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November 17, 2005
NFL dangles Super Carrot for K.C.
Kansas City Chiefs board chair Clark Hunt added a new stadium demand this week - a retractable roof, to cost between $100 million and $200 million - and the NFL was right there to back him up: If K.C. builds a roof, the league vowed, it would get the Super Bowl in either 2015 or 2017. NFL commish Paul Tagliabue has previously dangled Super Bowls as an incentive for new stadiums in San Diego, Minnesota, Indianapolis, and New York - so far he's batting one for four.
The Royals, meanwhile, who would share the roof - apparently it would retract all the way from the Chiefs' stadium to the Royals' digs next door - want nothing to do with the idea. Or, at least, want nothing to do with helping pay for it. "Any money we have available needs to be directed toward making the team better," team president Dan Glass told the K.C. Star. "Not toward bricks and mortar. If thereís private funding available for the project, thatís fine. But we need to put our resources into building a better team on the field." The Royals are trying to put a better team on the field? Who knew?
