Bear Down and Out: Chicago’s Team Moves to the Suburbs | NBC Sports Chicago
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2023
- As the Chicago Bears look to leave Soldier Field for Arlington Heights, “Bear Down and Out” explores the potential move from all angles, giving viewers an inside look at the saga as it unfolds.
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Among mayor Lightfoot's many failures in her tenure, losing the Bears has to be the biggest all time fail.
I'm going to miss my bears soooo much I'm crying
is it just me or is this 'documentary' a total propoganda piece to justify the bears moving? im happy if local fans are happy but this piece creeps me out.
@@avmail7097 I feel like you paid no attention to any negative documentation that came from the City of Chicago towards the Chicago Bears. If there was ever a more blatant and obvious example of someone 'shooting themselves in the foot', the City of Chicago takes the cake. (Yes, I'm from Chicago and a lifelong Bears fan, and I see this failure plain as day.)
@@avmail7097 not really, not one liked the stadium except the government themselves. everyone didn't like the deal, and everyone could see the bears wanted to leave except the city, so yes they shot themselves in the foot
Taxpayers should not be paying for a domed Soldier Field. Taxpayers still owe over one hundred million on the awful remodeling of Soldier Field.
I loved how they did not shy away from ( ideologies aside ) that Lightfoot was just a god awful mayor
She just won re-election, what do you mean....?
Glad Lightfoot lost. Lightfoot and Majorie Tyler Greene are both divas that have no business in Government. And back to the reactions this extended news special, Lightfoot should have made that proposal to rebuild Solider Field or a new stadium elsewhere in Chicago proper early when he became Mayor in 2019.
Excellent presentation. Well done! I'm not even a Bears fan and I was sucked in. Here's to Arlington Heights and the future with the Chicago Bears! 🍹
From a raiders fan to Arlington Heights
I’m not a Bears fan either and I really enjoyed that video. I wonder what the fans are thinking. It’s 30 miles from Soldier Field so it’s not super far away but I have no clue how traffic and the roads are out there. Seems like a huge win for the fans to me.
@@EmeraldCityRiz As a Bills fan, this suburb fear is comical.i drive from Rochester for crying out loud.
If the bears leave the city they cant claim the same name. Nor should they leave. Once they do they don't exist anymore imo.
@@StaYUTI420 Tell that to the New York Jets and New York Giants. Or, the Washington Commanders, etc.. You can't get hung up on the city name. Your team plays in the smallest and biggest dump in the NFL. It's time for the future.
Went to SoFi for WrestleMania, went to Jerry World for the same event, Allegiant for DON, then you come back to Soldier Field and feel like you got left behind in the times. Glad the Bears are getting something better to play in.
Stellar reporting. This was an excellent piece. During the last remodel of Soldier Field I was an advocate for them remaining at Soldier Field. Primarily for nostalgic reasons. I’m older and wiser now and it’s plain to see that the NFL league is evolving at a faster rate than my beloved Bears and a significant reason for their stunted growth has been the relationship with the CPD and the increasingly caustic political environment in Chicago (I’m looking at you Lori Lightfoot & co.). The Arlington property is almost too good to be true with it being more centrally located near the Bears fan base, interstate access, a metro train station ON property, and literally hundreds of more acres compared to the ~18 acres at Soldier field. As a fan, I am thrilled with the changes the organization is making both on and off the field. My hat off to you.
Been to Chicago a few times and enjoyed the lakeshore without ever being there for a Bears game. I’m sure the move will actually work for all parties including the City of Chicago.
As a former conductor on the Union Pacific r.r. the train line adjacent to to the stadium is a huge asset. Fans can come from the city or burbs like 30 minute ride!
Exactly, now extend that line right to Soldier Field for the games. Right to the front door. This is not going to happen for 10 years if they build one. In the meantime.
Build ..... the Bears Hall of Fame, the Bear Casino, the Bear Hotel. The Bear living and working community, the Bear sports medicine community, the Bear practice facility, the Bear children's summer camp facilities. The Bears Events and Concert facilities. The Bear multi use Dome. For practice and highschool games. Etc etc etc.
@@albertpeterson5585 Which is probably comparable to driving on the Kennedy from the loop to Arlington Heights. But that's one advantage the Bears potential new stadium has compared to other new stadiums (AT&T, SoFi).
@@CreightonRabs ...probably closer to 60-90 mins door to door with football traffic and parking on a Sunday; the 50 min train time is the scheduled time with all stops; express trains from downtown to Arlington Park could run in 30 mins or less. (24 miles), as 77tungsten mentioned above.
@@albertpeterson5585 The Arlington Heights stadium has the potential to be the most transit-oriented friendly project outside the city if the village and the Bears want to take advantage of that Metra line. Whether or not fans want to take advantage of that train remains to be seen, but it certainly has the potential to help game-day workers who probably don't wanna deal with traffic. Regardless, it's a major upgrade over Soldier Field.
@@CreightonRabs I agree.
Seeing this just after the Chicago mayoral election makes me ecstatic Lightfoot was not re-elected into office.
Dome Dump...Kap keeping it real 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The smartest man in this documentary is Mr. James Butts, mayor of Inglewood. All the city had to pay for was the service construction and that will be paid from the stadiums taxes by 2025, after that those taxes will be all income for the city.
10/10 documentary 🔥 well explained and detailed.
Congratulations to the Bears for having this commissioned and distributed for them.
As a Packers fan I am excited for the Bears and fans to have this opportunity. Our rivalry deserves the best. This chance for the Bears to escape being pulled into and dragged down by city politics and to masters of their own destiny is a Godsend. Well done, good luck, and we'll see ya in the fall. One last thing, c'mon Bears fan stop acting like the team is moving to San Antonio or Portland. FFS is only this far I I on the map.
One plus about Arlington Heights is that it's not far from O'Hare Airport. Someone my have already mentioned that. On a lighter, but true note, there would have been no "Fog" Bowl in Arlington Heights back in 1988 playoffs. The fog was an extremely local lakefront phenomenon on an unseasonably mild day(New Years Eve, I think). Bears did win that game, however. No one scored in the 2nd half. Conditions were fine for first half.
Yea I think the people complaining are a vocal minority. Most of the fans took the trains from the burbs, only to have to grab something else to get to the stadium because the walk is ridiculous. Now some will drive, and others will still take the same train however avoiding the second step and, lets face it, a city I want to spend less and less time in.
@@heefie8659 chicago is a beautiful city, you're just older and spend more time getting scared by the media.
@@Leverag Right everybody just gobbles up media like it's truth, see for yourself...
@@stephenkammerling9479 Yeah, that was a memorable game for all the wrong reasons (unless you're a Bears fan).
I was working there in the area when they were piling money into soldier field. Tradesmen were driving into the job site at 3 in the morning then sleeping at the site before the shift would start at 7. I think that says a lot about how impractical the location actually is.
I've worked down there too. doesn't matter what time you come or go between 7 and 7, theres always traffic jams.
I am definitely not a Bears ..but I am a football fan and love the history of the franchise. I love the idea behind the move to Arlington. Chicago fans ,the city and the Chicago Bears deserve this.. let's go Chicago.. 💜🖤 Ravens fan💜🖤
“A domed DUMP…….!” - This pretty much says it all!!
Great production quality here. What a good documentary done by NBC Chicago. Good work.
That was really well produced. I learned a lot! Thank you!!!
This was awesome. Please continue with updates
Fantastic piece! I’ve been out of the game. I’ve been in CA since 2005, but man I’m shocked it went this far. It’s a no brainer that the Bears go to Arlington Heights. Makes complete sense. It’s next to O’Hare for god sakes!!! It’s right in the Bears lap. I hope it goes down. I love the Bears. I grew up north side, so Arlington Heights is “neighborhood” for me and lots others too. Forget going into the city. As long as infrastructure is made to get people into and out of Arlington Heights, it’s no doubt homerun. I’d be concerned though if I was a resident if they half ass this project.
It you watch a video on Hallas Hall and any player in it you will see it looks as good as Penn State.
I am in agreement as to how much it makes sense. It's also next to a major highway int rte 53 and the train from downtown Chicago and the NW suburbs, has a stop right there.
SoFi Stadium is a 21st century masterpiece that proves a city government does not have to bury itself in bond debt to build a stadium to attract an NFL team. From now on, no city should every burden itself with baseball or football stadium bond debt. If the people who want to build a baseball or football stadium do not have the money pay for every inch or their stadium and its infrastructure, it doesn't get built.
Or you can end up without a team like Sandiego…….Remember the Chargers?
As a New England Patriots fan, I really enjoyed this. I remember as a kid watching the Bears-Patriots Super bowl and being absolutely crushed when my Patriots was destroyed by Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Willie Gault and William "The Fridge" Perry. I also remember that rap song they made that was absolutely cringey. I also remember playing Mike Ditka Football game on my Sega Genesis and how much i love the game. Good luck to the Bears!!!
I have been following this move closely. I had never seen the emails before. Great work on this one!
Bravo! Well done across the board!
No-brainer for the Bears; owning is way better than renting. I live in NJ. When I was a kid, the Giants moving from NYC was controversial. But Giants Stadium, and now MetLife Stadium have worked out pretty well, I'd say. Football stadiums are just perfectly suited for the suburbs.
A stadium that is the league's smallest, with no parking, no naming rights, with the worst playing surface. And yet we're $640 million in the hole, with taxpayers on the hook for another 100 years. So Illinois. So Chicago. That said, this is an amazing story. Superbly done.
Richard Daley made terrible financial decisions for the city and left us all left to pay for it many years later. The parking deal and the SF renovations both are beyond terrible.
@@DailyRants89 Because politicians don't care about the long-term they only care about the next election.
League smallest means nothing when you never going to sellout the league biggest continuously if you put out a losing product year after year.
@@DailyRants89 have you ever set foot in that stadium?
And what parking problems? There 20K parking spaces under ground a free shuttle ride away or 1 mile walk. Which I have done 100 times before. You want too tail gate, get up early and tail gate. And park close in. It's like this in every city that has football.
The debt for Soldier Field will just continue to grow. =They have no interest in paying down the principal.
Watching this makes me really appreciate what the Packers have going for them. Lambeau field is straight up built for football, and I love it. All these new stadiums are like oversized malls.
We could only be so lucky.
The Packers and everything they stand for is true American spirit. Work hard, stay humble, take pride in what you do, and DO NOT give up what you truly love! F corporate America, us poor make you corporate America what you are, no one ever forget that. Go Pack Go!!!
@@n0tawhale902 well America sucks so I guess that tracks 😂
@@phildeiner7757 That make sense to you? Because whatever you said doesn't coherently make sense to me as a rebuttal and my assumption is you don't have a basic HS diploma and you have special needs. Ask your caregiver for electric-shock therapy, it'll help you. :)
Packers are owned by the fans and not a billionaire, so they can make decisions that are best for the team / the fan base and not just about making money. The model is so successful that the league has banned future teams from adopting it because it’s too dangerous for the owner team’s owners.
The world is better when Chicago is competitive
Definitely
I think the voters of Chicago made it clear how they feel about Lightfoot's last 4 years as mayor.
time to see if we get a corrupt cop mayor or someone who might (MIGHT) actually bring change!
Yuuuup
And they voted in an equally bad male version of herself
They voted in a worst person . You get what you vote for .
As someone who lives 10 minutes away from the racetrack. I am excited hopefully my cost of living doesnt outpace me loo
It will.
Thank uou for this. Loved it as a die hard bears fan but even more now as a suburb homeowner closer to Arlington heights lol.
Be ready for that Stadium to drop the property value of your home
This was interesting to watch as a Packers fan, a young one at that. For my whole life, Favre and Rodgers dominated the Bears. I feel like when I’m older the Bears will settle down and start to return to some success.
If there is an Emmy for "Best Long Form Sports Documentary" then this video deserves to be nominated.
Thanks for uploading full episodes since many people dont have access
Agreed. I live in North Texas and obviously wouldn't have NBC Sports Chicago on my cable system, but this was a well produced and researched piece.
such a great piece... well done!
Great video I’m so excited for AH!!
This was well put together. I wish the bears luck in their new home.
My Dad got season tickets when the Bears moved from Wrigley and "expanded" to Soldier field back in 1971. I was there for '85. I also remember that the team was supposed to go to Halas' son Mugs, but he died in 1979. Shortly after that Halas hired Ditka, and they won. But they haven't won since. If you want to know why, read Mike Royko's column from January 5, 1993. As long as the McCaskeys own the team, they will not win, no matter how much Virginia wants it to how cool a new stadium is. They need to sell to a fan of the team who wants to win at every level and can afford to win at every level.
Another Chicago story: Ray Kroc grew up a huge Cubs fan. He went to the Wrigley family and offered them a god-awful amount of money to turn over the loser Cubs. He had big plans to sink all his money into making them a winner. They said no, he got the Padres as an expansion team and said bad things about the Cubs/Wrigley for the rest of his life. The dude could carry a grudge. It is in the book, "Grinding it out" by Ray Kroc.
I think his story carries water.
@@Redmenace96 Yet another story! In the early '70's John Allen was going to sell the White Sox to owners that were going to move them to St. Pete Florida, and Charles Finley wanted to move his Oakland A's to the south side - THE Oakland A's that won 3 straight WS! Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, et al, but old Bill Veeck somehow put together enough money to buy the team and the south side had nothing but bargain basement teams until Eddie Einhorn and Jerry Reinsdorf bought the team. Chicago could have had a baseball winner in the '70's!
The old soldier Field looked great, it would be cool if it was reverted back to its old form
I'm going to miss soldier field if the bears move so much history
They kept the best parts in the renovation. The old bowl looked awful.
Keep it there! There's nothin' wrong with the stadium.
2/3 of the seats were in the end zones, no thank you.
Soldiers Field and the spot were Soldier Field is is just gorgeous but changes sometimes are needed and its time for better things so lets go Chicago the future is bright 🐻⬇️
🔥Just Don't change my name
I'm CHICAGO BEARS 🔥
Man... that was a GREAT watch! I live in Portland, Oregon. Thank you for the upload. I felt like I was in CHI watching this.
Portland even worse than Chicago. Feel sorry for you
@@richardnelson3227 you know it, bub. Our City Council & mayor are the worst. Couldn't govern a field trip to the john. At least you guys are in the Big Leagues. *Go Bears.
The guy's face during the sofi tour 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'm all for the move LFG 🐻⬇
This was a great report. It drew me in and I live in NYC, have for decades. Originally from Cleveland and some of this reminds me of sports talk there from the 1970s. They were always talking about fixing up that old pig of a stadium that the original Browns played in. That didn't work out too well for anybody in CLE. I don't know anything about Chicago's geography, but this doesn't seem like it is too far way out in the boonies somewhere.
wonderful piece
Thank you for uploading this! This was a great history lesson for a guy born in 1990.
We're on the way to Arlington Heights 🙌🏽.
I was born in 1990 too! Small world! (im joking)
Meanwhile the Chicago Fire will remain at soldier field
I’m a Packers fan and even I want the Bears to get this new stadium, not because I want it to help them win, but because I’m a native of the Chicago suburbs I care a great deal about what it could represent for the region as a whole. I want to see a Super Bowl, the Final Four and other big events coming to the area.
Bears fan here and what they did with Lambeau was wonderful. Its a pleasure to visit and you can feel the history. Same with Notre Dame Stadium. Solider Field should be in that regard but it’s not, time to start over and this time hopefully get it right
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Packer fan born in Chicago? Oh kayy.
@@powerboon2k it’s a lot of those things in the city it’s not to the ordinary.. but he did say suburbs
Always appreciate the talented Leila Rahimi .
Would have dem' high heels facing the ceiling in no time!!!
@@manuelnarvaez958 Stop being a PIG.You would have no chance whatsoever.
About time faithful fans will attend games or watch them like everyone else and root for them .
Great job guys. Great piece. Bear Dahn
Great production!!! 💯👏 🐻 ⏬️
Reminds me of the Atlanta Braves when they left the city and went to Marietta. I actually like the look of Soldier Field as a tourist, I had no idea all this was going on though.
Great documentary!
Been a fan of the bears since I was born in the 95 but I won’t go to a game because of the traffic in the city the headache of getting inside the stadium
The stadium is a dump
I had the time of my life at the 2010 NFC Divisional Game at Snowy Soldier Field. Unfortunately, Chicago of today is different than it used to be. It’s time to move the team to Arlington Heights. Make a venue like the one In Minneapolis.
The one thing that jumps out at me about the plans is that, unlike other newer stadiums located away from a downtown center (hello, AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas), you have existing rail service via METRA, including the existing Arlington Park station. I'd think you'd also need major road improvements (Route 53 and US 14/NW Highway) to accommodate increased game day traffic. But, it'd definitely be an upgraded experience compared to attempting to get to Soldier Field.
For sure improvements to 53 need to be done, including extending it north past Lake Cook road which has been discussed in the past.
Loved this!
A small point made was public transportation around Soldier Field. When I go to Soldier Field, I take the Metra to OTC, The Green Line to Roosevelt and then hike the rest of the way. Traffic around the field is terrible. It is faster to walk then take the bus. The old Horse track at Arlington Park already has a Metra train stop on the UPNW Line. The UPNW Metra runs between Harvard, IL and OTC Downtown Chicago (about 5 blocks northwest of the Sear's Tower). At the UPNW Jefferson park stop, you can transfer to the CTA Blue Line train which ends at Ohare Airport.
Outstanding piece; Chicago is run by folks who couldn’t manage a Burger King, no surprise they bungled the deal
Great job on the video!
@NBC Sports Chicago while i am more a hockey guy, this was another 🔥video. it was so worth watching the full 50 minutes. also really enjoyed the patrick kane TV work you guys did a few days ago. 💙
i loved the attention to detail and the great comments from a variety of folks involved with the stadium situation...and that american candor with the opinions from the interviewees.
one thing that boggles my mind is how can you have the 3rd biggest TV and fan market in the country, yet has had the smallest stadium in the nfl for decades??
the bears absolutely need to follow thru with arlington heights. looking forward to seeing further information come out as developments occur. sorry but not sorry, that lori lightfoot and the chicago city council must be smoking some good crack if she and the city thinks putting a dome on a "re-imagined" yet obsolete soldier field is going to be the answer for the bears and the city collectively.
cheers 🍻from southern ontario, canada 🍁
Lightfoot's already lost her re-election bid
Are u an Nbc employee?
@@bobbowie9350 i am a canadian. i have nothing to do with NBC.
Very well done. As an outsider I am happy that the Bears are going to move forward and have a place that will benefit all the community! How is the city of Chicago going to pay down all that debt?
nicely orchestrated, solid reporting.
This was a propaganda piece specifically curated to help the Bears move to a stadium and help convince taxpayers to fund it
Literally every person who knows anything about Finance knows that stadiums are a black hole of money for the people. Why do you think billionaire owners insist that other people pay for stadiums? If they were profitable the Billionaire's would happily build them themselves?
Bears were like "fuck you....we're outta here"
Absolutely. They packed up all five wins and headed west. Good for them.
@@NewPragmatic FGB
Conversely, you have a team like the Chargers who thought they were too good to stay in the suburbs of San Diego and decided it was downtown San Diego or they're relocating. They're now in a hi-tech stadium in a Los Angeles paying rent to the Rams. The problem is their "home" games sound like the loudest road games.
Bear fans, the die-hards like myself at 59, I want a stadium, so I'm coming to Disney with my family to watch our team the Chicago Bears. The new boss makes it happen.
A lot of good ideas and opinions shared.
It’s about time!!
Great job Lori..
I grew up right across sofi, and its amazing. I have been to a Bears game at Soldier Field and the fans are passionate , but the gameday experience was the worst.
As a life long Bears fan living in the suburbs of Chicago, there is nothing more unpredictable than I-55 on a Sunday. Getting to the stadium can take anywhere from under 30 minutes to hours.
The new stadium should hopefully get right as my son gets old enough to enjoy going to a game with me. Can't wait.
Being a bulls fan I was so happy during the time he played on the Bulls. Always much love for Drose
My Uncle Walt played on the 1946 Championship Bears Team. There’s a picture of PaPa Bear on his shoulder hanging on after the game.
This was a great synopsis with wonderful guests. Thank you NBC Chicago.
Bucket List for me to even GO there let alone play!!!
Love it!
Well done
awesome, great job putting this together. Learned some and really really hoping the staduim gets built. Would love to take my family to a bears game but navigating the city and just trying to get into soldier field is enough of a headache i stopped going
It’s gonna be even worse getting to a game in AH😭
Fluff piece
Packers fan here…
The Bears need to get the hell out of Soldier Field, and play in a huge stadium in Arlington Heights. What LA did was so ingenious that it practically transformed Inglewood, and on top of that placed the Rams as a franchise onto a different stratosphere. The Bears are a sleeping giant residing in a huge metro that needs something more extravagant than what it currently has. Arlington Heights happening would convince me to go to Chicago to check the place out, and maybe even catch a Packers-Bears game there… despite me being in “enemy territory!”
Juicy video!!! Arlington Heights can’t wait for ground to break! Bear dahhhn 🐻 ⚡️
Edit: I went to the Rams/Bears SNF game at Sofi. Fields ran his first in and fked up against the Browns and Lions.
Great video! It got me thinking about why the Chicagoland Speedway located in Joliet has closed but mayor Lightfoot is now hosting a NASCAR race in downtown Chicago?!
It's sad, but Lori Lightfoot blew it as Mayor in keeping the Bears in Chicago.
They could have built a brand new stadium on 87th Lake Shore drive , the Old Steel mill would of been perfect
😂 they would've had to renovate that entire area
@@fromtheraq3898 chief.
@@fromtheraq3898 so
*Nowhere in this video.*
Does it state the Arlington Bears & the City sought neutral sites...
@@fromtheraq3898 *Infrastructure* will have to be done in Arlington, as well... Bears were a goner-anyway...
A very good video. Great information I’m a Cowboys fan but I the Bears get the new stadium built. Good luck
As much as I think Soldier Field has interesting features that could have been amplified to its advantage (unique location near central Chicago, subway access, proximity to waterfront), a bad deal is a bad deal. If a stadium is no longer up to the task of modern day demands and potential, it makes logical sense to look elsewhere rather than to try to maintain a sunk cost.
However I find it baffling that with the capitalistic traits and corporatization of US franchise sports, private stadium development and ownership seems relatively rare across the major leagues; 3 in NFL (Gillette, MetLife, SoFi), 1 in MLB (Cleveland), 12 in NBA. I know the city often has a stake in the performance and utility of the stadium, but it seems unfair to take so much of tax money for stadiums. The new Bills stadium will be ~$1.4bil with taxpayer money covering $850mil, or just over 60%. Labor costs and local laws regulating stadiums likely have a lot of influence on the cost, but as an example Wembley costed $1.25bil (most expensive in England), while 7 NFL stadiums eclipse that figure, with SoFi really going to town at ~$5bil.
As soulless as billionaire-dominated franchise US sports has become, stadiums should have been a privately-funded affair all along (assuming that all other restrictions and laws are abided to in the process of building those stadiums). There might genuinely be some stadiums that serve a significant municipal purpose, but most team owners should be able to foot the bill and take the matters of planning and foresight into their own hands.
Point of the video:
McCaskey's need to sell
Very excited to see the BEars in a BRAND NEW FACITLITY in Arlington Park
I feel bad for bears fans losing their team to a nicer area. Their stadium is historic and legendary.
It was, before they renovated it. Its horrible looking now
Don’t us real die hard bears fans are happy they moving to get a new stadium soldier field really do sucks every since that renovation they should have took that renovation money n put it towards a new stadium
Not really. The Bears best football was played at Wrigley Field.
Soldier field was only ever meant to be a stopgap but they could never find a long term solution.
But Soldier Field sucks, and always has.
My feeling is not until the McCaskeys sell the team to a deep pocket owner, nothing will get done.
My feeling is not until the McCaskeys sell the team to a deep pocket owner, nothing will get done.
WOW!
I always liked soldier feild.. I saw Walter Peyton and the Fridge play there.
The fact that they didn't do to Soldier Field what they did to Lambeau and preserve the historic design was probably their first mistake
Coming from a lifelong illinois resident and bears fan, I wouldn't be opposed to the state chipping in to help offset the cost of a new stadium. Lord knows our state government has squandered more $ on useless things. Also, congrats to the city of Chicago for ousting Beetlejuice as your mayor.
Good story. Commander fan here. This reminds me of my team wanting a stadium in the early 90s with a female mayor that never was a part of local politics again. RFK was a dump and then owner Jack Kent Cooke finally built what we know as FedEx Field. Problem was, he died and never developed the property and then Dan Snyder leaches on the franchise for 23+ yrs. Hopefully the development around the stadium does happen. The real problem I see is if the McCaskeys are cash poor, realistically they can't build this place on their own. I do think a serious minority stake may need to be sold to obtain the capital.
Wtf is a Commander?
Remember Raljon? 😁
@@two3D Of course I remember. After his two kids, Ralph & John. I think the stadium had their own postal code for a while. Since Papa Halas had two kids, probably could nickname the new place Georgie or Virg. Those sounded horrible, I know.
The problem is not the new stadium it’s the fact that is an hour north of the city in the middle of nowhere. The Lions moved all the way out to Pontiac 40 minutes away and came back 25 years later to downtown. Suburban stadiums don’t work well. Bears need something closer.
That was the same complaint Patriots fans had when the team first moved to Foxborough in 1971. The location was terrible ... the stadium was a dump ... etc. etc. etc. Funny how a new owner (Robert Kraft), a new stadium (Gillette Stadium) and actually fielding a winning team can bring crowds to a location that's not the easiest to get to from Downtown Boston (or, for that matter, Providence). And, it goes without saying that the Dallas Cowboys seem to be quite happy in Arlington, Texas (which sits between Dallas and Fort Worth, but is really closer to Fort Worth than Dallas).
Buffalo adores it's suburban stadium, and the new one is going right across the street.
@@seltonk5136 There was some debate on building a new dome stadium in Downtown Buffalo. However the high costs plus some strong neighborhood opposition, made the current Bills Owner and NY Gov. Hochul(a native of Buffalo the first Non Metro NYC area born Governor) in modern history, just decided to pick a new stadium on site of the long time one.
@@americangiant1003 That's the $64k ? (will the surrounding neighborhoods support it?). Phoenix got both an NBA arena & a MLB stadium downtown because hardly any1 was living there. The area had a "Dead after 5" image & city leaders wanted to perk it up so they were willing to let Suns & D-backs owner Jerry Colangelo get what he wanted.
Nice job
Nice video, gotta say though if you used to be a St. Louis Rams fan, you might wanna skip the 1st 10 or so minutes or you're gonna be PISSED.
'vertical nature of the stadium'. LOVE IT! Old Tiger stadium in Detroit was that way. I know there were obstructions but that 'vertical nature' felt like you were a part of what was going on. Joe Falls, Detroit News writer, went to Comerica Park for 1 game and left during the 4th inning. "Can't see a d##n thing!"
Comerica is beautiful. Looks good, you can see the Detroit skyline, amenities are great, but if you come to watch BASEBALL it's awful! Good work SoFi.
47:35 can't help but think "It's the hope, that kills you"
I'm a huge Chicago bears fan ..... 🧡💙🧡💙 if the bears move away from soilder field I will be sad so much history in that stadium 🏟 but I mean A new stadium 🏟 would be cool GO CHICAGO BEARS BEAR DOWN 🧡💙 ARLINGTON HIGHTS ILLINOIS
Wow! My Grandfather an Irish CFD, my Mother was born at 6933 S. Chicago Ave in "33", the house is still there, my Grandfather Edward Byrne move into the City from Ireland 1874. My Father Born in the city in "21" fought in WWll, Machinery Mover Local 136, Me 3819 S. Halstead Bridgeport and my brothers too! My first football love was the Chicago Cardinals a team started by two Irish Brothers in "89" The Cardinal is Illinois State Bird! Played at Comiskey Park on the Southside the working part of the city but in "61" moved to St. Louie broke are hearts! But the Bears Won the "63" NFL Championship after they killed Kennedy!! We forgot about Cardinals and Southside became Bear Fans! But we still hated the Cubs!
My family like alot of immigrant families where in the city before any professional of factory football teams were! So Chicago Football is part of the city's DNA and was supported by mostly working stiffs from the city! Unless they were Winning! Then people outside the city would claim them! Can't kick your bosses ass! Without losing your job! Go to Wrigley or Souldiers and watch the Bear's kick someone else's!
If Papa Halas The Greatest Coach/Player Owner Ever! Unless there's another guy? That recovered a Jim Thorpe fumble and ran it back 89 yards for a TD? Or after being down 24-0 at half-time in "64" and spending the half wrestling on the floor with the Greatest DE Doug Atkins! Because Papa had a water or orange juice but no Cokes! Which they won 27-24! Brickhouse later claimed it was the greatest half-time speech ever! That man took $5000 bucks and moved Decatur Staleys to Chicago to become The Bears!
And after watching this video, knowing how the Chicago Park District has problems just keeping to public pools open in the summer! I'm nolonger gonna dog this move! VIRGINIA your Father was a visionary and a great leader that could read the tea leafs before most people could open the box! The Halas's and Chicago Bears deserve? No have earned the right to have a great sport complex to let everyone know what A Great Team it is! That's not lip service! go to Canton and truth will slap you in face! Like a North wind blowing across the Lake in January! Chicago Bears would be the Bears by any other name! Bear Down!
One thing about these mega stadiums! The cost to attend one game for two people can easily cost $1000 or more. But the little guy can go if shopping ticket prices and tailgating rather than buying stadium beer and food inside.