The Bunker’s best-selling tee is full of KC anti-pride

Anti-pride. That’s the best way to describe this town’s inferiority complex. It sounds like a bad thing, but consider this: Commiserating is probably the number-one way that people bond with each other. And though we’re the first to complain amongst ourselves that Kansas City isn’t a Boston, Chicago or Denver, let someone from out of town tell us that our town sucks and we’re ready to brawl. It’s like complaining about someone else’s mother — they can do it, but if you do, God help you, sucka.

That’s what’s great about The Bunker‘s best-selling T-shirt, which bears the slogan, “What happens in Kansas City … doesn’t matter.” Store owner Kurt Scholla came up with the riff on Las Vegas’ motto and the tee’s design and gets them printed by Cleveland-based Jakprints. They go for $24.

“It’s a lighthearted jab at how we’re a very big small town,” says Drew Barr, who’s worked at The Bunker since the shirts first debuted in 2004. “I love it here. It’s just that nothing big happens here very often.”

Two other house-made tees are big sellers: “Don’t Mess With Kansas, Either,” and, “Put Me Outta My … Missouri.”