At a time when labor unrest at Arrowhead Stadium possibly could disrupt the Chiefs’ plans for the 2009 season (though the team says it won’t), a new issue has arisen regarding the planned move of training camp from Wisconsin back to Missouri in 2010. According to Jason Coble of the Kansas City Star, whispers of inconsistencies have arisen regarding the Chiefs’ commitment to conducting training camp at Missouri Western State University. During a December 2008 meeting that resulted in $25 million in tax credits for the organization, Chiefs senior V.P. Bill Newman said that the organization was committed to conducting training camp at Missouri Western for “a minimum of ten years.” Elsewhere, however, the commitment has been characterized as a five-year deal followed by five one-year options. And that’s not a ten-year commitment. Though the far-lengthier-than-it-needs-to-be article (yeah, I’ve written a few of those . . . this week) doesn’t clearly specify the potential consequences, the entire deal presumably could be at risk if the Chiefs don’t make a full 10-year commitment -- and thus the players might continue beyond 2009 to feast on copious amount of cheese in the down time between their July and August two-a-days.
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