Dem rep blasts Chiefs owner after team announces Kansas move

Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., ripped Kansas City Chiefs squad proprietor Clark Hunt aft the enactment announced it plans to relocate by the 2031 season.

The Chiefs program to physique a state-of-the-art stadium successful Kansas City, Kansas, with the enactment of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly.

"Clark Hunt: the biggest Welfare King successful America. Billions of payer wealth going to this billionaire, portion moving radical suffer. Just a disgrace," helium wrote connected X.

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Kansas City Chiefs proprietor Clark Hunt, right, and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, airs for a photograph during an lawsuit announcing the squad volition permission Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo. for a caller stadium that volition beryllium built crossed the Kansas-Missouri authorities enactment and beryllium acceptable for the commencement of the 2031 season, during an lawsuit Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 successful Topeka, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Boyle’s contented seemingly revolves astir the program for the Chiefs’ move.

Kansas outbid Missouri, and the erstwhile state’s STAR (Sales Tax and Revenue) bonds volition beryllium covering up to 70% of the outgo of the caller stadium. Missouri did o.k. a program this past summertime that would wage up to fractional of the outgo of the caller stadiums for not lone the Chiefs, but MLB’s Kansas City Royals as well.

Voters successful Jackson County, the jurisdiction that owns the Truman Sports Complex successful Missouri, blocked an hold of a 3/8-cent income tax, which would’ve funded improvements to Arrowhead Stadium portion helping concern a caller Royals stadium. As such, some franchises were forced to look astatine different options, and the Chiefs made a large decision. Furthermore, it motivated Kansas lawmakers to act.

Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., speaks during the 2016 Democratic National Convention astatine Wells Fargo Arena connected July 25, 2016. (Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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"The payment to the full portion volition beryllium monumental," Hunt said successful his announcement. "A stadium of this caliber volition enactment Kansas City successful the moving for Super Bowls, Final Fours, and different satellite people events. A marque caller grooming installation and office volition let the Chiefs to proceed to pull apical talent. And the imaginativeness for a caller mixed-use territory volition rival that of immoderate sports-anchored improvement anyplace successful the country."

To further Hunt’s connection above, a domed stadium makes the caller Chiefs location not conscionable a imaginable Super Bowl destination, but would besides play big to galore different sporting and taste events successful the future.

Kansas lawmakers voted unanimously to let the authorities to screen 60% of the outgo of the caller stadium, a caller grooming installation and a retail and amusement space. The bonds volition beryllium paid disconnected with authorities income and liquor taxation revenues successful a defined country astir it.

Hunt and his household are worthy $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

Kansas City Chiefs proprietor Clark Hunt, halfway right, talks to the media during an lawsuit Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, successful Topeka, Kansas, aft announcing the squad volition permission Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri, for a caller stadium that volition beryllium built crossed the Kansas-Missouri authorities enactment and beryllium acceptable for the commencement of the 2031 season. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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It won’t beryllium the archetypal clip the squad has moved. The Chiefs were primitively the Dallas Texans and they won the American Football League title earlier moving to Kansas City, Missouri, successful 1963. The squad played astatine Kansas City Municipal Stadium.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.