sport news Dallas mayor Eric Johnson pushes for Chiefs to join the Cowboys in his city ... trends now
Dallas mayor Eric Johnson has made a push for the Kansas City Chiefs to move to his city after a ballot measure to approve public funding for renovations to Arrowhead Stadium was rejected this week.
Kansas City's sports teams - the Chiefs and MLB's Royals - were dealt a blow Tuesday when residents of Jackson County shot down a sales tax measure that would have helped fund major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium and a new downtown ballpark.
The rejection threw the future of the teams into doubt with it unclear if Arrowhead Stadium will remain the home of Chiefs Kingdom beyond 2031.
But Dallas mayor Johnson appeared to offer a solution as he offered up his city as a landing spot, despite the Cowboys already residing there.
'Dallas was named the top sports city in the United States because we play to win,' Johnson said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News.
Dallas mayor Eric Johnson has made a push for the Kansas City Chiefs to move to his city
The future of the Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday night when Missouri voters rejected a sales tax measure to fund their new stadium plans
'As I have said previously, our market is big enough, growing enough, and loves football more than enough to support a second NFL team—especially a franchise (and an owner) with deep roots here.'
Lamar Hunt, the father of current owner Clark Hunt, founded the Dallas Texans in 1959 as one of the original teams in the American Football League.
The Texans relocated to Kansas City and were rebranded as the Chiefs in 1963, winning three AFL titles and beating the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV in the final game before the AFL-NFL merged.
The Dallas market has never had two NFL teams playing at the same time but it isn't unusual for a major city to host two franchises.
New York is home to the Jets and the Giants, while the Chargers and the Rams both call Los Angeles with the teams even sharing stadiums at the MetLife Stadium and SoFi Stadium respectively.
However, if the Chiefs were to consider moving back down south to Dallas they would be facing a hefty fee to the rest of the NFL's
