Mark Grody

Because they don't really need to have a plan right now in Indiana because they're still waiting to hear back from Illinois on what the plan is here.

It makes me wonder if there was another buyer out there, another offer on the table, and that's why they felt like they had to make the purchase at Arlington Heights.

That's the only thing that makes sense.

Otherwise, it is highly negligent to believe that they forced you to buy it.

If you don't have something else as an offer, why are you being forced to buy it?

That's the only thing that actually makes sense, Layla.

It's like, hey, we have this offer on the table, and George McCaskey and the Bears feel like they have to snap it up.

But I would say, even if that is the case...

They didn't do their due diligence of figuring out the tax certainty before making the purchase, and that's how they ended up here.

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.