Breaking news: Chicago Jaguars

[Montucky]

Oakland and San Francisco. Not the same thing.

I said same city.

Cry all you want, but no NFL team will ever play in Soldier Field after the Bears leave

Twenty-two miles separated Candlestick and Oakland Colesium. Thirty-three miles separate Arlington Racecourse and Soldier Field.

You can admit you forgot about the Bay Area and it won't kill your argument. Just take the L on that one, you're better off admitting it than tying yourself in knots pretending Oakland and San Francisco aren't the same metro area and market.

 

[Bearly]

Oakland and San Francisco. Not the same thing.

I said same city.

Cry all you want, but no NFL team will ever play in Soldier Field after the Bears leave

This. If another team comes here, they'll want to play at the better facility with more seats unless the city effectively gives Soldier Field away.

Imagine how stupid the city would look if they did that and allowed a nearby team owned sportsbook after driving away the Bear.

 

[Spitta Andretti]

This. If another team comes here, they'll want to play at the better facility with more seats.

@Montucky believes the NFL rule that a team has to approve another coming into their market is bullshit and not real

He's a moron

 

[Bearly]

@Montucky believes the NFL rule that a team has to approve another coming into their market is bullshit and not real

He's a moron

Honestly, In this case, Chicago could easily support 2 teams but why would the Bear approve a team at SF when they could make money sharing their own $tadium.

 

[Spitta Andretti]

Honestly, In this case, Chicago could easily support 2 teams but why would the Bear approve a team at SF when they could make money sharing their own $tadium.

Exactly. Why have competition when you can have a tenant instead?

 

[Montucky]

Honestly, In this case, Chicago could easily support 2 teams but why would the Bear approve a team at SF when they could make money sharing their own $tadium.

Its not up to the Bears. That's the point.

If super loaded multi-billionaire and top ten richest city in the world decide they want something it'll take a lot more than George McCaskey and Ted Phillips to stop them.

 

[Discus fish salesman]

Well I also asked why anyone has any faith in George McCaskey and Ted Phillips to finally do something right in their tenures running the Bears. Especially when that one thing is building a two billion dollar stadium on the eve of the worst economic downtown the country has faced in the last fifteen years, all with the (notoriously bold and crooked) city government of seventh richest city in the world actively working against them.

Didn't really get addressed at all.

Looks like Kevin Warren will be tasked with making this a success. Sorry that your lakefront dreams of Chicago bears lore are going down the drain

@Tillman33 I think you were devastated about the move too, right?

 

[Toast88]

Lol, no team is moving into the smallest stadium in the NFL.

 

[botfly10]

Looks like Kevin Warren will be tasked with making this a success. Sorry that your lakefront dreams of Chicago bears lore are going down the drain

@Tillman33 I think you were devastated about the move too, right?

tbh, I am super sad about the bears leaving the lakefront

I mean, I get it, but still sad imo

 

[Bearly]

The floor for being Chicago's second team is basically the ceiling for being the first team in Nashville, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Cincinnati, hell even Indianapolis. There will be a clamor to get into Soldier Field if the Bears vacate it, especially with the city actively pimping the site to anyone in the league willing to listen.

If the Bears move its a matter of when, not if, someone comes in to take their place. Los Angeles gives zero fucks about pro football yet the NFL found two teams to move in there in quick succession. Chicago is the next largest market in the country after LA and football obsessed, it's a no-brainer.

Not unless they get a much better deal than the Bear have. Those teams have no problem filling their stadiums and get the bennies.

 

[Aesopian]

Lol, no team is moving into the smallest stadium in the NFL.

I would love the idea for a team other than the Bears to help pay for this even though they would fail in Chicago.

Proposed renovation plan.

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

if the Bears move to Arlington Heights, why exactly would they not be the Chicago Bears anymore? I've said it previously and it's been mentioned in this thread; "New York" has 2 teams that play in New Jersey. they're the New York Football Giants and New York Jets, their team names don't identify with New Jersey. that's not even the difference of which city they play in, it's a complete different state.

on the other side of the coin, the Chargers, Rams, and Raiders all physically moved to entire different metros or states, that's why the locations in their names changed.

people from the suburbs tell the world they live in Chicago. I didn't, because I'm not a product of Chicago proper, I'm from the suburbs. I tell people now with my actual quote fingers I'm from "Chicago" here in Texas because they're not going to know what a Schaumburg is. they also think it's cold there in present day, and unlike Florida, I haven't heard anyone say "ohhh isn't it very windy there?" so alas, people can also tell the world their football team that plays in Arlington Heights is Chicago too then, right?

I don't give a **** what Montucky's view is on this, you can bury him for all I care, I'm just taking the logical approach. if you want to be snarky assholes and overthink this, then whatever. I guess it's the Arlington Heights Bears then because you aren't ever wrong.

the Jacksonville Jaguars aren't coming to Chicago. adding a 2nd team to Chicago isn't going to make the Bears better. I don't know what shit you're all on continuing to push that narrative. the Bears are ingrained in our culture, whoever the 2nd team is will fail just as much as they would in Jacksonville or Los Angeles. and please fucking stop with the adding a team to London talk, it's bad enough they wreck teams schedules with the travel to the other side of the world to try and appeal to a bunch of people that like their football more.

I hear you man. I live in Texas too and I say I’m from Chicago instead of Elgin. Because if I say Elgin, then I have to explain and ain’t nobody got time for that….

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

In the city, probably. But when you move to West Bumblefuck Rural Arlington Heights, they have the Pony Express ride in with a paper check

but they still wouldn’t be picking up their checks since a pony if delivering their checks………………

 

[Aesopian]

I hear you man. I live in Texas too and I say I’m from Chicago instead of Elgin. Because if I say Elgin, then I have to explain and ain’t nobody got time for that….

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Just say the suburbs of Chicago

 

[pdxbearsfan]

Jaguars aren't moving to Chicago either this is stupid stop it​

The Chicago Tribune went beyond lazy. This Sunday cover is a disaster.


By Alfie Crow@AlfieBCC Jan 18, 2016, 11:15am EST
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Jaguars aren't moving to Chicago either this is stupid stop it​

No chance in hell this happens, stop the click bait.

 

[Zerovoltz]

There is no reason for any team to move to Chicago. At this point in time, the NFL makes the vast majority of it's money on TV deals. TV Ratings in the Chicago Market would not improve enough to move the needle in media rights negotiations for the NFL to be compelled to have a 2nd team there.....or anywhere. NFL TV ratings in NON NFL markets are more or less the same as they are in markets that have a team. Basically, you don't gain any additional eyes on screens by moving a team or expanding in the US at this point.

The NFL doesn't even want to "expand" internationally as that goes....what they'd prefer is for an existing team to eventually move to Europe if possible, and one to Canada. You get alot more eyes on TV's in those markets and you don't have to split the pie with more new owners.

There is ZERO financial incentive for expansion, let alone some team moving to Chicago to be the 2nd team there.

That isn't to say anything negative about the Chicago market. I am sure it's big enough for 2....it was before 1960. Dallas could support 2. ...or Texas could support another in San Antonia...and you can go on about markets that would be good for the NFL/Fans....doesn't matter....there is no money in it for the current owners.