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...and with just twenty cents per day, you can provide it with shoes and clean water.
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Ah, the
Sprint Center. For those of you not familiar with the cereal bowl of dreams, allow me to enlighten you: In the mid-2000s, some people more or less decided that
Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri was not doing all it could to attract a third (or fourth!) major professional sports team to Kansas City (what with all of the
professional wrestling deaths and
failing surrounding infrastructure). So, a new arena (the
Sprint Center) was imagined, designed, and built with help from the dream makers at
AEG Imagineering with the intention of attracting large events to town and a NBA or NHL franchise. Since its opening in 2006, the building has hosted a multitude of events and is one of the
most popular arenas in the United States. But....it still remains that the NHL and NBA do not have teams here, as promised (or assumed, or said in passing-- I'm not a lawyer). With the recent lockout of the NBA and the relocation of the NHL's Atlanta franchise to much smaller but hockey crazed/starved Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Sprint Center and Kansas City have come up in the almost bi- to tri-annual "Why is the Sprint Center and Kansas City so worthless?" discussions. But really, it's not so worthless, and Kansas City is not as much of a shithole as some
power line licking, nomadic, lonely, previously unemployed 'sports' writers would have you believe.
