Teams should be in central urban areas especially with such a big metro to allow all areas to utilize public trans and be as close as possible. The problem with the current location is it is terrible getting in and out and lacking connections to Metra or CTA rail.

I would prefer they stay in the city.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The thing I don't get is how many people are taking this new attitude that this is what's been holding the Bears back. The problem all along was a lakefront stadium in the city and not [gestures broadly] all of this? We all seem to agree that the McCaskeylings are these dead-eyed mutants who can't walk into a room without consulting an instruction manual, but now for some reason two-thirds of the fanbase thinks that those same mutants should spearhead a massive mixed-use real estate project and that nothing can possibly go wrong with that. Okay.

The dumbest and therefore likeliest possible outcome is that an Arlington Park stadium is just Soldier Field but more so: a monument of and to luxury suites that limits the general population more than any other stadium in the league. Watch it only be 64,000 seats instead of 61,000. But it'll have DOME!

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Teams should be in central urban areas especially with such a big metro to allow all areas to utilize public trans and be as close as possible. The problem with the current location is it is terrible getting in and out and lacking connections to Metra or CTA rail.

I would prefer they stay in the city.

Arlington will get a few token one-time events and then everything will fuck off right back to Jerryworld and it'll be left with nothing but weekly Monster Jams. Maybe the B1G title game is there more than once.

Arlington will get a few token one-time events and then everything will fuck off right back to Jerryworld and it'll be left with nothing but weekly Monster Jams. Maybe the B1G title game is there more than once.

with or without the special events, the Bears will have a more accessible stadium, a casino, 80,000 fans per game, a casino, and all the additional revenue streams. This is not going to be a bad investment for them.

with or without the special events, the Bears will have a more accessible stadium, a casino, 80,000 fans per game, a casino, and all the additional revenue streams. This is not going to be a bad investment for them.

its a great investment for them

its a bad investment for the public. I wonder if AH is contributing

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Yes, if you're rooting for the owners it's great.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Isn't the big complaint about pro sports teams that they abuse cities and aren't worth the costs associated with making them happy?

Shouldn't it be celebrated that the Bears freed the city of Chicago from that burden and are putting their own money down to purchase the land of their own stadium?

If sports stadiums are really bad for cities then "Congratulations Chicago!".

Bears are so poorly run they can't even hold the city up for a new stadium. I'm a big proponent of cities telling teams to fuck off so good for them I guess, but I can only imagine the concessions the same people who brought you the parking meter contract would have brought to the table to get the bears to stay.

Lori was on Mully and Haugh ?

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Bears are so poorly run they can't even hold the city up for a new stadium. I'm a big proponent of cities telling teams to fuck off so good for them I guess, but I can only imagine the concessions the same people who brought you the parking meter contract would have brought to the table to get the bears to stay.

I could see the stadium getting a ton of other events. The Bears alone will create new businesses. Jerry world has tons of events other than the Cowboys. Soldier Field is a mess. They needed to do something.

I also want to see cities stop kowtowing to professional sports teams. However, the City's annual budget is somewhere around $6.5 billion. If they can keep the Bears around by spending a couple hundred million bucks, I would like to see them to do it.

Why should the city hand out massive subsidies for 8 events out of the calendar? There's no way it's a prudent financial management of taxpayer money. There are much better investments than the fucking McCaskey-run Bears.