00:00So I get it.
00:00At one time, there was a different name,
00:02but moving the Bears out of Chicago into Hammond.
00:07I saw George McCaskey yesterday during the broadcast,
00:10during the exhibition game, and he was talking,
00:12look, you see the skyline of Chicago in the background
00:15from a golf course in Hammond, Indiana.
00:19Do you believe the commissioner of the National Football League,
00:23Jason Cole, will allow the Chicago Bears,
00:27that'd be like moving the Green Bay Packers,
00:30to Toronto, Canada, to move them out of the city of Chicago?
00:37Well, he kind of doesn't have a whole lot of say about it, does he?
00:41You go where the money is, where the stadium is,
00:43and where somebody's going to support you,
00:45and Indiana's going to do it.
00:47Now, I think it's a shame,
00:49but I do think this is ultimately a leverage play
00:51to get whatever they want out of Chicago
00:53and to get the deal out of Chicago that they need to have.
00:56So, I still think there's more to play out here.
01:01But yeah, I can see them going to Hammond, Indiana.
01:04I can see them going to a brand new place.
01:06It's not that far away.
01:09Look, the Giants and the Jets play in New Jersey,
01:12and people got over that a long time ago, right?
01:18Yeah, it's against tradition.
01:20But I've also been to their home stadium.
01:26It's terrible.
01:29It's absolutely, Soldier Field is terrible.
01:32I know that there's some semblance of the old structure there,
01:37but that sort of spaceship that they put around it
01:43made it look awful, and the little sight lines are awful.
01:46I mean, it's not comfortable.
01:48It's not convenient.
01:49The parking is awful.
01:50Everything about Soldier Field is a bad situation.
01:53So, they've got to solve it.
01:56How they choose to solve it,
01:58it would be a shame if they weren't in Chicago, you know,
02:01if all of a sudden they were the Decatur Staley's again
02:05or the Hammond Staley's or whatever they want to be called.
02:09But this is about money, and money moves the needle.
02:13I guess if you can move the Chiefs out of Kansas City
02:16and out of Arrowhead,
02:18you can move the Chicago Bears to Hammond, Indiana, right?
02:21All right.
02:22Yeah, but the Chiefs haven't really checked.
02:24Arrowhead's not even in Kansas City that much,
02:26but that's a different discussion.
02:28So, there you go.
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