Dan Wiederer

was leverage when it was announced in december was right but it wasn't strictly leverage it was also a plan b which you need to have in order to produce any sort of movement anywhere and so now uh they are clearly marching down the path toward their plan b with an eye looking back over their shoulder as you just read in some of the comments you you just had from bill cunningham to say does anybody want to keep us here are you sure you sure you don't want us to go that's called

I mean, that's really what it is.

It's partially a pressure play, but also a move where it's like, if y'all aren't going to get your stuff in order, then we don't have really any choice at this point but to march across state lines and continue on exploring the project in Indiana.

Now, with that said, we can get into this in a minute.

There are probably two dozen really significant boxes that they'd have to check before we got to a point where we went out with the headline and said the Bears are definitely moving their home games to Indiana.

Well, if this is a game of chicken, if you guys have ever played chicken, you've got to make your decision on when you want to get out of the game of chicken, right?

And that's kind of what's going to happen here with the state of Illinois and with people with the Bears is they're trying to figure out what makes the most sense

In this process, again, like there's not even a site selected for the stadium in Indiana for the Bears.

So like that's the next step is like identify the site where the stadium is going to go.

Now there's going to be environmental studies needed.

There's going to be traffic studies needed.

You're going to you're going to have to figure out what's going on in that land.

You're going to have to figure out.

The structure of the public financing, you're going to have to work with the Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority to find the process of getting all the revenue figured out and all the money and where it's coming from and where it's going.

You're going to have to eventually go to the league and you're going to have to meet with the stadium committee.

You're going to have to meet separately with the finance committee.

So when I talk about this long checklist here that needs to be checked before we put out that the Bears are going to Indiana headline, you understand that it's a long way away.

And you understand that right now, the next process in this or the next step in this process is the people in Illinois deciding how urgent they want to be about this.

Do they want to call an emergency session here to hammer this out?

Do they want to call the Bears bluff and say, well, we'll get back to this in November?