Name: Chicago Bears New Stadium Drama and Funding Issues
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So something's happening in Chicago right now that's beyond thinkable, and we've experienced it here in New York, so I can relate to it, uh, depending on how old you are. So they're trying to build a new stadium in Chicago, some, uh, suburb suburb of Chicago. It's gonna be like a retractable domed stadium, and, you know, that way if they want to let the cold weather come in for Bears games, they can. If they want to do concerts in February, they could by closing the roof and all that stuff, but they apparently Don't have the money to do it and uh whatever uh you know, local officials that are in charge of you know tax revenue also won't earmark the type of money that the Bears ownership wants to build the damn thing right now just for the record, years ago before this current, uh, people were in charge, they did buy the land where they want to put it. There was a racetrack. It was, yeah, they bought all of the land. Apparently there was now tax issues that held it up. Yeah, Chicago's, uh, look, it's a beautiful city. I love Chicago. It's just run by complete morons. Uh, it's another story for another day, but they're actually dealing now with the reality that, you know, New Yorkers dealt with many years ago, uh, with the New York Giants. Where are the New York Giants gonna play? Well, we're going to build the New York Giants a stadium in New York? No, we're not gonna do that. We're gonna let them go to New Jersey, but we're not going to change the name. They're going to stay New York Giants. If you go way back in time, the New York Jets. The Jets used to play games at Shea Stadium, uh, in Queens. Are we gonna build a stadium for the New York Jets? Well, we came close to building one on the West Side Highway where the Jacob Javits Center is, uh, in New York City. I think that would have been cool. Also was gonna house, uh, a Summer Olympics at the time, and local politicians, uh, who had, uh, money coming in illegally in their back pocket, uh, they shut it down. Uh, so the New York Jets play New Jersey. The New York Giants play New Jersey. But, and while we grew up that way, so for us, we, a lot of us generationally never knew about the Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium for football because, you know, it's a baseball stadium, right? Polo Grounds is something our grandparents talked about, or maybe our dads talked about when they were little. We've only known Giants and Jets football as something that takes place in the state of New Jersey. All right, now, we're not changing the name because as much as I love New Jersey and you love New Jersey, it doesn't carry the same gravitas. You want to be the New York Giants and you make a lot more money, uh, in merch being the New York Giants than you would being the New Jersey Giants. It just doesn't ring, right? People from Queens aren't buying New Jersey anything, but imagine if you were old enough when the Giants left New York to go to New Jersey. Imagine if you were old enough when the New York Jets followed suit and End up going to New Jersey, you would have been apoplectic about it, rightfully so. And the thing I, I think of with the best example for you, Tyrone, is that when the Sixers were trying to build a new arena in the Chinatown part of Center City, and it got, it got squashed, uh, they then pivoted and said, all right, fine, we're going to go to Camden, New Jersey. And while Camden literally is a, a mile and a half miles away. From where you currently play, uh, in South Philadelphia, that would have been a problem if you're a diehard Sixers fan. Your team would have been playing in another state. I don't care how close it is via the Ben Franklin Bridge, it's another state, and you guys would have been livid about it. And by the way, rightfully so, that's where their practice facility is, but not games. So the, the flex now from the Chicago Bears owner. And this is a flex. This is all this is. It's trying to force the hand of local politicians and get an army of Bears fans upset so that they'll call into to talk radio, write letters to their state senators and congressmen and women, and try to convince them this can't happen, all right? But the threat is, for those of you that don't know geography, and I went through this with my son, who's driving through there right now coming home from Iowa in college, is that Illinois borders Indiana. It's right there. It ain't that far away. It's right there. And Indiana would love to have the Chicago Bears playing their games in Indiana to the point where they've got all the money ready. They've got the land ready. They've got the permits ready. They got shovels ready. They're ready to go today, and it's gonna be interesting. Like, could you imagine. An image of Mike Ditka running out of the tunnel and instead of it saying Chicago Bears on his sweater, bang right there, the Indianapolis Bears. Now, part of the rub is they're still going to be called, I would think, the Chicago Bears because it's a legacy franchise. You're one of the ones that started it. You know, due respect to the ownership group, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if I'm a Chicago Bear fan, and for the first time in forever, It appears that I've got a good football team. It appears that I've got a really good coach in Ben Johnson. It appears that Caleb Williams is gonna be a franchise quarterback. It seems like we're gonna be good for a minimum of a good 5 to 7 year run, right, which they have not had in a long time. They've never had in their career, in their history, a 4000 yard. Passer, they might get one. They've never had a 30 touchdown guy. They might have one. All right. They've not been good since '85 or that one time where Jay Cutler took them to the playoffs and I guess, uh, Grossman actually went to the Super Bowl, but they had no chance of actually, they had no chance of winning that game. So if I'm a Bears fan, you're telling me we finally got things right on the field and now you're threatening. To move the team to Indiana, I don't care how close Indiana is to a Chicago suburb. It's not Chicago. It's not Illinois, as some of my friends say, right? Well, the Indiana, and I'm excited. To put my feet up by the fireplace, get me some popcorn, and watch how this unfolds because in my head, the only time it's ever unfolded the wrong way was when the Giants and Jets both left New York. Every other team that's threatened it has gotten their stadium.

Chicago Bears New Stadium Drama and Funding Issues

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