Wall Street Journal ALMOST Explains 'Armpit Of Kansas City' Winning Chiefs

This report is mostly full of it and explains the sitch in terms intended to explain the metro to East Coast audiences . . . Still, here's the politicized overview that offers a nod to Dems and kinda portrays everyone in this town as a bit of a rube . . . Check-it: 

"Inside KCK, a popular message was: Get out! From 1970 to 2010, when metropolitan Kansas City’s population exploded 40%, to more than 2 million, the population of KCK fell census after census, bottoming out at 145,000 in 2010. The metro area was expanding in every direction except West.

"How’d we win the Chiefs? In large part that came from the city’s decadeslong failure to grow, which meant that undeveloped land—miles and miles of it, grazed by cattle—lay within a few minutes’ drive of downtown KCMO. That land already had greater Kansas City’s interstate loop running through it, promising easy access. Also key were two politicians, both women, both Democrats, one a mayor, the other a governor, both masterful at working with the Republican majorities that dominate Kansas politics. The final key? Sports. KCK, long an exporter of great athletes like the Olympic gold medalist Maurice Green, became a sports importer, a brilliant strategy culminating this month in that commitment from the Chiefs."

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Wall Street Journal At MSN: How the 'armpit of Kansas City' landed the Chiefs

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