The Royals and Chiefs made a joint statement today about the stadium situations for both teams in Jackson County. In short, they announced they’d do exactly what we have all known they wanted to do if the county would do what the teams wanted them to do. The Chiefs would like to renovate Arrowhead and stay there. The Royals would like to move downtown. They want the county to extend the 3/8 cents sales tax.
So that’s the part we have known. But, finally, there is more to the announcement. The teams said that if the county votes to approve an extension of the sales tax they will agree to pay for the stadiums’ insurance, which the county currently pays, and they will agree to a language change that would allow the county to spend overages on things other than the stadiums, which currently isn’t allowed.