Bears make offer to buy Arlington Park

[Urblock]

What about the horses? Should build a track on the side so fans have something to do when the team sucks before they go home. Get that last dollar.

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Congratulations Bears. As someone from Lake County Indiana I can tell you that you have officially conceded all of Indiana to the Colts. Even though I moved away years ago, I’ve always been able to answer the countless idiots who asked “why aren’t you a Colts fan if you’re from Indiana” by responding “because I grew up 30 minutes from Soldier Field and 2 and a half hours from Trump humping red neck park or wherever the fuck the inbred Colts play.” Now that the Bears are moving like 100 miles from the Indiana border my rationale is gone, and so is 10% of Chicagoland.

I'm sure the people you referred to as inbreeds will love having you back. Might even think you got pretty teeth...

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

How many season ticket holders do you think live in the city limits of Chicago. None of the people we tailgate with are residents of the city. We all live in the suburbs or out of state. I also would not want them to move to Arlington Heights but I’ll always be a Bears fan.

This - the majority of Bears fans who go to the games are out in the burbs.

Even if say half (and that is being EXTREMELY generous) of all season ticket holders say "fuck you" and don't renew, the WAITING list for season tickets is so damn long that every single one, 10 times over, can be replaced as quickly as the Bears have changed quarterbacks since Sid Luckman.

I support the Bears moving and getting as far away from Chicago politics as they can....

 

[modo]

This is a good thing for the Bears and for fans

 

[Spitta Andretti]

What kind of stadium do you need to have a super bowl? As a football fan I would not care if the game was played outside in the cold, snow. It’s football…it’s meant to be played outside isn’t it?

Yeah, not the NFLs biggest game of the year. They're gonna do everything in their power to make it comfortable for the fans and have a good game where weather isn't a deciding factor

 

[modo]

Its going to be McDonald's Stadium

 

[Zion]

Yeah, not the NFLs biggest game of the year. They're gonna do everything in their power to make it comfortable for the fans and have a good game where weather isn't a deciding factor

Just get super drunk like we russkis do.

 

[Da Coach]

Can we pull up the meltdown threads from when the Bears moved from Wrigley!?

 

[JoJoBoxer]

I bet most fans want it. They could fill a 200k seat stadium with Justin Fields becoming a beast.

Ok, now this is just going completely crazy.

You think that Justin Fields is going to father 200 thousand children, name them all Justin (like George Foreman) so he can fill this new stadium with his own children?

He would indeed become a beast.

 

[Discus fish salesman]

Congratulations Bears. As someone from Lake County Indiana I can tell you that you have officially conceded all of Indiana to the Colts. Even though I moved away years ago, I’ve always been able to answer the countless idiots who asked “why aren’t you a Colts fan if you’re from Indiana” by responding “because I grew up 30 minutes from Soldier Field and 2 and a half hours from Trump humping red neck park or wherever the fuck the inbred Colts play.” Now that the Bears are moving like 100 miles from the Indiana border my rationale is gone, and so is 10% of Chicagoland.

Where do you think Arlington heights is?

 

[JoJoBoxer]

Just use the cannabis tax

Or sell to Bezos where he can rename the team the Bezos Bears, playing in Amazon field in Amazon Heights. He could make a fleet of buses to pick up and take back fans from all over Chicagoland, calling it the Cannabus. Fans would buy, from Amazon, an endless supply of cannabis with instant delivery.

 

[JoJoBoxer]

This shows how the Bears ownership about Chicago, or Bears fans that live in the city and fill their seats. They are showing themselves to be moneygrubbers interested in their pocketbooks rather than operating a team with a history in the city that helped make the Bears what they are. I became a Bears fan in 1964, I will stop being a Bears the day they leave the city...I know I am in the minority so don't pile on.

They should move to Decatur just to make you feel like a heel.

 

[WookieOnRitalin]

I remember driving by the all the time when I had pitching and hitting lessons for baseball at Grand Slam. That would be a big change and probably welcomed change.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

because Soldier Field is owned by the city and ran by the Chicago Park District and its about maximizing that space. Now they could say that just tearing it doing and starting over may be feasible but the the reality is the city actually needs a multiuse stadium adjacent to McCormick place and the Casino to really maximize those tourism dollars .

Imagine

Huge Multi-use stadium
Casino
Sportsbook
E-Sports Facility
McCormick place for displays and exhibits

all within walking or people move distances . Its gonna come to that its all about how do you bring everyone else to that realization

If I'm not mistaken, I think most, if not all, franchises in any of the major sports can have betting kiosks. Maybe not a book where you can go in and sit down at a table, but they can have them.

Maybe it's different because of the Park District owning SF.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

What about the horses? Should build a track on the side so fans have something to do when the team sucks before they go home. Get that last dollar.

They'll be used to plow the field.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Congratulations Bears. As someone from Lake County Indiana I can tell you that you have officially conceded all of Indiana to the Colts. Even though I moved away years ago, I’ve always been able to answer the countless idiots who asked “why aren’t you a Colts fan if you’re from Indiana” by responding “because I grew up 30 minutes from Soldier Field and 2 and a half hours from Trump humping red neck park or wherever the fuck the inbred Colts play.” Now that the Bears are moving like 100 miles from the Indiana border my rationale is gone, and so is 10% of Chicagoland.

What will the Bears do without NW Indiana? They are fucked

 

[ChicagoBearsSinceBirth]

Then she took the cruelest swipe of all.

“Like most Bears fans, we want the organization to focus on putting a winning team on the field, beating the Packers finally and being relevant past October,” she said. “Everything else is noise.”

Bears submit bid for land in Arlington Heights as potential new stadium site

The team’s bid signals it’s legitimately considering leaving Soldier Field, home of the Bears since 1971.

chicago.suntimes.com

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Mayor Napalm

 

[WestCoastBearsFan]

Then she took the cruelest swipe of all.

“Like most Bears fans, we want the organization to focus on putting a winning team on the field, beating the Packers finally and being relevant past October,” she said. “Everything else is noise.”

Bears submit bid for land in Arlington Heights as potential new stadium site

The team’s bid signals it’s legitimately considering leaving Soldier Field, home of the Bears since 1971.

chicago.suntimes.com

isn’t she going to jail?

 

[WestCoastBearsFan]

if the McCaskeys have any balls you do whatever you need to get that land now