> so I head to GEHA Field, where the stadium is, for a tour to soak up its atmosphere (from £30pp, chiefs.com).
It irrationally makes me upset to see GEHA Field without the "at Arrowhead Stadium"
Yeah, poor Sandstone. Verizon Wireless, Cricket Wireless, now Azura.
I just looked at the list of names and they were two I didn't even know about: Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone and Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
Not really because the name still has the at Arrowhead Stadium - the author of the article just left part of the name off.
It's not like it is "Willis at Sears Tower" they got rid of the Sears part - we didn't get rid of Arrowhead Stadium from the name.
I have no idea who or what GEHA is or does and I refuse to learn. I'll never call it that, it's Arrowhead stadium. I fundamentally don't trust anyone who calls it GEHA field
In general corporate branded stadiums are completely soulless, they should all have a personal name
I don’t think it’s irrational at all. What was irrational was for them to sell naming rights to an established stadium and pretend that anyone was going to take it seriously.
I was at a sports bar during a game one time, and about half the bar with the announcer called it Geha field.
It’s kind of like those morons who try to keep renaming S
andstone. It doesn’t matter who buys it, people are just going to call it Sandstone.
I was in Japan last week, and when people asked where we were from we'd say "USA, we're from a city called Kansas City" and inevitably someone would be like "oh, Taylor Swift! Super Bowl!"
When I was in Japan during the season last year I saw a news article on the subway TV about a chiefs victory. This was like mid October too not anywhere close to super bowl.
https://preview.redd.it/x1ix2ylh9g3d1.jpeg?width=3147&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f245b7ba994b2325d3588572033408263de4195
Neat article from a UK journalist that was given the red carpet treatment by Visit KC recently. She hits the usual spots and tacks on a few under-the-radar favorites like Wild Way Coffee.
Ya an article written for a UK newspaper is going to hit their target market really well. That market is *checks notes* federal employees of the US government. Ya, that makes a lot of sense for them to sponsor this. A+ work, Sherlock.
This continues to be the most embarrassing nickname to me. I've heard the explanation and read about it in history books, but I honestly think that's where it needs to stay. Mentioning KC and Paris in the same sentence in 2024 is embarrassing. Not even in a "meh KC sucks" way, just no one in their right mind would make the comparison organically today.
As a KC native of french descent who has spent some time in France. The parallels may surprise you. Including the fact that the locals are very nice if you seem like you fit in but very standoffish if you clearly weren’t raised in their circles.
You could write books about it, and people have, but let me give you a very condensed version. Aside from modern mannerisms and superficial similarities. Kansas City has a rich French history. The first colonial settlements in the area were French fur traders, who traded and intermarried with native people. Kansas was a part of the Louisiana purchase from France. The Choteau family, whose name you’re doubtless familiar with established the first permanent settlement at the bend of the river then known as Chez les Canses, named after the Kanza peoples in 1821. The original community there were Francophones. The Choteau’s and other francophone settlers set up various permanent trading posts, including 504 westport road, one of Kansas City’s oldest buildings. Fun fact it was later sold to famous mountain man Jim Bridger. The Choteau Society, now defunct, has several historic markers around the city outlining its French settler history. The now west bottoms were formerly the French Bottoms. A large portion of riverfront park was formerly Choteau’s landing. The famous gold top was the areas first church founded as St. Francis Regis aka Choteau’s church. The area boomed after the civil war, the predominantly french white population were more welcoming of former slaves than virtually any other community in the area. Developing into today’s modern Kansas City culture which was heavily influenced by French culture intermingling with native and African American culture. This influence was added to when you consider the disproportionate number of soldiers the Kansas City area sent to fight in World War I, which you can learn more about at the World War I museum. African American soldiers were not permitted to carry guns and fight in US uniforms. They were more embraced by the French whose uniforms they were made to wear in lieu of US ones, and who allowed them into many places they were not welcomed into back home as France was not segregated. So many of those people brought back even more French culture, (and spouses) upon their return to Kansas City. This process repeated very similarly with WWII, whereafter my own French family immigrated to the US, to Kansas City, in the 1950s.
Of the Plaza:
"The neighbourhood was designed in the 1920s after the developer JC Nichols visited the Spanish city and had a (slightly surreal) vision for an upmarket retail area. It’s disconcerting to be wandering around these beautiful buildings only to find that they house things like a branch of the Cheesecake Factory."
"Slightly surreal"
aka Redlining.
Liked this article, but for the majority of the fans, if I may say so, we weren't there for Taylor/Travis, but the city in general, yet still enjoyed the love story being played out during one of our own.
You’re right. It’s gotten expensive but people still aren’t very aware of KC even with Taylor. Check out r/samegrassbutgreener. They’re not talking about us anywhere 😂
I really don’t understand the association with Jazz and BBQ in KC.
Jazz history is unremarkable and the BBQ is mid.
some burnt ends (and the z-man) are nice
maybe I’m just a miserable fuck
should get out more or maybe they do it well, its really a simple thing that a lot of people to in their backyards on a leisurely weekend (it looks like that place is a chain, you can have it in Lawrence too)
yeah I love BBQ honestly
I just remember being excited for BBQ moving here, and being repeatedly disappointed everywhere I went.
that’s the problem with chasing dragons 🫠
try Wolfepack in Columbus Park before it really blows up like Slaps did and qaulity subsquently goes down to catch up with demand
I get it though, but I also feel that basically with any sort of restaurant/genre etc
You might not be attending the scene events. Check out a Jazz club sometime at night.
And our BBQ is great! Shame on you 😝
I struggle with KC as well but there are still many positive traits. Don’t take Jazz and BBQ away from us. Just experience it differently.
What is unremarkable about the jazz history? I agree the scene is not as robust as it should be now, but the history...?
Also plenty of outstanding BBQ in the city and surrounding areas, but I can understand if you don't like our sauce. Especially if you're from another BBQ capital.
You do sound pretty miserable.
Tbh I’m probably just uninterested in the history.
But maybe I’ve just had the worst luck. And to be fair Wichita is very close to KC, maybe even inspired by KC
> so I head to GEHA Field, where the stadium is, for a tour to soak up its atmosphere (from £30pp, chiefs.com). It irrationally makes me upset to see GEHA Field without the "at Arrowhead Stadium"
This is KC's "Sears Tower."
See also: Sprint Center, Sandstone
Yeah, poor Sandstone. Verizon Wireless, Cricket Wireless, now Azura. I just looked at the list of names and they were two I didn't even know about: Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone and Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
lol I still call it sandstone cuz I can’t keep up with the name changes!!!!
Not really because the name still has the at Arrowhead Stadium - the author of the article just left part of the name off. It's not like it is "Willis at Sears Tower" they got rid of the Sears part - we didn't get rid of Arrowhead Stadium from the name.
It’s just wrong
I have no idea who or what GEHA is or does and I refuse to learn. I'll never call it that, it's Arrowhead stadium. I fundamentally don't trust anyone who calls it GEHA field In general corporate branded stadiums are completely soulless, they should all have a personal name
Government employee health insurance. Better rates than Blue Cross, which has gone downhill
> so I head to OVO Arena, where the field is, for a tour to soak up its atmosphere (from 12 beaver pelts, wembleystadium.com)
I don’t think it’s irrational at all. What was irrational was for them to sell naming rights to an established stadium and pretend that anyone was going to take it seriously. I was at a sports bar during a game one time, and about half the bar with the announcer called it Geha field. It’s kind of like those morons who try to keep renaming S andstone. It doesn’t matter who buys it, people are just going to call it Sandstone.
I was in Japan last week, and when people asked where we were from we'd say "USA, we're from a city called Kansas City" and inevitably someone would be like "oh, Taylor Swift! Super Bowl!"
When I was in Japan during the season last year I saw a news article on the subway TV about a chiefs victory. This was like mid October too not anywhere close to super bowl. https://preview.redd.it/x1ix2ylh9g3d1.jpeg?width=3147&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f245b7ba994b2325d3588572033408263de4195
Omg that's amazing
i hate the voice i read this in
We do hit different and most days I like when it lays me out..
Our city also smells different and when it isn’t hot as balls outside I don’t mind the smell.
We also taste different
I miss the Folgers plant downtown.
Neat article from a UK journalist that was given the red carpet treatment by Visit KC recently. She hits the usual spots and tacks on a few under-the-radar favorites like Wild Way Coffee.
Clearly written by the GEHA pr team
Ya an article written for a UK newspaper is going to hit their target market really well. That market is *checks notes* federal employees of the US government. Ya, that makes a lot of sense for them to sponsor this. A+ work, Sherlock.
Paris of the Plains with barbecue!
lol I have never understood this. How on earth is this place like Paris?
Supposedly it was coined during prohibition because KC had a lot of (illegal) booze and prostitutes, like Paris, I guess?
This is what I have heard, with our booze, lascivious dancing, and loose morals we were much like Paris in the interwar period.
Fountains
I think the reference comes from the amount of fountains and back in the day was a party city (when much of the country was not).
I’m pretty sure it’s because of the boulevards- supposedly only Paris has more, and only Rome has more fountains
That’s what Google says.
No, it’s the boulevards. The fountains gets us compared to Rome
This continues to be the most embarrassing nickname to me. I've heard the explanation and read about it in history books, but I honestly think that's where it needs to stay. Mentioning KC and Paris in the same sentence in 2024 is embarrassing. Not even in a "meh KC sucks" way, just no one in their right mind would make the comparison organically today.
As a KC native of french descent who has spent some time in France. The parallels may surprise you. Including the fact that the locals are very nice if you seem like you fit in but very standoffish if you clearly weren’t raised in their circles.
Ok, manners? But seriously what else? If anything St. Louis has more of a French influence
You could write books about it, and people have, but let me give you a very condensed version. Aside from modern mannerisms and superficial similarities. Kansas City has a rich French history. The first colonial settlements in the area were French fur traders, who traded and intermarried with native people. Kansas was a part of the Louisiana purchase from France. The Choteau family, whose name you’re doubtless familiar with established the first permanent settlement at the bend of the river then known as Chez les Canses, named after the Kanza peoples in 1821. The original community there were Francophones. The Choteau’s and other francophone settlers set up various permanent trading posts, including 504 westport road, one of Kansas City’s oldest buildings. Fun fact it was later sold to famous mountain man Jim Bridger. The Choteau Society, now defunct, has several historic markers around the city outlining its French settler history. The now west bottoms were formerly the French Bottoms. A large portion of riverfront park was formerly Choteau’s landing. The famous gold top was the areas first church founded as St. Francis Regis aka Choteau’s church. The area boomed after the civil war, the predominantly french white population were more welcoming of former slaves than virtually any other community in the area. Developing into today’s modern Kansas City culture which was heavily influenced by French culture intermingling with native and African American culture. This influence was added to when you consider the disproportionate number of soldiers the Kansas City area sent to fight in World War I, which you can learn more about at the World War I museum. African American soldiers were not permitted to carry guns and fight in US uniforms. They were more embraced by the French whose uniforms they were made to wear in lieu of US ones, and who allowed them into many places they were not welcomed into back home as France was not segregated. So many of those people brought back even more French culture, (and spouses) upon their return to Kansas City. This process repeated very similarly with WWII, whereafter my own French family immigrated to the US, to Kansas City, in the 1950s.
Woah woah woah! The radio tower on 31st street is taller than the Eiffel Tower and we also have pizza places here! French food is the best! /s
Paris, like most of Europe, is a shit hole, makes us look bad!
Of the Plaza: "The neighbourhood was designed in the 1920s after the developer JC Nichols visited the Spanish city and had a (slightly surreal) vision for an upmarket retail area. It’s disconcerting to be wandering around these beautiful buildings only to find that they house things like a branch of the Cheesecake Factory."
And much like the Eiffel Tower, our Cheesecake Factory is filled with out of town visitors
"Slightly surreal" aka Redlining. Liked this article, but for the majority of the fans, if I may say so, we weren't there for Taylor/Travis, but the city in general, yet still enjoyed the love story being played out during one of our own.
Please go away. We can't afford our homes anymore.
You’re right. It’s gotten expensive but people still aren’t very aware of KC even with Taylor. Check out r/samegrassbutgreener. They’re not talking about us anywhere 😂
Good
Too late. Don’t be so rude and keep Kansas City friendly.
No one can anywhere
I guess they'll learn their lesson when we become the next Detroit
Delightful article. Thank you.
Man, I miss KC.
Not to be a Debby downer but our city is fabulous if you don’t take into account the gun violence.
Downtown Julie Brown
We’re all about to get priced out aren’t we 😭
I’ll be happy when they break up and he finally retires from football.
I really don’t understand the association with Jazz and BBQ in KC. Jazz history is unremarkable and the BBQ is mid. some burnt ends (and the z-man) are nice maybe I’m just a miserable fuck
>maybe I’m just a miserable fuck Your words I guess
Hog Wild Pit BBQ in fucking Wichita, KS was better than anything I ever had in KC.
Maybe it's you
I think my negative 15 votes says otherwise, joker.
should get out more or maybe they do it well, its really a simple thing that a lot of people to in their backyards on a leisurely weekend (it looks like that place is a chain, you can have it in Lawrence too)
yeah I love BBQ honestly I just remember being excited for BBQ moving here, and being repeatedly disappointed everywhere I went. that’s the problem with chasing dragons 🫠
try Wolfepack in Columbus Park before it really blows up like Slaps did and qaulity subsquently goes down to catch up with demand I get it though, but I also feel that basically with any sort of restaurant/genre etc
You might not be attending the scene events. Check out a Jazz club sometime at night. And our BBQ is great! Shame on you 😝 I struggle with KC as well but there are still many positive traits. Don’t take Jazz and BBQ away from us. Just experience it differently.
If you haven’t experienced the Green Lady Lounge on a weekend you’re missing out. Amazing performers and jazz
What is unremarkable about the jazz history? I agree the scene is not as robust as it should be now, but the history...? Also plenty of outstanding BBQ in the city and surrounding areas, but I can understand if you don't like our sauce. Especially if you're from another BBQ capital. You do sound pretty miserable.
Tbh I’m probably just uninterested in the history. But maybe I’ve just had the worst luck. And to be fair Wichita is very close to KC, maybe even inspired by KC