Chris Emma
speaker
5,802 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Chris Emma’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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it's not enough for the Bears to say we want to do it.
You have to get 23 other owners to say you're allowed to do it.
The NFL is generally very sensitive about the quality of stadium deals done because the most recent deal becomes the most immediate precedent in the next inevitable negotiation with state and local governments aimed at trying to get
A pile of taxpayer money.
And that's the way the stadium politics game has played out for the NFL for 20 plus years.
And once they put two teams back in L.A., they lost their best leverage.
I think the vacancy in L.A.
helped the Vikings get their new stadium some 15 years ago once.
The Minnesota legislature became convinced of the reality that the Vikings would move if they didn't get what they wanted.
And that's what the Bears are stuck with.
They have to find a way to get the folks in Illinois to give them what they want.
And they have to be prepared if all else fails to go to Hammond because it's possible that this leverage play won't work and they will have to cross the state line.
You mentioned the NFL's part in this.
How much power or influence do you think the commissioner, Roger Goodell, might have in all of this?
And if the Bears really, really, really, really, really said they were going to go to Indiana and said that they've got a date where they're going to put shovels in the ground, does Roger, can he do anything about it?
Because obviously I'm assuming he wants the Bears to stay in Illinois and probably wanted them to stay in Chicago would be my guess.
All it takes is nine no votes to keep the bears from going.
And it would set up some interesting dynamics.
But this is what happens when you own a business, but you become part of a league with 31 other ostensibly competing businesses.
And we've seen litigation in the past.
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