Jeff Buchholz

And boy, the phrase, I am sure, was doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

He can't guarantee that in five or ten years, the state of Indiana isn't going to have to go to the residents and say, hey, we need to help front this because the Bears can buy the stadium for whatever the outstanding debt is.

But there's a scenario where—

they aren't in a position to do that, and the state of Indiana winds up being on the hook.

And Governor Pritzker made that point yesterday when we were talking to him down on the southwest side.

He said, I don't know if the taxpayers of Indiana really know what they're going to wind up getting socked with in taxes.

Are they going to be okay with that?

He said, I guess we'll see.

And I think I said on the show last week that people hate taxes, but they love football more.

So, I mean, maybe that's a moot point, but that is going to be something that, and as usual with something like this, that kind of gets rushed through at the last minute.

It's one of those things where we'll find out what's in it after everybody passes it.

Yeah, it's the hearing tomorrow morning of a committee in the House down in Springfield where they'll consider this proposal from Mary Beth Canty that would –

create the ability for the bears to negotiate long-term property tax rates.

We'll see what happens.

You know, everyone's weighing in now.

The governor has said he's not opposed to it.

So we'll see if it makes it out of committee, and then we'll see where it gets scheduled.

The House Speaker, Chris Welch, who is from Chicago, has a sort of an informal rule that he doesn't bring bills to the floor unless he can get at least 60 votes for it.

So he's reading the tea leaves and counting noses as much as everybody else is.

So we'll see what happens if it makes it out of committee.