The meaty part of perhaps the most ambitious sports power play in Kansas City history is here. North America won the bid for the 2026 World Cup, so now ours is one of 23 cities competing to be among the 17 match hosts.
It would be the biggest sports event we've ever seen, which creates an uncomfortable new test.
Kansas City calls itself The Soccer Capital of America, and it's a catchy label, but soon we'll know if anyone else takes that seriously.
For a place with a civic inferiority complex but a rising profile in some tangible ways, this is heady stuff.