Los Angeles and New York are the one two cities with a number of NFL groups, however may Dallas quickly be becoming a member of them?
After a sales tax vote was shot down in Jackson County, Missouri, on Tuesday evening that might have funded renovations to the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson took to social media to pitch the workforce to contemplate shifting to Dallas ought to it in the end resolve to relocate.
“Dallas was named the highest sports activities metropolis in the US as a result of we play to win,” Johnson told The Dallas Morning Information on Wednesday. “As I’ve stated beforehand, our market is sufficiently big, rising sufficient, and loves soccer greater than sufficient to help a second NFL workforce — particularly a franchise (and an proprietor) with deep roots right here.”
Johnson’s plea isn’t out of the blue.
The Chiefs even have a historical past in Dallas, which is the place they had been based by Lamar Hunt in 1959 because the Dallas Texans, a constitution member of the American Soccer League. Hunt moved the workforce to Kansas Metropolis in 1963 and renamed them the Chiefs.
The Hunt household nonetheless owns the workforce, so a transfer again to its unique roots doesn’t appear fully absurd, although it’s nonetheless extremely unlikely.
Johnson could also be on board with including a second NFL workforce, however Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones presumably doesn’t.
The Cowboys are thought-about one of many league’s golden groups, and Jones doubtless doesn’t need to share the highlight in his personal metropolis with the two-time defending Tremendous Bowl champions, particularly because the Cowboys have simply 5 playoff wins since 1995 — the final time the workforce gained a Tremendous Bowl championship.
“You might be relaxation assured that you wouldn’t have the NFL supporting one other workforce due to the type of worth that the sport and the NFL receives of getting (the) Dallas Cowboys as one in every of its marquee groups and once more, logic tells you (the NFL) wouldn’t need to water that down,” Jones advised the Dallas Morning Information again in June 2022.