00:00This story with the Chicago Bears, you and I have been going back and forth with this thing here.
00:06Are they really moving out of Chicago?
00:09They don't have a site.
00:11They have where they'd like to put it, but they don't even have a site yet.
00:14This is a long process to go, Dan.
00:17I think that what's funny about this is it's become a political football because they're blaming Governor Pritzker
00:24and they're blaming Brandon Johnson talking about Bear fans.
00:28It's the same Bear fans who have crucified the McCaskies for 40 years all of a sudden seem to think
00:34that the McCaskies
00:35who are inherited an $8 billion team don't have to pay property tax.
00:43And there's been a lot of stuff that's been uncovered.
00:46For instance, the Chicago Bears have a guy named Patrick Ryan who's worth $11 billion and owns the Ryan Sports
00:55Group.
00:55And he's a minority owner of 20%.
00:58His partner, Andrew McKenna, owns two of the 20% and died.
01:05Okay.
01:07And that 20% saved the Bears from being in debt in 1990.
01:11Do you know the Bears fought him for 1% of the two instead of just giving him the 2
01:16%?
01:16This is what we're dealing with in this town.
01:19The Chicago Bears right now are getting the worst PR they could have after a beautiful season.
01:27They are absolutely – look, Pritzker was six years old when I was first promised the stadium, the governor.
01:34And Brandon Johnson wasn't alive.
01:36And the McCasky family, Virginia, okay, they weren't supposed to own the team at that time.
01:43And they never were in the plans.
01:45So you got a group of people that were never going to be included in any plans to move the
01:51team.
01:51I already got a name for them.
01:53They're the Hammond 219ers, as far as I'm concerned.
01:58Because, you know, people are trying to say, oh, they got to go where it's better for them.
02:03You just explained Stan Kroenke.
02:05If you don't have liquid cash, you shouldn't own an NFL team.
02:09If you're the only team that doesn't own a stadium by now, you are incompetent and shouldn't own an NFL
02:15team.
02:16And if you think moving, I can't wait if they do move.
02:21Here's what nobody's looking for.
02:242031, let's say.
02:28Opening day.
02:29Welcome, everybody, to Hammond, Indiana.
02:32The whole town will sink, even the people that supported it.
02:36That they'll finally realize there's no more trekking to Wrigley, no more trekking to Soldier, which they gladly do, than
02:44Hammond and Hammond.
02:45Tell me something, Mike.
02:47Who do you look at with responsibility?
02:50Do you look at it more at the McCaskies?
02:52Do you look at it at city officials?
02:54Do you look at it at the governor here on where we are right now?
02:57That this is even a conversation, Mike.
03:00I mean, who's really the person that is really pushing them out the door?
03:07There are two people to blame here.
03:09Pritzker will get the blame.
03:11You know, Brandon Jackson is just a goof.
03:13He doesn't have an idea.
03:14Okay.
03:16You know, I don't know if he could get a job collecting shopping carts at the local shopping center parking
03:22lot.
03:22And Kevin Warren has not been mentioned in this discussion, who was hired to bring a stadium, bought Arlington Heights.
03:30They knocked down a world-class international race course.
03:34360 acres, bigger than Solphi.
03:38Perfect.
03:38A train, which it was a racetrack.
03:41And in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, 60s, people took the train to Arlington.
03:46Got off, walked five feet.
03:48They're in the door.
03:50Remember, the train station in Hammond is five miles away.
03:53Infrastructure is going to be paid by the blue state part of Indiana, while the Republican governor will get the
04:01credit.
04:02But people keep bringing up to me New York and how it worked in New Jersey.
04:07It didn't work.
04:08They were forced to do it.
04:09And, of course, people went because it's not that far.
04:12But nobody ever brings up Pontiac.
04:14Nobody ever brings up Landover.
04:16And this is the situation.
04:17Bear fans, 50% of them, I guarantee you.
04:22And the season ticket holders that they're taking advantage of, I can't wait till the cancellation of skyboxes.
04:28I can't wait.
04:30Because Hammond, if you think that every major corporation, they're moving out of Chicago as it is.
04:36Now they're going to want businesses to travel to Hammond and buy skyboxes.
04:41They'll do it for a couple of years.
04:42But let me just say this.
04:44The Bears are off a winning season.
04:47If they have a losing season, I've been there.
04:50Soldier Field is half full.
04:52What do you think Hammond's going to be if the Chicago Bears go 6-11 in a season?
04:58They'll have empty seats galore.
05:00It will be half filled like they've been half filled in Chicago.
05:03The only time they were never half filled was when they were at Wrigley Field.
05:07Those were loyal blue-collar fans, and they've been messaged out.
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