Best of the Bears: Stadium pursuit remains in holding pattern
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Why is the Bears stadium project stuck in a holding pattern?
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The Brad Biggs. Bigs time. Biggs. With Mully and Haw. Bigs Time. The Biggs report. With Brad Biggs. Bigs. Bigs time. Bigsig. His name is Brad Biggs. Brad Biggs talks football with you. Um curious how you uh feel about the idea of bare weather Going away if if you indeed get a enclosed stadium completed.
Uh yeah, well I heard a lot about bare weather um back in January, you know. This team from Southern California's gonna come in here and we're gonna expose them to bare weather and um they wound up with the W, so Um it's fun to think about snow flurries and uh braving uh the elements. I was out there myself, um but to host the number of events that we could host in a fixed roof stadium to be able to attract these major events which all along Chicagoland has lost out on, we think that will more than offset um the advantages. Oh bare weather.
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Morning, Brad.
Morning boys, what's going on? Well you uh you asked the question that uh George gave you the old uh Bears weather, bear schmether. I don't know I don't know how that uh a man named George Hallis McCaskey can dismiss what was one of the basic premises not only from his grandfather, but anybody that's ever coached the bears, this idea that ah we've got got the weather on our side and using it as a sort of psychological ploy turns out, when it comes down to business it means next to nothing.
Yeah, well you're not gonna be able to uh to sell events in your Stadium Three hundred of the days of the year if if you don't have a roof on it, right? So
but he could have answered it that way without throwing in the Rams victory. The
Rams scored seventeen points. Matthew Stafford was twenty of forty two. The best offense in football had three hundred and forty yards. Bad example.
Yeah, but the most recent example of a game where it was just butt cold outside, right? I I g I guess that's the And you created this,
Brad, I guess, you're right. Yeah. You created this whole controversy. Yeah,
you you
I
yeah stirred it up, Brad. I think you brought this storm to our front.
Um Bare weather has actually given them a significant advantage. If you if you take a close look at it. When the bears have a Good team. And in a good season. They're hard to beat when it's really, really cold at Soldier Field. When the Bears aren't good Um And they don't have a good season and it's butt cold at Soldier Field. They're not that difficult to beat. Um last year they were really good team and and they happened to get beat. Uh, but they won a couple they certainly uh had some triumphs in um chilly weather at home in Soldier Field. And who knows how many years we have left of that. You know, four, five, eleven. I don't know know. Uh but uh there'll be there'll be football on the lakefront tomorrow.
I'll be at uh preseason action and the regular season will be here uh in the near future.
Brad, good good column in the trib this morning. You write about incremental progress. What did you hear yesterday that was relevant?
Yeah. Not a lot. I the idea that maybe they could merge the two Hammond sites and make 'em one, however that's gonna work, I I don't know. Uh is that is that with traffic flow in mind? I I have no idea. Um we did hear uh of record revenue which uh
How does “bare weather” affect the Bears’ home‑field advantage?
smacks a little bit of uh, you know, your kid coming home and telling you uh how fat their paycheck was and uh then trying to hit you up for a little bit of gas money. Um It's not a perfect analogy, but uh
No, it's a it's a good one because you know, it's hey, build us a stadium, give us a break on our taxes, we've got record revenue. It it doesn't
yeah.
It was probably a mistake to reveal the the new sponsors and the record rever revenue in that fashion.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is the Bears stadium project stuck in a holding pattern?
0:01–5:06
2
How does “bare weather” affect the Bears’ home‑field advantage?
5:06–10:24
3
What are the arguments for moving the team to Indiana versus staying in Chicago?
10:24–14:48
4
How could a new roofed stadium boost Chicago’s ability to host major events?
14:48–20:06
5
What is the “Kansas Deal” and why do Bears executives reference it?
20:06–24:40
6
What tax incentives and revenue projections are being discussed for a new stadium?
24:40–29:19
7
Why are Caleb Williams and several starters sitting out the preseason opener?
29:19–34:47
8
How will the Bears’ preseason roster decisions impact the regular season lineup?
34:47–40:35
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