- Kansas City has a name for its new Arena Football League team. It's the Kansas City Brigade. Uh… ok. Their logo is a B-2 Stealth Bomber. I kinda understand the stealth connection, the B-2s are based at Whiteman Air Force Base, just an hour and a half from KC. But why the Brigade? A brigade is a unit of 3000 Army soldiers. Why is that a good name for a team with an Air Force bomber as a mascot? And there are no major Army bases in KC to warrant an Army connection (Ft Riley, Ks is a few hours away, far enough to be rarely associated with Kansas City). I guess I just don't get it.
- I should count my blessings however; they almost called that team the Brush Creekers! What?!?! I personally liked the Sizzlers (we have a minor league baseball team called the T-Bones). Mmmm… now I'm hungry.
- KU lost their first game tonight. But they were playing a good Arizona team and actually tied the game in the second half. Oh well. Everybody expected the Jayhawks to lose because they're so young. Most of the team is composed of Freshmen and sophomores.
- Do I smell conspiracy? Doesn't it seem strange that the NFL would offer KC a Superbowl conditional upon an overpriced remodeling of one of the league's oldest stadiums? And the Chiefs claim to be for it?! $700 million for a remodeling job? A SuperBowl is only a $400 million windfall – maybe. And this "rolling roof" thing? To make it climate controlled would mean adding temporary sides which could take a few months to construct. That's too long to not interfere with the Chiefs regular season games and too expensive to build for weekend conventions. The Royals don't want it, so this roof would only be used the one time! Ugh! A new retractable roof stadium, which can open and close in fifteen minutes, would not cost as much as this renovation! But maybe that's the point… I'm suspicious that the NFL and the Chiefs actually want Kansas City to build a new stadium. This rolling roof talk is just a red herring that makes a new stadium look like a good idea.
- It looks like the downtown baseball stadium is dead for now. A major meeting was canceled today due to lack of political support and Jackson County voted today to only spend money on Kaufman stadium improvements. Oh well. I would personally love to see the Royals downtown and a new Arrowhead built where Kaufman is now. That way downtown businesses benefits, the Royals draw more interest, the Chiefs get a new stadium, Jackson County keeps and improves the Truman Sports Complex, and best of all, sports fans win big. But no, that would make too much sense.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Random Sports Thoughts 11/21/05
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The truth comes out...
Actually, I heard that the director of the Jackson County Sports Authority scheduled the "downtown baseball" forum tentatively for next Tuesday, so that politicians could hear the argument for downtown baseball. The problem was-- he scheduled it less than a week ago, and scheduled it on the week of Thanksgiving. Everyone knows that they have special interests in keeping the teams at the complex and not moving them downtown, and this idiot director intentionally scheduled a meeting on short notice and on the same week as a major holiday!! There was plenty of interest in attending and making the argument for this case, but when he was told that there wasn't enough time to schedule and bring the appropriate people to KC with such short notice and on a holiday week, he reportedly said, "I don't care." Hmmm...
The arguments for downtown baseball are so overwhelmingly good, how could you seriously think that it's not a positive thing for KC. The negators that argue against it rarely quote facts in the feeble attempts to explain why they think it wouldn't be good, it's always based on, "I think..." or "I've heard..." Everybody who has attended a downtown baseball stadium LOVES IT. If we're going to spend $300 million to renovate the old stadium anyway, why not spend that same money on a downtown stadium? Renovating the old stadium will be throwing our money away when compared to building downtown; our money will be an investment if we spend it downtown b/c people will develop around it! Here is a short article about it-- http://kcmetrosports.com/articles/article.asp?aid=1882&full=-1 ... you can see how everyone against it is only looking at the short term and thinks that everyone for going downtown has a vested interest. Hello?! Ofcourse they do!! They're business people and it's a good business decision! God forbid someone besides Jackson county profit from a new stadium!!! Isn't that what we want? We want a return on our tax money!! If we spend $300 million on renovating the old stadium, very little will change about the area around the complex. No one wants to develop around the Truman Sports Complex! It's been there for THRITY YEARS and we have a Denny's and a motel. Woohoo... But, we already have development moving forward downtown at a good pace, and we could spend nearly the SAME $$$ and our taxes will go so much further with all of the windfall of development and tax base increase that will naturally occur!! IT JUST MAKES SENSE. If you're against it, DO YOUR HOMEWORK and you'll end up talking yourself right out of your own argument. It's almost impossible not to.
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