David Sampson

The Bears are not moving to Indiana, but they're threatening.

So page one of the new stadium playbook is when you're not getting the amount of money from the taxpayers that you want, you threaten to go somewhere.

So the CEO of the Bears released an open letter to the fans yesterday

saying the whole Arlington Racetrack Stadium that we told you was a go.

Actually, we can't get enough public money, so now we've got to look elsewhere, including Northwest Indiana, which is me running the Marlins saying, you know what, Miami, we're so angry, we're going to look in Broward.

like that'll really get everyone's going no i threatened to move to texas or vegas or oregon you don't threaten to move to northwest indiana but then the governor of indiana came out and said we are all in on getting the bears here to northwest indiana i laughed at the whole thing the whole thing's crazy david didn't you wear a cowboy hat in order to kind of like he did

I did.

I wanted people to think I was a Texan, a little 65-inch Jewish Texan.

I had cowboy boots, too.

Oh, no, you you want people fighting against each other as much as possible.

And when you can have two different state legislatures who are each fighting to give you money or a local municipality versus a state really for teams, it's just dollars.

And the more competition, the better.

And so the interesting thing about the Chiefs is Kansas.

It's like the person at the prom who is the last one.

and she's just or he's just standing there and then all of a sudden in baseball they used to be called slump busters and so what that means is it's sort of last and that's just what you're doing that's what kansas is to the chiefs it's a slump buster and that's what indiana is to the bears it's just not going to happen

Remember, I had some experience with Oklahoma City, and that is there was a minor league team there called the Oklahoma City 89ers.

I didn't work for Jeffrey Lurie at the time, but I went to Oklahoma City and was a part of that city many, many times.

And it was not a big league city by any stretch.

It was a straight minor league town.

And there was so much going on with the Seattle Sonics.