Adam Hoge

Now, financially, the benefit of the Arlington Heights property always has been that you can own this whole development.

um, yourself and profit off it.

Now that remains to be seen with this Indiana deal, how exactly that's going to work.

When are the bears going to have actual full ownership of this?

How is revenue going to be shared from, let's say they put a concert in there.

It's going to have a roof.

So you can have concerts in January, February, March, whenever, when the weather's bad, all of that stuff is money that if you own the stadium goes in the owner's pockets and does not need to, uh, be shared with the players.

In Arlington Heights, it's very clear the Bears already own the property.

How that's going to work out in Indiana, I don't know yet, but it does seem like the Bears are going to benefit from it.

Maybe they don't quite benefit the same way as quickly as they would in Arlington Heights.

So that is one of the benefits of still being in Arlington Heights.

Now, the second is the PR hit.

We're all talking about this this morning.

There's a lot of fans upset.

They don't like the idea that the Bears will move out of the state of Illinois.

I'm getting texts from people all over that are laughing at this.

And there is that component of this too.

And it's the component that so many, including myself, have found it hard to believe in recent weeks as this has continued to advance in Indiana.

Would George McCaskey absolutely

actually leave the state of Illinois and is willing to take that hit as moving a team that was founded in the state of Illinois, been in Chicago since the second year the franchise existed, to actually move them out.