Currently, the Kansas City Chiefs play in Missouri and have since moving to the city in 1963. But it sounds like there’s a chance the team could play in a different state in the coming years – though not far away at all.
Kansas City is split by the border between Kansas and Missouri. And with the Chiefs unable to secure taxpayer money to fund stadium renovations in Missouri, it sounds like there’s a good chance Kansas would be willing to give them that money to move across the border. And the Chiefs seem to be at least open to considering that option.
“Missouri spoke. Jackson County spoke. They had their opportunity,” said Korb Maxwell, an attorney representing the Chiefs at a hearing before the Kansas legislature to review the bond measure, according to Front Office Sports. “But now, there’s a moment for Kansas to step up and an option for us all here.”
Earlier this month, bipartisan supermajorities in both chambers of the Kansas legislature approved a measure to issue bonds to build a new stadium for the Chiefs should they decide to move across the border. But Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas isn’t happy about it.
“[The] vote regrettably restarts the Missouri-Kansas incentive border war, creating leverage for the teams but injecting even greater uncertainty into the regional stadium conversation,” Lucas said.
We’ll have to see what happens, but it certainly sounds possible that the Chiefs could move to Kansas.
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