Are you worried that the Chiefs and Royals could leave KC?

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Stadiums arenas. The Oakland Athletics aregoing to move to Sacramento for three seasons
next year, the year after,and the year after that, with the
hopes that in twenty twenty eight theirLas Vegas stadium will be done and they
can move in fully and become theLas Vegas Athletics. Do we call them
the Sacramento Athletics for the three yearsthat they're there? They certainly are no

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longer the Oakland A's feels weird,But I guess maybe you do. I
don't know, somebody will have tofigure that out. What a shame you
think about? How much of ashame this is? I mean, yeah,
it was sad when like the Sonicsleft Seattle in the NBA, or
when the Nordaks left Quebec to goto Colorado, the nord Deaks, the

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Quebec Nordaks never heard of them?Are you for real? For real?
Are you for real? Are youthat? Are you yanking me right now?
No? I am not weird,Al Yankovic your chain at all?
Look look it up Quebec Nordaks.Awesome color scheme, awesome logo, the
Quebec Nordiaks. I cannot believe this. Yeah, there it is. Tell

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the people what you're seeing. QuebecNordiics. Oh that is what is that?
What's a Nordiic? It looks likean elephant. It's not an elephant.
It's an igloo. Oh it's anil with a hockey stick. A
hockey stick. That's cool. Itold you it was cool. It's fun.
Yeah. Well they moved. Theymoved them to Colorado so they could
become the Avalanche Quebec Quebec Quebec,and we're missing out. So there's no

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team up in Quebec anymore. No, but the Phoenix or the Arizona Coyote
certainly are making a play to potentiallybe the next one. Can well Cuissants,
No different things, stop it,okay, next thing. Hartford Whalers
another classic example. Yes, allright, they moved to Carolina. They're
the Hurricanes. Now, okay,there's several several teams like this. Okay,

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but but there's something about the Athletics. They've been a team since nineteen
oh one in the American League.They were a founding member of the American
League. They've won like five WorldSeries championships maybe more. Were they always
in Oakland? No, they werethe Philadelphia A's Philadelphia Athletics, and they
were the Kansas City Athletics for atime in the fifties and sixties, and

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then bolted for Oakland in the latesixties, which then opened the door for
an expansion team a few years later, which would be called the Kansas City
Royals. And then the A's hadgreat success, winning three World Series titles
I think in a row in theearly seventies. Then they tacked on another
one for good major. I thinkit was eighty nine that Ricky Henderson that
was the Earthquake series. Remember,Yeah, I like my baseball history.

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Ricky Henderson notable for talking in thethird person and stealing bases while he did
so, and stealing more bases thananybody ever has in probably ever will.
There's no way anybody catches him withthe analytics that we know now. Okay,
with that being said, it's reallysad you can go back, even
just a few years and find incrediblestuff from Oakland's coliseum and people just having

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insane reactions to how good their teamwas. They made a movie, Moneyball
is about the Oakland A's. Imean, it's about Billy Bean, who
runs the A's. He still does. By the way, he's still there,
different job title, but he's therein the front office. What happened

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to him? He's been terrible lately. He has no he has no funding.
There's no money. Okay, butnow we're going to just have them
play in a minor league park andcall them the Sacramento A's of Las Vegas
or something. I think you gotto change the name to what the Sacramento
sad sacks it suits him. Howabout this one, the Sacramento moldy loafs

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of bread. Hey, I justwant to throw this out here. If
you change that name, you mightas well just blow him up forever.
Leave the Do what the Browns didwhen the Browns left Cleveland, which is
the nearest thing that I can thinkof to this example. The Browns left
for Baltimore, but the NFL said, we're leaving the team colors, the

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uniforms, the team history. Itstays here because in the future, in
case we can build another team ormove a team here, they're going to
pick up where that team left off. And then they did, like four
years later, there was an expansionteam. Cleveland Browns came back to the
NFL and there they are. Andso if you look at Brown's history,
there's just like a gap of afew years. But the Baltimore Ravens,

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their team history essentially starts when theyget there. They don't they don't take
they didn't take any of the championshipsor anything. The Browns won pretty Super
Bowl era and claim them as theirown right. The A's have taken the
name to different cities already. Theywere the Philadelphia A's for over fifty years.

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Connie Mack was like in charge ofthem for fifty years, but again
shoe string budget at times. Hewas constantly rebuilding his team. But they
won World Series in the early nineteenteens, won World Series in the thirties,
had really great players. Moved themto like when he was getting out
of it, he had to sellthem. They were moved in because they

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basically went bankrupt to Kansas City.It's a long story. Find it on
Wikipedia, on and on and on. They've been the A's the whole time.
Keep them the A's. But thenmoving to Sacramento is quite interesting.
Now here's here's the kicker. Onthe Omaha part of this. We were
suggesting, if Sacramento can do thiswhy couldn't Omaha and why couldn't Omaha if
you wanted to do this? What'sstopping the Phoenix or sorry, the Arizona

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Coyotes from playing NHL games here cHi Housen and Omaha not really outfitted for
hockey, So you can't really justsay, hey, why can't they just
go play in our arena and wecould show them that we'd support them.
Because they're playing in Arizona State's arenaright now, which seats like five thousand
people. Hey, what's the Baxter. I don't know what the deal is

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with Arizona State, but they madea deal with Arizona State to do this.
It's a little trickier. There's professionalteams, there're teams. I mean,
the Omaha Lancers can't play there,you know what I mean. Baxter
seats are cool, just under eightthousand. It's about the it's a little
bigger, I think than the ArizonaState facility that the Coyotes are playing in,

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and they're they're finding a way toshare between the two. Right,
Well, they play basketball in theBaxter two, like both the U and
O basketball teams play basketball over there, right, I think there's a lot
of other stuff that goes on overthere. The college has it. It's
theirs. Yeah, I mean Creighton, same thing with their facilities outside of
Chi which really isn't theirs and Charlesschwab Field, which really isn't theirs,

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but they still use it for theirstuff. Right. I guess my point
here is Omaha has a play.I think if this, if this Sacramento
thing, is the indication Omaha allof a sudden has to get some eyeballs
as a potential major sports city.And I'll explain why, even though that

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there is a failed professional sports teamthat came here and didn't do well,
And I'll explain why it's different nexton news radio eleven ten KFAB and Rays
Songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. All right, it's three years of
Sacramento. They're increasing from fourteen ishthousand to eighteen ish thousand for people to

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come and support them, and we'renot sure that's going to happen. Now.
Sacramento is nearby, so it's notlike apples and oranges. But I
am making the case why Sacramento,this Sacramento thing. If this works out,
there's a chance that Omaha could getan opportunity in the future to maybe

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get the waters tested with it asa potential market. You had a great
example from the middle of the twothousand odds, right when the New Orleans
at the time Hornets had to relocatebecause of Hurricane Katrina. They did so
to Oklahoma City. At the time, that was just necessity. They had
a place for them to play,there was an arena there, and there

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really wasn't much expectation other than hey, this home city will be hospitable until
we get our arena figured out inNew Orleans. Well, what happened was
is it spawned a situation where peopleat large looked around and said, hey,
Oklahoma City, you guys actually morethan you know, handled yourselves when

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the Hornets were there in town andcreated themselves as a viable candidate whenever the
next relocation opportunity happened, which wasless than five years later, when the
Seattle SuperSonics were sold to a groupout of Oklahoma City who were like,
Hey, if we get a teamhere, it would work. Yeah.

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And then what happened boom, Yeah, and here they are and they're successful,
only major sports team in that city. But we talked about it in
the NBA and NHL especially. That'sthere are cities like that classic business plan.
They got their prototype, they gottheir their their moment to show people
it would work, and then theinvestors showed up. Sacramento also is like

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that. Now they didn't have theability to surrogately test the waters. But
the Kings have been there since nineteeneighty four, right, Yeah, an
NBA team and it's worked. Thatteam has been garbage most of the time.
They've had some fun teams, somegood teams. The Mitch Richmond years
in the early nineties were kind offun for them. Yeah, you had

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the Vade Diva, Chris Weber,Mike Bibby, Doug Christy, Pagestoyakovic teams
of the early two thousands, whichwere excellent, one of my favorite NBA
teams ever. And then kind ofnow right, I mean, they really
haven't been relevant on an NBA leveluntil now, but they still got an
arena built. They were able tostay there, even though there were some
talks that maybe they wouldn't be ableto survive in Sacramento. Size of Sacramento,

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what do you think? Hmm?People four hundred thousand, five hundred
twenty eight, Okay, you knowwhat, Omahi is more than that.
Not well, in our surrounding areait is, but but the city itself,
it's four eighty five. Okay,but that's comparable, Yeah, very
close, it's comparable. You talkabout Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, how

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many people, I'd guess right aroundthere. Maybe it's a little more.
It's six ninety four. Okay,Okay, I'm Memphis. The Memphis Grizzlies
are a team. What the cityof Memphis? What do you think,
hm, eight hundred thousand, sixtwenty okay, six twenty. What's the
surrounding area? Though? Yeah,but that's not what we're talking about here.

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We're talking about the city, right, because that's what who's going to
really support the team? You can'trely on people that can only go to
one or two games a year aslike how you're going to support the team.
Okay, how about Portland, Oregon? I got the Blazers. Yeah,
kind of lower than four hundred somewhereit's six thirty. These are all
around the same area and Omaha,and especially if you count Council Bluffs and

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a lot of these burbs you're talkingabout, you know, five five point
fifty. You're in the same vicinityas they are, Okay, and that's
my point, right, you don'thave to be a gigantic city to support
a team like this. So Susanemailed in and said, I didn't Omaha
have a professional basketball team in yearspast, but couldn't get anybody interested so
they left. And the answer isyes, that actually did happen. There

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was an NBA team that was sharedhere in Omaha with Kansas City, and
that's the Kings, who we justtalked about surviving in Sacramento for forty years
now and counting, and they're goingto be there forever now that they built
that arena forum. This was ahorrible idea. This was a team that

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was previously in Cincinnati. They werethe Cincinnati Royals, came to Oma or
came to Kansas City, had tochange their name to the Kings to not
compete and be the same as theKansa City or who already existed. But
they moved to Kansas City and thenstarted to play some home games pretty much
immediately in the Omaha Civic Auditorium.About nine thousand people could sit there.

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It didn't go so great. Attendancewas low. The team stunk best player
they ever had when they played inKansas City and Omaha was Nate Archibald.
I think the second best is ScottWedman probably it's a great last name for
a King player. Archibald, Yeah, tiny, tiny Archibald. Yeah.

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They were awful. They in theNBA didn't know how to market until when,
not until the eighties. That wasbird magic, right, Yeah,
and then Jordan comes along and thenthe rest of them. Right. The
NBA had no idea what it wasdoing and playing just like ten or twelve
home games a year in Omaha andno playoff games when they did make the
playoffs. That didn't help, Likehow is that? How are you going

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to build a base in Omaha?They didn't give it a good go.
It is what I'm saying. Yeah, And it feels a little bit like
apples and oranges if you're talking aboutback then versus now the NBA in the
seventies when this was happening to whatis the NBA now? We just talked
about like five markets that aren't thatmuch bigger than Omaha supporting a team like
this, and I think Omaha isa different place. I don't argue from

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authority. I wasn't around back then. But look at how we support Creighton
and pack that stadium top ten inattendance, the Omaha Supernovas, Like,
isn't that? Are we not payingattention there? Right? Are we not
paying attention to what exactly is happeningthere? We're talking about professional volleyball,
all due respect to the sport ofvolleyball. How far down the list of

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major sports professional sporting events would yougo to? Okay? And if you
throw college in there, college volleyballcertainly would be higher, College basketball will
be higher if you like you andO, college hockey's probably higher. You
would never have thought professional volleyball that'sgonna work. And yet that product is
so good, But and people aretrying to support it. Eleven to twelve

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thousand every game, every match,they are doubling what the Oakland Athletics are
drawing right now. And I knowthat they've chased away all their fans,
But think about that, Okay,I think Omaha would have if they started
the idea of we need surrogate citiesto bridge the gap between teams that are
either unhappy or can't figure out theirown market and what they can do until

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we find a permanent market for them. It worked for Oklahoma City to get
them the Oklahoma City Thunder. Couldthat happen to Omaha? Now? We
talked about this facility that has beenproposed just outside of town and Gretna NHL
and USA Volleyball is kind of whatthe plan is, and the NHL might
be a more viable product to livehere and maybe support. But the idea

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that we're thinking about this is donewith the idea that this could happen,
and I think it could. Ithink it's something that we monitor. We
got to monitor the Sacramento thing,because if it could happen there, it
could happen here. And that's allI'm saying. We just need the proper
facilities. I mean, you couldhave made the argument to them that hey,

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you should just move here and playin Omaha because we have the College
World Series facility. Now, obviously, competing with that would be a massive
issue and probably wouldn't happen. Butthat facility, if it's good enough for
the College World Series, certainly couldbe good enough to house a temporary major
league team and show them these majorsports leagues at Omaha. Actually, they

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would support something if we wanted toput it there. The conversation also has
shifted in the emails to a fewdifferent people saying this Kansas City thing,
which the Chiefs are like the dominantfranchise in the NFL and one of the
bigger growing sports brands in the worldthanks to Patrick Mahomes Andy Reid and their

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success over the last handfull of yearsin the Royals while they've been pretty terrible
the last handful of years. Atthe same time they share that area by
Arrowhead Stadium. I'm trying to findwhat the story is with this because the

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voters have voted down a plan thatcould help them either renovate Arrowhead and move
the Royals downtown where they want tobe, and the voters in their county
said, nah, not real interestedAnd what could possibly be leveraged out of
this? And with proximity, couldOmaha also be a factor there in some
way? These are things to talkabout. If you have thoughts on it,

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please send them to us Emory atkfabatdot com. You want to talk
about it, you can four two, five, five, eight eleven ten
is the phone number. Talk moreabout this and also this story about the
women's national soccer team in the UnitedStates already polarizing, but now they're getting
polarizing with each other. That's nexton news Radio eleven to ten KFA.
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Yeah, we were talking about stadiums. Paul emailed in back in the
early sixties, the Dallas Texans rememberthem? Yes, I don't, not
literally, I just remember hearing aboutthem. I read a lot of like
football history books. My local libraryshouts out to the Kilgore Library nice in

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York, Nebraska. They had awhole bunch of these full color picture football
books that were from the sixties,seventies, and eighties that I would check
those things out on the regular andI would take them out team by team
and read up on the history ofeach team. So that is how I
know about the Dallas Texans. Andso which book would Dallas Texans have been

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I think they had a Dallas Texansbook. When did they stop being a
franchise? It may have been theChiefs and then they just start heard there.
They started in Dallas as the Texans, right, and Paul reminds us
they looked very hard at Saint Louisand Omaha for the new home. Oh
now, I don't know about theSaint Louis part of that, because the
Saint Louis Cardinals just had become athing and they were trying to protect certain

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markets. The Dallas Texans were aflThey eventually moved to Kansas City become the
Chiefs. But Omaha had the biggestcity limits of all three of the cities
they were looking at, but nosuitable stadium at the time. Rosenblat was
the closest thing they had, andobviously that wasn't good for football. Even
though it was different times in KansasCity won because they had the old municipal

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stadium in downtown Kansas City. Paulsays, proving again, build it and
it will come, and they willcome. And they did come a lot.
And guess what what four super Bowlsnow in Kansas City, three in
the last four years, and thenthey won one in the seventies. Was

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it late like seventy like right onseventy again? Correct? Who went to
like four Super Bowls in the seventiesand lost them all? Yeah? Uh?
Anyway back to the point here,why are we talking about this because
Kansas City now is having their ownsort of kind of meltdown about how to

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fund new stadiums because everybody wants newstadiums. Matt, take two. I
got two Major League Baseball teams foryou. The Atlanta Braves who played at
Turner Field for how long? Along time, no, like twenty two
years or something, and then theybuilt a new stadium, which I think

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they call it Trust or sun Trustor something. Oh, Truest Park,
I think is the name of it. And that opened like right before the
pandemic or whatever. The Texas Rangers, how long do they play at their
stadium I don't know, like twentyfive years, and built this new fangled

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retractable roof one because they didn't havea retractable roof on the other one.
So the old stadium now is thehome of the Arlington Renegades of the ufl
Okay these big markets Atlanta, Arlingtonis Dallas area, and the new Rangers
one is like right next to JerryWorld, the Cowboys Stadium. And I'm

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just sitting here, I'm looking atthis and I'm saying, Wow, what
are some of the old stadiums thatprobably need to get renovated? Would Arrowhead
kind of fall under that I thinkit would. Arrowhead's been there for a
long time, yep. I meanthey built Arrowhead pretty quickly after the Chiefs
got there, and it's just beenthere and been kind of the mecca for

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Midwestern football since they got there.I mean, all due respect to the
other Midwestern teams. I mean,Lambeau is really old, but they've done
some renovation on that over the years. But that's kind of like regular or
Finway. You just don't want totouch it too awful much because you don't
want to ruin the whole vibe,right, I mean, Regularly has done

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a lot of renovations, but itstill feels like Regularly when you go there.
I bring this up because it wasa sales tax ish to sales tax
issue that is going to prevent thesestadiums from moving forward with their plans.
Now, this happened yesterday, thereport coming from all angles because the Chiefs

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and the Royals are having an issuetrying to figure out where this funding is
going to come from. First ofall, where are you at on this?
Does the public have a responsibility tofund this stuff through taxes? Or
are these billionaires that on these teams? Should they build their own stadiums like
Cronky did in La. Yeah,it seems because some guys have done that.

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Some guys have just like footed thebill for the stadium. Yeah,
but more more often than not,they try to get some public funding and
like, okay, so yeah,we had the soccer stadium talking about stuff
here, and they're like wanning twentyfive million dollars of like public funding that's
already kind of allocated. We're talkinglike the forty years worth of a sales

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tax potentially that would consistently be helpingto pay for what this was. Where
you out on this, Well,I don't I certainly don't like it.
I think that it's taking should thebillionaires? Should the billionaires pay for their
own stadiums? I understand that it'sa leverage play on their part. You

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know, the community does get stuffout of it, Yeah, and they
can. You know, it doesseem extremely greedy, but what else is
new a billionaire being greedy. That'show he got there, you know,
he or she. So I don'tknow. I think that it bums me
out that this is how it works. It does seem unfair to just you

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know, common citizen who already dolesout thousands and thousands of dollars to go
to an NFL game every season ifthey go to them consistently. How many
how many NFL games do you affordto go to because we don't live I
mean, I guess we're two hourstwo and a half hours away from Kansas
City. Yeah, how often doyou do you get to go to a

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game? I've never been. Haveyou been in an NFL game before?
No? Never, I've never beento a Well, welcome to life away
from these giant markets, right,and you know how much it would cost
us to go A lot, alot of money, Yeah, between the
ticket and this is why I've youwant to know why we go to soccer
matches now a lot, because there'smore of them and they are affordable.

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Right, it's a fun atmosphere.And guess what they're affordable now. There's
never been a better time for theownership of the Kansas City Chiefs to leverage
power play big leverage play. Rememberthe stats we saw about how much just
money was generated just generally from theChiefs with the whole Taylor Swift thing and

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everything. Oh yeah, and they'resaying there's millions of dollars. Yeah,
like you want us to take thisincredible show and side show that the whole
world is paying attention to. SoI got and we got a team that
could be like competitive for Super Bowlsfor the next ten years. The bummer
is that you're punishing the fans.Oh, but that's they don't care.

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They don't care because where the fan'sgonna go, Matt, They're gonna treat
them like Oakland. They're gonna justturn them off like Oakland. I don't
think it's gonna work that way fora team like this. Would you how
do you all feel about this?Because this was would be a Greta NHL
question, this would be a questionabout anything else. Are you okay with
this? Because now the owners inpresident of the Chiefs and the Royals,

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they're basically saying, we're not surewhat the future holds for our stadiums because
we need to either upgrade or fixKaufman and Arrowhead, and the Royals basically
said we're trying to move anyway todowntown. They already have the renderings.
They want to move downtown because theythink that would be better for them,
and the Chiefs are like, hey, if they move downtown, we're gonna
knock down Kaufman and turn this intolike a way more awesome thing. But

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that's like in tandem with what they'redoing, and you gotta fun both of
them, and they didn't. Theyvoted it down. Where are you at
on this? Is it worth losingyour team over this? I guess we're
gonna find out. You can callus a four h two five to five
eight eleven ten. Four h twofive five eight eleven ten, News Radio
eleven ten KFAB and Ree Sell onnews Radio eleven ten KFAB. Would they

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really consider moving the Chiefs and Royalsout of Kansas City because they didn't get
this or are they just leveraging theirpower right now? And are you okay
with having to foot the bill fora lot of these stadiums? Not just
in Omaha? Obviously we're talking moregenerally because really every city really only needs
to do one of these. Butthat's the point, that's what we're talking

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about. Four h two five tofive eight eleven ten. Four h two
five to five eight eleven ten.We got Paul on the line. Paul,
thanks for the call. What doyou think about this? Yeah?
Thanks, Emory. You know,the first things on the tax it's the
continuation of an existing tax. Sometimesthat's kind of hard to find in the
reporting on this. So the JacksonCounty citizens are already paying this tax,

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so that the vote was do youwant to keep paying this tax once it
expires, which is at some pointin the future, and they wouldn't know
on that, So I think that'sjust a quick point of clarity. But
the second thing I want to sayis I think it's totally absurd that the
tax payers would pay for the renovationsor even the building of a brand news
stadium exclusively by themselves. I thinkthat it should always be a combination of

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the owner of the team, who'slikely ability and there in any sports league,
right, and the taxpayers. Andone of the things with this Kansas
City story that I don't think theydid a very good job of, at
least in Omaha. Right didn't makeit to me in Omaha is making it
clear that the Hunt family was goingto put up three hundred million dollars of
their own money to help renovate Arrowhead, And to me, that seems pretty

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fair. I still would probably bea coin flip on if I was going
to vote yes or no to it, but at least it had that component
of, yeah, the owners aregoing to put some of their own money
into this thing. It's not goingto be entirely on the tax. And
then because that is a total scam, right, and the Royals, for
their part, they want to buildan entirely new stadium, so it's going
to be way more expensive. Butthey already said that they'd at least pledge

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one billion of the dollars from theirownership group too, So it's not like,
yeah, so you're right on that, Paul, But I guess the
question is, like you said,you're kind of down the mill on whether
or not that's still fair. Islike it push comes to shove and they
say, hey, take it orleave it. This team could potentially move
if we don't pass this, oryou just go ahead and keep paying the

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sales tex and you know your team'sgoing to stay here forever. Where would
you vote? Yeah, So,both of my brothers actually live in Kansas
City. They're both big Royals andespecially Chiefs fans, and they both said
that this vote. Possibly the reasonwhy I didn't pass is because the plans
weren't clear enough about what they weregoing to do with this specifically on the

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Royal side, that it was justa little too vague. You've probably seen
the mock ups. I've seen themock up of how that stadium would look
downtown. It looks cool. I'mnot going to deny that, sure,
but they said that it was justtoo vague, and that's why they both
thought that it didn't pass. Oneof them lives on the Kansas side,
but the other one's a Jackson Countyresident, and he's saying, look,
these guys need to put forth abetter effort if they want us to continue

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this tax, paying this tax tofund the stadiums. And you know,
they're both huge fans, so I'ma little surprised that they said that,
But I think it's a positive trendthat guys like them are starting to think
like that, and that the ownersare starting to put in some of their
own money too, because having thetaxpayers put the bill entirely by themselves is
honestly, it's absurd, and I'mso glad that that was not the case

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here at least of the chiefs.Hey, Paul appreciation, Yeah, no
problem, thanks for calling, Thanksfor listening to us today. Paul number
two another Paul on the line,Paul, thanks for joining the show today.
What do you got? Well,you know, he was writing a
lot of points. The point aboutthe vagueness of the offer you know,
the Royals put up was the mayordidn't want Oak Street closed down there.

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Well three days three days before thevote, they came off with a new
rendition of what it would be,you know, So that's they didn't have
Plan D and the voters didn't likethat. You know, even though it's
only three eight to the sense asales tact, it's not that much.
Right, would you pay it?I would, but you know, because

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they're gonna put money and the ownerthey're gonna put money in. Yeah,
but what they got to be carefulfor down there in Kansas City is John
Sherman, the owner of the Royals, who's from Kansas City, he was
born and raised there, has saidthat they will not play past nineteenth or
Tree John thirty in Royal Stadium.So there has to be something else done
or they're gone. It's a teamlike cities like Montreal. They're looking for

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a team, Charlotte, Nashville.I mean, the list goes on and
on and on, and I mean, you can't you can't rule yeah exactly,
and you can't rule out a placelike Omaha too that if you just
put one of the four major sportshere, much like Oklahoma City, I
think it could have a chance toprosper. I'm just throwing that out there
too. Hey, Paul, appreciatethe call. Thank you so much for

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listening. All Right, anybody elsewho wants to call in on this,
you can four h two five fiveeight to eleven ten. Do you would
you pay to keep your team?Would you pay a sales tax that would
help build a new stadium that youcould help enjoy and you would know that
your kids and your grandkids would beable to enjoy and support that team.
It's very interesting, and it's funnybecause a lot of the people that would

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go to the stadium wouldn't be onit wouldn't have to foot the bill,
right because it's there in Jackson County. It's pretty interesting. More on the
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