Nowadays, most NFL teams feel more comfortable staying close to home for their first full practices of the season.
A quarter of a century ago, only a handful of teams stayed in town for training camp. Now, however, just a handful of teams — the Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys and Carolina Panthers — still go on the road.
Each July, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, president Mark Donovan and CEO Clark Hunt are all happy to explain to reporters why the team doesn’t mind bucking current trends by spending a few weeks on the campus of Missouri Western State University in St.