Anthony Herron

you know, somewhere in the league offices and just kind of felt that out a little bit before this ended up becoming public.

This is going to be a different venture for the Bears if that's the direction it ends up going.

The Chicago Tribune was on this story initially and apparently the Bears were in a position where they kind of needed to react to what the Tribune was putting out and

That seems to have induced this open letter just to kind of confirm from the Bears' perspective of where things stand on this issue.

But the Tribune was apparently all over this a little while ago and preparing to put it out.

So where we're at right now, the Indiana aspect of it is certainly what opened everyone's eyes and had mouths agape yesterday while we were in the midst of the final hour of our show yesterday.

How far down the road is this?

It's one thing in the abstract for Indiana to consider sites or for the Bears to say we're willing to consider Indiana.

Have there been substantive conversations already?

And if so, how far down the road are they?

Paris Schutz, Fox 32 political correspondent, our guest here on the Spiegel and Holmes Show.

Lawrence Holmes, Anthony Herod in for Speaks here on Chicago Sports Radio, 670 The Score.

So in a way, kind of dumb it down for me a little bit.

I ask you a question I'm not even completely sure you can answer in detail.

But of course, I cover the Big Ten.

Northwestern in Evanston has been in the midst of building a brand new stadium there for a few years now.

It'll be open next season.

They've been playing at Wrigley with some of their home games for a couple of seasons.

They've been able to get that done with private equity and the same people who always invest in Northwestern.

How does that differ?