KCPowercat wrote:
I have always found that weird too...but it seems as arenas age, less shows stop in? I am sure this isn't the case in nyc but seems to be in midwest markets....
Sure, I mean, Madison Square Garden is over 40 years old. But that's New York.
I can understand why events might have started to shy away from an aging Kemper--inadequate backstage facilities, located in the middle of a dead warehouse district, structural limitations, the roof did collapse once...on and on. But I would imagine Sprint Center should be viable well into the future as the prime regional location for touring events. I just can't see Omaha, Des Moines, Wichita, etc. putting together a competitive deal capable of luring them away. So they'd have to just skip the region entirely, and it seems unfathomable to me that events would essentially say, "Your money isn't good enough for us," to 8 million potential customers. But I could definitely be missing something.
KCMax wrote:Um, what? So if any old NBA or NHL team wants to move here, we might say "nope, sorry, you're not good enough for Kansas City"???
I think he's saying that AEG wouldn't have to bend over quite so far backwards to get a team here. But I don't that that's true.
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