Of course, taxing out-of-state companies might cause them to take their business elsewhere.

This is Kansas after all. Nothing they do makes much sense. I sure how they pick an intelligent design for the rolling roof though.

And by how, I meant hope.

"This is Kansas after all."

Actually the Royals are in Kansas City Missouri...

Same principle anyway...

Our Hawai'i politicians do the same thing. "What the heck, raise the excise tax. Visitors will pay a lot of it."

Right. But those who are here 52 weeks a year will pay a lot more of it.

I would prefer the voters of Jackson County turn down the tax increase at the polls, which would then cause Lamar Hunt to threaten to move the Chiefs to another city (such as Los Angeles?). The day he does that, the Jackson County Stadium Commission should contact Al Davis and offer Arrowhead's 80,000 sold-out seats to the Raiders. My guess is that Al would jump on the offer (especially after seeing a half-empty Oakland Coliseum during their final home game on TV).

BRING ON THE RAIDERS!

All those Chiefs' fans turning into Raiders' fans overnight? Won't that cause things like the earth's magnetic poles to flip?

like football teams aren't mostly different players every year with all that "parity"

who cares what the unis look like

"Nothing they do makes much sense. I sure how they pick an intelligent design for the rolling roof though."

perhaps you should have picked a better english teacher, but i digress...

forget about the science standards argument. there are wacko politicians in every state. and the idea of bringing the Raiders to KC? talk about wacko...real Chiefs fans do care about the uniforms, especially when you consider they are virtually unchanged since 1963. can you say "classic"?

the rolling roof idea is off the wall, for sure. but so was the idea of a "small town" like KC building 2 stadiums in the late '60's. and while i like the idea of a downtown ballpark in KC a make-over for both stadiums at the complex make sense. it's still a one of a kind facility in that it was a 2 stadium complex from its inception. it wasn't pieced together. and the roof was part of the original design. i say the roof makes the complex viable for at least another 30 years. by that time it'll be time to replace both stadiums most likely. and we haven't even addressed the Super Bowl and it's estimated $400-million infusion into the economy, or the fact that a climate controlled Arrowhead will bring Big 12 football title games and Final Fours back to KC on a regular basis. think, people...

now, let's talk about the Royals for a minute. this one is touchy since they've sucked for a while, and i'm a fan from way back. but KC is just another Omaha, Des Moines or (dare i say it) Wichita without MLB. and i would have loved to have had that roof roll over Royals Stadium on those blistering Sunday afternoons in August back in the '80's when they had that damn astroturf radiating heat back into the stands. anyway, if you ever been to a Royals or Chiefs game, you know the concourses are way too small by todays standards. that would be my only bitch about the stadiums. they simply should have been made bigger in the first place.

i also agree the people of Jackson County have every right to vote this down. if that happens, look for the Royals downtown at Hallmark Park and the Chiefs at the new "Speedway Stadium" (or whatever corporate name you want to put on it). for that matter, we could expand the minor league ballpark at the Speedway, too...hell, we'll take both teams.

then who'll be laughing at Kansas?

"Nothing they (Kansans) do makes much sense. I sure how they pick an intelligent design for the rolling roof though."

yeah, right...Kansas Speedway didn't make much sense, huh? (perhaps you should have picked a better english teacher, but i digress...)

can you really be so stupid to think that just because somebody lives in one state or another you can judge their intelligence? maybe if all the organized crime hadn't taken over KC, Mo. back in the day we wouldn't be having this conversation. why do you think there were strikes and construction delays during building of the Truman Sports Complex? delays that pushed the price tag to a point that the original rolling roof had to be scrapped? coincidence?? you tell me...

forget about the science standards argument. there are wacko politicians in every state. and the idea of bringing the Raiders to KC? talk about wacko...AND, REAL Chiefs fans do care about the uniforms, especially when you consider they are virtually unchanged since 1963. can you say "classic"?

the rolling roof idea is off the wall, for sure. but so was the idea of a "small town" like KC building 2 stadiums in the late '60's. and while i like the idea of a downtown ballpark in KC a make-over for both stadiums at the complex make sense. it's still a one of a kind facility in that it was a 2 stadium complex from its conception. it wasn't pieced together. and the roof was part of the original design. i say the roof makes the complex viable for at least another 30 years. by that time it'll be time to replace both stadiums most likely. and we haven't even addressed the Super Bowl and it's estimated $400-million infusion into the economy, or the fact that a climate controlled Arrowhead will bring Big 12 football title games and Final Fours back to KC on a regular basis. think, people...the damn roof pays for itself!

now, let's talk about the Royals for a minute. this one is touchy since they've sucked for a while, and i'm a fan from way back. but KC is just another Omaha, Des Moines or (dare i say it) Wichita without MLB. (ok, maybe a stretch, but you get my drift.) and i would have loved to have had that roof roll over Royals Stadium on those blistering Sunday afternoons in August back in the '80's when they had that damn astroturf radiating heat back into the stands. anyway, if you ever been to a Royals or Chiefs game, you know the concourses are way too small by todays standards. that would be my only bitch about the stadiums. they simply should have been made bigger in the first place.

i also agree the people of Jackson County have every right to vote this down. if that happens, look for the Royals downtown at Hallmark Park and the Chiefs at the new "Speedway Stadium" (or whatever corporate name you want to put on it). or better still, there's a minor league park at the Speedway right now that would be simple enough to expand. hell, we'll take both teams.

then who'll be laughing at Kansas? ("Gee, Toto...all I hear is crickets..")