Chiefs news: St. Joseph hopes to bring back training camp

Nothing has been finalized yet, but St. Joseph would love to have the Super Bowl winners back for training camp.

For some younger fans, it might seem like St. Joseph and the Kansas City Chiefs preseason go together like peanut butter and jelly, some historic constant that represents the way things have always been. But that’s definitely not the case.

It wasn’t so long ago that every franchise around the National Football League took off toward a sparsely populated area to huddle up for training camp. However, the modern game caters more to routine and technological needs as well as player desires, which means such preseason setups have been slowly dissolving for some time.

The Chiefs remain one of the few teams in the league to get away from distractions at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph for their preseason, but the agreement remains up in the air more than most fans would likely guess. Mayor John Josendale told the St. Joseph Post that the contract “being negotiated is on a year-to-year basis.”

"“So, we’re going to plan for them being here, hopefully that comes through in the next couple of months that they’re here, and we’ll build on that.”"

The Chiefs have held training camp at Missouri Western since 2010, which means the entire Andy Reid era has been housed there in July and August (save for the 2020 COVID-affected season). Before that, from 1991 to 2009, the Chiefs would head all the way to Wisconsin in River Falls for their preseason. Before that, Liberty, Missouri was the preseason home for the Chiefs for nearly 30 years (from 1963 to 1990).

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