Latest development prompts mayor to push for Chiefs to relocate to Dallas

“Dallas was named the top sports city in the United States because we play to win,” Johnson told The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday. “As I have said previously, our market is big enough, growing enough, and loves football more than enough to support a second NFL team — especially a franchise (and an owner) with deep roots here.”

Johnson’s plea isn’t out of the blue. 

The Chiefs actually have a history in Dallas, which is where they were founded by Lamar Hunt in 1959 as the Dallas Texans, a charter member of the American Football League. Hunt moved the team to Kansas City in 1963 and renamed them the Chiefs.

The Hunt family still owns the team, so a move back to its original roots doesn’t seem completely absurd, though it is still highly unlikely.

Johnson may be on board with adding a second NFL team, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones presumably does not. 

The Cowboys are considered one of the league’s golden teams, and Jones likely does not want to share the spotlight in his own city with the two-time defending Super Bowl champions, especially since the Cowboys have just five playoff wins since 1995 — the last time the team won a Super Bowl championship.

“You can be rest assured that you would not have the NFL supporting another team because of the kind of value that the game and the NFL receives of having (the) Dallas Cowboys as one of its marquee teams and again, logic tells you (the NFL) wouldn’t want to water that down,” Jones told the Dallas Morning News back in June 2022.