Upgrading Kansas City

[Bill Lacey]

As a Chiefs fan, I'm really looking forward to this project.

http://kcchiefs.com/news/2007/08/15/...new_arrowhead/

Looks way better than what the Bears did to their POS stadium (take that Greg!).

[J.Buesking]

I grew up there and there the only sport's team I've ever followed. I really don't anymore but used to.

[butcher]

Now they just need a new team to go with their new stadium.LOL

[Bill Lacey]

41 new faces on the team in the past two years. Not new enough for you?

[butcher]

That may be a good start, but look out for the Steelers this year.

[gburnet]

As a Chiefs fan, I'm really looking forward to this project.

http://kcchiefs.com/news/2007/08/15/...new_arrowhead/

Looks way better than what the Bears did to their POS stadium (take that Greg!).

You'll get no argument from me. Soldier Field was an architectural gem before Daley & his team of hack architects permanently disfigured it & disgraced the city by landing an alien spaceship on the 50 yard line. I'm still waiting for the ship to take off & bring Daley back to wherever he came from.

[m beezo]

I do not recall the excact date but on a double date in Kansas City we drove out to Arrowhead Stadium and somehow found a gate that was not latched very well. Or the fact that I was much thinner then I was able to squeeze thru and we walked down onto the field. Someone in the group had a camera and took our picture on the 50 yard line. Have no idea where the picture is now. As far as I know it might have been before it opened althought I am not sure. Was around 73,74.

Never been to a game, that was my only time there.

Oh by the way, I ended up marrying that girl...toghether now for 32 years.

[Bill Lacey]

I'm going to take my wife there this year for the KC vs. Packer game. I told some of the guys on defense at training camp to make up Fav-re's mind about retirement.

The single greatest sporting event I have ever been to was the KC/Raider game on x-mas a few years ago. Even brought the kid with (4yrs old, but we said he was 3 so he didn't need a ticket). It came right down to the last few seconds of the game and the entire stadium went nuts. Tynes "finally" made a field goal to put KC ahead by 2 in the last 10-15 seconds of the game.

Funny how my son slept through the entire second half in the loudest stadium in the NFL. We ran him around the mall pretty good earlier that day.

[hdrider_chgo]

You'll get no argument from me. Soldier Field was an architectural gem before Daley & his team of hack architects permanently disfigured it & disgraced the city by landing an alien spaceship on the 50 yard line. I'm still waiting for the ship to take off & bring Daley back to wherever he came from.

Yeah, what a joke. A landmark structure any city should be proud to have- totally ruined in the name of progress. The fact that it had national landmark status meant nothing. And now the federal government has stripped it of its landmark designation due to the alterations.

Of course similar tragedies are occurring on a smaller scale every day in neighborhoods throughout the city, as homes that were architectural gems and proudly stood for 100 years are obliterated and replaced with bland masonry boxes. The architects should be ashamed.

Our legacy for our grandchildren will consist largely of fast food joints, suburban tract houses, and strip malls.

[Cheyenps]

How do they figure to pay for it?

[Bill Lacey]

The Hunt family is contributing $125 million, and the tax payers agreed to pay the rest. Total project is $375 million. I don't know how long of a time span that will last for though.

[m beezo]

Bill, your originally from Kansas City? I seem to recall over the years several posts of yours that talked about Kansas City? Going to a game in KC from Wisconsin seems like a long trip for someone although I am not much of a sports fan. I got burned out on sports as a kid because that was about all that was ever on the radio at my house. I got tired of listening to the chatter to fill the dead air during the games.

I orginally came from Overland Park where my dad worked for the Kansas City Power and Light Company. He was a farm kid who married and moved to Kansas City but always wanted to go back to the farm. When I was around 8 or 10 he got a transfer to a station on the outskirts of KC and we moved to a farm. He got out of being a "grunt" which meant that he was on a team that dug the holes for the electric poles in areas that they could not get the trucks with post hole diggers on them. He was digging holes for a couple of years as they brought power to KC from some hydro electric plant in south Kansas. We still go back to KC area since we have family there.

Too bad that after 30 years away I have memories but much of what I remember is either no longer there or not as I recalled it.

[whiskytangofoxtrot]

With any luck, Stuccoman will finally have some work that will keep him off of the internet joke sites for a while.


Of course, if they don't build it to his satisfaction, you can count on a whole new slew of websites about faulty stadium construction and how the poor football team just wanted a place to play and now they can't because the goal posts are cracking and the field doesn't drain and the grass won't grow in certain spots because Trent Green snuck back in during construction and pee'd all over the field in a beer-fueled drunken-weekend party rage, etc....

[J.Buesking]

I orginally came from Overland Park...

I was born in St. Louis on the Illinois side. I lived town called bellevue until I was 8 or so. I then moved to Kansas City on the missouri side in a little town called Lee's Summit. When I was 14 my dad's job took us again to Louisville and I've been here ever since.

All my family is in St. Louis except my parents. We still visit alot or atleast they do.

[m beezo]

I was born in St. Louis on the Illinois side. I lived town called bellevue until I was 8 or so. I then moved to Kansas City on the missouri side in a little town called Lee's Summit. When I was 14 my dad's job took us again to Louisville and I've been here ever since.

All my family is in St. Louis except my parents. We still visit alot or atleast they do.

If you get here sometime we may have to arrange a meeting. I know right where Lee's Summit is as well as Bellvue. St Louis is not a bad place to be. I have been here nearly 25 years and still consider KC more of my hometown or at least I say it is. Other than a few things there I probably could not find my way around anymore. When I go back there I go to the same places I know and that is about all.