Wife Of Royals’ Owner Says Their Team And The Chiefs Are Done With Kansas City, At Least In Missouri

Marny Sherman, the wife of Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman, says their Major League Baseball team and the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs are through with Kansas City, Missouri after a failed vote to provide them with stadium money.

She also said that once all is said and done, the best area residents can hope for is that the teams will only move to the Kansas side of the border.

Commenting on a Facebook post decrying the failed vote, Marny Sherman wrote, “Unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again.

“The lack of leadership has lost the city two treasured assets. I mean if you don’t support the Chiefs after 3 Super Bowl wins why would they stay? We will be lucky if both teams wind up in Kansas. At least still in the area!”

The vote that failed by a 58%-42% margin would have extended a 3/8 cent sales tax that was instituted in 2006 to help the Chiefs renovate Arrowhead Stadium and provide the Royals with money to build a new stadium.

The Chiefs’ and Royals’ current leases at the Truman Sports Complex will expire in 2031 and Chiefs CEO and chairman Clark Hunt has already stated that without additional funding the team would not sign a lease for another 25 years.

“Some are having buyers remorse on their NO vote,” Marny Sherman added in another Facebook comment.

In August of 2023, the Royals announced plans to build a new $2 billion stadium in either East Village or North Kansas City.

In February, the Chiefs unveiled their plans for a “reimagined” Arrowhead Stadium that would have cost around $800 million.

Now, politicos in Kansas and in Dallas are trying to woo the Royals and Chiefs respectively to move to their locales.

“Jackson County fumbled. Now there will be a mad scramble for the ball and we’re in the best position for a scoop and score,” former Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. told the Kansas City Star.

The Chiefs were founded in 1959 as the Dallas Texans as a member of the American Football League, relocating to Kansas City in 1963 where they have played ever since.