KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As Joe Reardon and David Pruente boarded a crowded bus after attending the World Cup fanfest in Qatar earlier this fall, they found themselves next to a 12-year-old from Iran.
As they made small talk with the boy, they asked each other where they were from. Reardon, the president of Kansas City’s chamber of commerce, and Pruente, a vice president for the chamber, said they were from the United States.
That process has included projects and investments that aren’t solely related to sports either. Kansas City has undergone a radical change in recent decades, and many of those improvements are why the city has attracted events like the draft and the World Cup. The city’s downtown arena opened in 2007 in conjunction with an entertainment district across the street and hotel and apartment construction soon followed. Nine years later, the city opened up a free streetcar system that shuttles residents and visitors from the north side of downtown to Union Station that will serve as the primary mode of transportation for the thousands of people set to attend the draft.
Before Mahomes, the Chiefs hadn’t taken a quarterback in the first round since selecting Todd Blackledge in 1983 and the most recent quarterback drafted by the Chiefs to start for the franchise was Brodie Croyle in 2010.
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