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Next card in stadium campaign: The Roof
November 16, 2005 |
A day after Mike Smith went on the offensive against Downtown baseball, Lamar Hunt turn up the stadium renovation campaign another notch by getting a commitment to the often-dangled KC Superbowl. The NFL is now promising us a Superbowl if the Truman Sports Complex gets a rolling roof, which would add $100-200 million to the $465 million renovation proposal and push the total cost well over the failed Bistate 2 plan. The roof is also supposed to attract Final Four tournaments to Arrowhead…
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I remember very clearly (as a Jackson-countian) after the rolling roof was cancelled, an engineer explaining a study showing why the rolling roof as proposed would not work. Why? The open end could catch the wind and, under just the right ocnditions, function as a wind tunnel and carry high pop fly or high punt far out into the parking lot.
So if they are still talking about a rolling roof over both stadia, the potential problem remains. If they are talking about a fixed roof over Chief’s stadium only, then it is no engineering problem. It is merely a financial boondoggle.
The first commenter is right, I’ve remember how it was discovered that the rolling roof plan wouldn’t work.
Additionally, a promise from the NFL doesn’t mean anything. Ask the people of Baltimore. Years ago the NFL promised they wouldn’t let the Colts leave. Subsequently, the team packed up in the middle of the night and took off. Now all is well because they have scumbag Ray Lewis and his posse but for awhile Baltimore was a city of hurt feelings when it came to football.
Read the article. It states that for the Super Bowl they have to provide climate control, not just rain/snow protection as was called for in the original roof.
This means that the roof will have doors at both ends that will close to make the thing air tight. Essentially you would have the entire four-walled shell of a stadium that would slide back and forth to enclose the current open-top stadiums.
Just another nail in the coffin to move the team to KCK. Do you really think Arrowhead needs $300 million in improvements to begin with? Few of the NFL stadiums built in the last 8 years cost less than $300 million. KC has denied improvements of significantly less the last few elections… no way they will agree to a $300 million… let alone another $200 for a roll-away roof.
And yes, buy the looks of the diagrams it won’t take a real strong wind to really screw over the roof and the stadium.
After watching Phil Witt insist Jackson County voters approve the stadium improvement tax, I’m conviced this is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
We start with stadium improvements, then we’ll need to expand Bartle Hall for the “NFL Experience,” then we’ll have offer TIF financing for more hotel rooms downtown … All of which drives up the cost to taxpayers. And for what? One game? A couple of weeks of increased tourism?
And will the Superbowl ever come back? Not likely. Early February in KC is … grim. Why hold it here when you could be in South Florida, or California or Arizona.
Perhaps, the Chiefs should move to KCK, and let WyCo foot the bill. This deal is too hard to swallow.
The roof, the roof, the roof is a pipedream. We don’t need reality, let the mother f—- burn!
MesoEd,
I think it is HIGHLY unlikely that the Kansas side is going to offer the Chiefs the $500m or so it would take to lure the Chiefs. If that was even possible, I think the Chiefs would have brought it up by now.
I’m with prm who commented above that this whole idea is “fucking crazy.” I can’t believe that anyone is going to take this idea too seriously.
It’s both crazy and stupid. Kansas can’t afford the team, not enough population.
I could understand needing repairs on the stadiums, but a rolling roof sure takes the cake!
I severely doubt us in WyCo would want to foot the bill for that roof (even if the Chiefs were to move to KCK).
The roof is a WANT, not a NEED. A rolling roof isn’t a necessary repair.
QED
No way will a roof, much less a Super Bowl, ever happen at Arrowhead. The Chiefs know this and the NFL knows this. It is merely a showing of respect to Lamar Hunt for all he has done for the league over the years. He’s not going to be around much longer, so this was a just nice gesture to essentially say “Thanks for the memories”.