“Concrete cancer” sounds like something you’d yell at a passerby for an easy jump scare, but it is unfortunately a very real term and the latest subject in a long saga of stadium discourse. I am tired of this discourse, but it continues regardless. I am particularly tired with the official positions of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals, and I can’t help but feel like I’m being talked down to like a child who can’t think critically.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s start with some stuff we know for sure.
The whole impetus for the new stadium discourse at all is because the current leases on Kauffman Stadium and Arrowhead end in 2031.