Kansas City History Reveals That Teams WILL Leave This Cowtown

Here's our only problem with some critics of Question 1 . . .

ANYBODY CLAIMING THE TEAMS ARE BLUFFING ABOUT LEAVING IS SAYING AS MUCH WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE!!!

And so . . . We appreciate this perspective on old school legacies of bygone games . . .

Representatives of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals have suggested they would consider other “options” if Jackson County voters on April 2 do not approve the sales tax that would help build the Royals a downtown stadium and upgrade the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium.

“If the taxpayers say no, then they’ll look at all their options,” said Sly James, a former mayor of Kansas City and a consultant for the stadium tax campaign. “And all of those options are available to them… Four teams have moved, I think, in the last five or six years. Every one of them has moved because of stadiums.”

Some fans appear to have taken such remarks to be somewhere between empty threats and fighting words in trying to divine the teams’ true intentions.

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Kansas City Royals and Chiefs Flirt With 'Options'

It's not hard to find examples of big-time professional sports franchises leaving Kansas City for greener pastures. Could the Royals and Chiefs be next?