Mike Pesca
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But the baseball and football are in the suburbs and they continue to be in the suburbs.
But then again, the sort of the Dallas Metroplex, is there a suburb anymore or is it just a series of cities?
Arlington is growing like crazy.
Frisco and Denton is growing like crazy.
So it may be that those are forward looking things.
But it is notable to me of the Chiefs made the decision to leave Kansas City, Missouri, and they're going to go to Kansas City, Kansas.
which means I don't know how many of their fans are going to do that, but I'm guessing they got a better deal from Kansas to develop in Kansas than in Kansas City, Missouri.
You've got the Chicago Bears threatening to move to another state and to pull what the Washington, then Redskins, now Commanders did by moving from the district to the suburbs and
Now they want to go back to the district because that's where their fans wanted them to be.
Meanwhile, the Bears, who have this incredible setup, Soldier Field in some ways is in the perfect location in a city, on the lake.
I think it should be a tremendous home field advantage.
Obviously, they want more luxury boxes.
They want to make more money out of these things.
But now they're talking about moving it to Indiana, to Northwest Indiana.
Is this really a good idea?
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I really want all of this there.
This is a case where I bring this up because I think the NFL as a league does not get involved enough in these stadium decisions.
The most egregious thing that they let happen that I still think is a stain on the NFL is letting the Chargers leave San Diego.
I mean, we now have a zombie franchise in L.A.