Mark Grody
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
847.
This is humorous to me.
On the text line, 847, Arlington Park was the big house on the corner that finally goes up for sale and you buy it without an inspection.
Several steps had to be taken.
Several steps.
And like I said, the whole thing is, yes, you can make that purchase if there are other people bidding on the land, but you got to get the tax certainty down or else you're going to be, I don't know, where we are now, several years later.
It may end up being the best deal for the Bears because, look, while it is costing the Bears lots of money to have taken as long as they have taken to put the proverbial shovels into the ground, as long as it ends up in Arlington Heights, it's going to be a win for the Bears.
They're doing a good job, in my opinion, of recreating.
I mean, look at what Indiana's offering.
Of engineering it backwards?
Yeah, look.
Again, Kevin Warren wasn't here when they made that land purchase.
Kevin Warren had to come in on the back end and try to figure things out.
And whether we want to talk about his failed attempts to turn what is now Soldier Field into a place for a new stadium or the fact that the Bears now have lost a lot of money waiting to put the shovels into the ground.
This is best case scenario now, is that Indiana is saying they will foot the bill and now you can get Illinois to give you what you want to build on your own land.
What's not believable about it?
It does to me.
Here's why.
Because everything he just said is factually correct.
Except for the very beginning where he says that fans will be, I guess, unaffected by a camera and the exact wording he used.