Kansas City Renegades to bring arena football back to Kansas City
Kansas City won’t be without an arena football team for long. After the Kansas City Command announced that it folded four weeks ago, it looked like the sport might be doomed locally. It was the second time since 2009 that the local Arena Football League closed shop. But Jeremy Ploeger, the vice chairman of the Jackson County Board of Planning and Zoning Adjustments and former sports agent, held a press conference at Brio on the Plaza Thursday to announce that he was here to pick up the pieces and unveil the new club’s name.
The new team will be called the Kansas City Renegades and, as previously announced, it will play in the newly formed Champions Professional Indoor Football League. (The revealing of the name was done with all the showmanship that second-tier pro sports teams are known for, as several comely young women in short shorts unbuttoned tight blazers to reveal the Renegade logos on T-shirts.)
