“We play to win, which is why Dallas was named the top sports city in the United States.”-Dallas Mayor

It’s difficult to accept that the Kansas City Chiefs, the reigning Super Bowl champions, are considering moving, but that’s exactly what they are.

 

Voters in Jackson County, Missouri defeated a sales tax plan on Tuesday night, which would have contributed to the construction of a new ballpark for the MLB’s Kansas City Royals and significant repairs to Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs were expecting to use public cash to help support the $800 million project, as they had already committed $300 million in private funds to the improvements.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson believes that the NFL’s recently crowned dynasty deserves a homecoming. Recall that the Chiefs relocated to Kansas City three years after starting as the Dallas Texans of the AFL in 1960. Johnson resumed his campaign on Wednesday morning after posting an article with the title, “Welcome home, Dallas Texans! #CottonBowl,” following Tuesday night’s news.

 

Johnson told The Dallas Morning News in a statement on Wednesday, “We play to win, which is why Dallas was named the top sports city in the United States.”

“Our market is large enough, expanding enough, and passionate about football enough to support a second NFL team—especially a franchise (and an owner) with significant roots here,” the statement reads.

 

Johnson has already advocated for an expansion franchise and it is evident that he thinks his city can handle two NFL teams. But is it really possible to compete so closely with America’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys? To that, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys, can only say, “no.”

The kind of value that the game and the NFL receive from having [the] Dallas Cowboys as one of its marquee teams—and again, logic tells you [the NFL] wouldn’t want to water that down—means that you can be rest assured that you would not have the NFL supporting another team, Jones stated in a June 2022 interview with The Dallas Morning News.

 

Little indicates that the Chiefs are even thinking about returning to Dallas, since the most popular relocation option is for them to simply relocate to the Kansas side of the region. Furthermore, their stadium lease is not due to expire until 2031, thus they are not in a tight spot.

But until a settlement is reached, Johnson will probably keep running for a second NFL team in Washington, D.C., if nothing else but attention.

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