‘Pay for your own damn stadium’… Mike Florio suggests what Kansas City Chiefs will be told

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The Kansas City Chiefs have off-field issues away from the grass in the offseason and have just been given a major boost in their effort to stay in Missouri.

Team President Mark Donovan spearheaded a campaign for a sales-tax extension that would see the Jackson County residents fund the key stadium renovations needed to bring Arrowhead into the modern era.

Clark Hunt sought after the taxpayers’ money to fund the project but the residents disapproved of the request and voted against the proposal.

Therefore, the franchise has now been set on exploring other options and has been given the first greenlight that a state move could be on the cards.

Kansas City Chiefs handed encouragement that the team could find a new home in Kansas

The Kansas House supported the STAR Bond proposal that will fund the collaborative move of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals across state lines.

Ultimately, the bill passing has handed the Chiefs the ultimate leverage to say to Missouri, ‘Look we have another state willing to fund our dream’.

Therefore, Clark Hunt and his executives can now return to the bargaining table with the state and leverage a deal for them to remain in Missouri.

Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio previously bashed the owner for requesting tax funding for stadium plans and encouraged him to ‘sell the team’.

Mike Florio believes the state says ‘Pay for your own damn stadium’

In the wake of the STAR Bond passing the first stage of the legislative process, the NFL expert has shed some light on why Missouri has no incentive to share its finances.

“It’s very fair and appropriate, and not uncommon for the state to say to NFL owners, ‘Pay for your own damn stadium’,” he explained on NFL on NBC.

Furthermore, from the state perspective, he proclaimed: “You don’t need our money, we need our money, we have citizens who need that money. They don’t derive anything from saying we have a football stadium.”

Missouri wants to use its money for its citizens and not an NFL team

In a time of economic uncertainty, Florio suggests that the state has no motivation to help fund a multi-billion dollar owner’s dream.

However, the state is in an unfortunate situation, where they do not want to sanction the tax extension but another state is happy to oblige, it just so happens to be their neighbor in Kansas.

The NFL has a notorious history of owners moving their stadiums across The States due to money-orientated reasons.

The Chiefs only have to look back as far as 2020 when their AFC West rival the then-Oakland Raiders moved to Las Vegas.