Nearly a decade after opening its first restaurant, plowboysbbq will close later this month. Todd Johns (right), founder, president and chief pitmaster, said he was proud to have had operations on both sides of the state line, to be in the downtown loop, to have a franchise location, and to have been in Arrowhead Stadium for five years. Johns and his team have been in more than 225 barbecue competitions since 2001, and have won numerous awards. “Our brand is really built around our competition experience,” he said Plowboys opened at 3111 S.W. Missouri 7 in Blue Springs in 2013. It added a downtown location, at 1111 Main St., two years later and then expanded that spot. Those locations will close at the end of business on August 14th. “It’s bittersweet for sure,” Johns said Tuesday morning. “This was all different when we were 10 years younger. Our bodies are needing to slow down quite a bit. So kind of everything pointed to this is where we need to end it. This was a really g...