Arlington Heights Bears?

[Da Coach]

The Los Angeles Rams and Charges play in Englewood CA, although still LA county I believe and the San Francisco 49ers play in Santa Clara.

They would still be the Chicago Bears

 

[noprophet]

The Maryland Football team approves.

 

[Da Coach]

No way they move to Arlington Heights. Too much money to be made downtown at the bars and such. Like someone else said, this is all a ploy to get the stadium renovated. And by renovated, I mean torn the fuck down and started over. They need a retractable roof and 80 to 90K seats to host the superbowl.

This is the reason I think it would suck. I love hanging out downtown before and after a game.

The heights would be lame

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Give us a bigger, better stadium but keep the name Soldier Field. I'm all for it.

New Soldier Field.

Easy Peasy.


And instead of the UFO landing, have the outside be a mirror replica, at least aesthetically , but the inside instead of both aesthetics from the old solder field competing with each other, meld the old with new technology. Thinking of something like Las Vegas Caesar's palace from a technology standpoint (but just less gaudy and more Bears from an aesthetic standpoint).

Would make for a damn cool stadium experience and make going to the games have value (vs a lot of people just happy to watch from home).

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

This is the reason I think it would suck. I love hanging out downtown before and after a game.

The heights would be lame

They would build around it.

You kidding me?

The second such plans were ever to be confirmed, 10 bars would open up in the surrounding area overnight.

 

[KittiesKorner]

This is the reason I think it would suck. I love hanging out downtown before and after a game.

The heights would be lame

close to ikea though!

 

[didshereallysaythat]

This is the reason I think it would suck. I love hanging out downtown before and after a game.

The heights would be lame

I don't even know how to get to Arlington Heights lol. I think my wife and I got pho there once.

 

[Montucky]

No way they move to Arlington Heights. Too much money to be made downtown at the bars and such. Like someone else said, this is all a ploy to get the stadium renovated. And by renovated, I mean torn the fuck down and started over. They need a retractable roof and 80 to 90K seats to host the superbowl.

They'll maybe get the Super Bowl once every fifty or so years. You can't golf in Chicago in February.

I think the idea will be to restore it to be much more faithful to the 1924 design but with modern amenities. Which is what they should've done in the first place. There won't be a dome, just not gonna happen.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

I don't even know how to get to Arlington Heights lol. I think my wife and I got pho there once.

Yeah, Arlington Heights has a large asian population.

 

[didshereallysaythat]

They would build around it.

You kidding me?

The second such plans were ever to be confirmed, 10 bars would open up in the surrounding area overnight.

That's true. But do you know how many filthy rich people live on or near the Magnificent Mile / Gold Coast that conveniently go to games and spent over a grand each game?

 

[Montucky]

Fun fact that I heard but have never confirmed but still sounds cool: Chicago suburbs and neighborhoods have so many names with "Hills", "Heights", etc. in their name because they wanted to market themselves as the high ground free from the disease and despair of the low country. That's why the flattest major city in the world (at least that I've ever seen) is rife with place names touting changes in elevation that aren't even perceptible to naked eye. Or don't even exist in the first place.

 

[didshereallysaythat]

They'll maybe get the Super Bowl once every fifty or so years. You can't golf in Chicago in February.

I think the idea will be to restore it to be much more faithful to the 1924 design but with modern amenities. Which is what they should've done in the first place. There won't be a dome, just not gonna happen.

I don't think they would ever get the Super Bowl without a roof. NY barely got it which is the biggest market and their winter's are 10-15 degrees warmer than Chicago on average.

 

[Diehardfan]

Exactly. Whenever this discussion came up last a couple people mentioned that. Obviously they still would. The NY teams play in NJ

Detroit played in Pontiac for years in the Silverdome. Now they got another new place.....which begs the question of how can a dump like Detroit get two new stadiums while the Bears continue to play in the space ship on the lake front.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

That's true. But do you know how many filthy rich people live on or near the Magnificent Mile / Gold Coast that conveniently go to games and spent over a grand each game?

Lots of rich people in Arlington Heights too.

 

[Montucky]

I don't think they would ever get the Super Bowl without a roof. NY barely got it which is the biggest market and their winter's are 10-15 degrees warmer than Chicago on average.

Yeah I meant even if Soldier Field had a roof the Bears would get it about as often as Minneapolis gets it (roughly twenty-five year intervals) except now the two would probably have to share those appearances between them.

 

[Tater]

I don't even know how to get to Arlington Heights lol. I think my wife and I got pho there once.

The train goes right there.

 

[Discus fish salesman]

Lots of rich people in Arlington Heights too.

Lol yeah plus there will be 20-40 k more people in the stands. I'm sure they will make up for "the rich people from the magnificent mile." What a bizarre take.

 

[KittiesKorner]

this is almost as good of an idea as proposing holding the Olympics in Washington Park

 

[Diehardfan]

That's true. But do you know how many filthy rich people live on or near the Magnificent Mile / Gold Coast that conveniently go to games and spent over a grand each game?

Well, they could just hop in their limo and join the suburban millionaires at Arlington.....reverse of the suburban millionaires taking their limo to Soldier Field.

 

[Discus fish salesman]

Yeah I meant even if Soldier Field had a roof the Bears would get it about as often as Minneapolis gets it (roughly twenty-five year intervals) except now the two would probably have to share those appearances between them.

Bears can't have a super bowl because they don't have enough capacity in the current stadium.

Edit: saw original post mentioned they can't have a super bowl because of capacity limits, my bad