We could be getting to the end of the Bears' stadium saga
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What recent developments are there in the Bears' stadium saga?
Well, there's other big news happening in the land of the bears. Monday morning, we're in the back half of May right now. There's word from around the league that the league meetings in Orlando this week will feature a special briefing by the league and the Bears to the 31 other clubs about the progress report of the stadium that they are trying to get built and launched somewhere. Right now, as most of the world knows, it is a two-horse race between Arlington Heights, where there used to be horse races, and Hammond, Indiana, where there's some refineries and some other things across the border in Indiana. The Illinois State Legislature, for people that need to know this, are in their final two weeks of the spring session.
It will close on May 31st.
What are the current options for the Bears' new stadium location?
So there is a push, I think, for a bill to be pushed through in form that can be voted on by both the House and the Senate. We have some audio that we're going to play in a minute by J.B. Pritzker. But knowing what you know now, Kevin, from sources, that there will be this special briefing in Orlando on Tuesday in front of the whole league, what do you make of where we stand now in a situation that seems to be spinning its tires in the mud way too frequently?
I wonder if somebody at that briefing is going to raise their hand and say, hey, George and Kevin, you guys got lapped by the Tennessee Titans. Yeah. Saw that this morning, that Nashville is going to host the Super Bowl in 2030. And I believe I saw our friend Pat Norton posted that if you look at the timeline – in terms of when the Bears bought the land in Ogden Heights versus when the Titans started their conversations, that should be the Bears having the Super Bowl celebration. They don't even know where their stadium is going to be built yet. That's a little embarrassing. There's a lot of reasons for that, and you can put blame everywhere. We've done so for four or five years. But yeah,
i i guess the update's gonna isn't the update dan gonna be we're doing our best and now we leave it in the hands of springfield i i would hope there would be a little bit more uh specific detail created in that briefing to say what exactly is happening in springfield and what is being done to massage the mega projects bill that the Bears are trying to get pushed through Illinois in a way that would suit all parties and then allow them to to pursue their their vision in in Arlington Heights which as you mentioned and we're talking June 2021 when the bid for that property first went in so we're coming up on a half decade here in a matter of weeks uh and and it would be that's two head coaches ago by the way Dan
But was Matt still the head coach at the time when they put that bid in on a property? Holy cow. I mean, yeah, a lot has happened in life. Let's just say that a lot has happened in life since June of 2021. But this morning, governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, was asked about the progress of the stadium. They're also, as you may know, and this is important to note on the front end of this, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago keeps going out publicly and saying the Bears need to be in Chicago. The Bears need to be in Chicago. And he's really the only one saying this at this point. That has been soundly and roundly rejected as not viable at this point. There's not a site. There's not a plan.
How is the Illinois State Legislature involved in the stadium decision?
There's nothing. And yet the mayor of Chicago still keeps trumpeting this stuff as if he's trying to make this last – bid to keep the bears in city limits uh and and so that was part of what was brought up to jb pritzker here's what the governor had to say on monday that's a conversation between those municipalities and the bears um you know as to the prospects for uh passage of a bill or you know what what might happen with the bears i mean i would say i know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So that's problematic. I'd love them to be in the city, but we're three years in now, and he still has no plan.
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