There are murmurs, whispers, and threats the Chicago Bears might move to NE Indiana. I am beyond skeptical.
Fuzzy has a great breakdown at his place. The Mayor of Hammond (the basis for the fictional town in the movie A Christmas Story) thinks the stadium will generate significant new business, a “Bearsville ” outside the stadium.
Does he realize the team will only play 8 or 9 games a year in that stadium? No Ruth’s Chris nor high rise hotel can survive on traffic from game days only. Has he driven to Chicago and looked around st the entertainment offerings right around Soldier Field?
Exactly, and Chicago has far more going on than Da Region.
I think the Bears are using this offer as a velvet hammer to force Chicago and Illinois to a weaker negotiating position.
I’ve run across this strategy more times than I can count in negotiations. “We.don’t want to change, but your competition has a better deal on the table…”
If I was a betting man…I am pretty sure who is getting played here.
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Yep.
In fairness, and looking at, say, the Washington Redskins (I will not use that abomination of a name they switched to), there ain't much in Landover, MD, either...other than a lot of gang-bangers running around shooting things up. My office used to BE in Landover. There were parts of it we were warned to stay out of...and that was 20 years ago.
So there might be an analog for putting a stadium in Hammond there.
None of which changes what I said in my previous comment :)
I think if I cared I'd put more effort into a comment :)
Quit logicing. You'll only confuse 'em.
I just get hot whenever a publicly-funded pro sports facility is mooted. I've been angry about it here in Indy ever since Bill Hudnut proposed we build a football stadium despite not having a team to play in it, and got the legislature to allow him to add a 1% food and beverage sales tax surcharge to help fund it. Which, I should add, we are still paying, despite the fact the original stadium is torn down and gone...and another 1% on top of it to fund the Jim Irsay pleasure palace, er, stadium that replaced it.
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