances one or both teams end up in Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until more than a year later that documents provided to The Independent revealed it was a political action committee formed to support Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas that paid for the Clay County polling. A staffer using a Lucas campaign email address requested the poll be commissioned, and his top aide obfuscated the spending by requesting it be referred to in disclosures as \u201cresearch\u201d instead of \u201cpolling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jackson County voters were eventually presented with a proposed sales tax increase to fund a Royals stadium in Kansas City. Lucas threw his support behind the measure, but it was resoundingly rejected by voters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The failed push to pay for a new Royals stadium in Missouri left the door open for Kansas lawmakers, who quickly put their own package of incentives together to lure the teams across the state line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucas said negotiations with the team ran up until last week, and that the offer Missouri put forward was \u201cvery fair, but very responsible.\u201d He worked closely with the governor and other local and state officials, and that work will continue as Missouri strives to keep the Kansas City Royals from leaving as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Chiefs aren\u2019t going far away, and aren\u2019t gone yet, today is a setback for a Kansas Citian, a former Chiefs season ticket holder and a lifelong Chiefs fan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As Missouri mourns the loss of the Chiefs, the fate of the Royals remains in flux.<\/p>\n

The team is rumored to be eyeing a new stadium in Overland Park, Kansas. Lucas said Monday his hope is for a downtown baseball stadium, while other Missouri officials continue pushing for a North Kansas City site.<\/p>\n

Nurrenbern and Patterson both said that, as far as they were aware, negotiations with the Royals are still ongoing.<\/p>\n

News of the Chiefs decision to leave Missouri comes almost exactly 10 years after the state lost the St. Louis Rams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then-Gov. Jay Nixon was pushing for a $1 billion plan to build a new St. Louis stadium for the Rams, much to the chagrin of the legislative leadership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both sides tussled in the media and the courts, but the fight between the Democratic governor and GOP-dominated General Assembly fizzled after the Rams announced an intention to move to Los Angeles two days before the 2016 legislative session began.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NFL owners overwhelmingly agreed to let them do it soon after.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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