As someone that lives in the city I really wish there was another way to keep the Bears. Nothing unites the city of Chicago like making going to a bears game a huge pain unless your a rich northwestern suburbanite
It's already overpriced. Maybe if the Bears leave Chicago, then the city can bring in a Xfl team. Maybe then I'll be able to afford going to Soldier Field.
it's the ownership. Over the decades they have had numerous plans that have never come to be. some are far more recent. 1) The parking lot south of Soldier Field, which is owned by the Park District, and they're not keen on the stadium going there. 2) the old Micheal Reese site where a huge hospital used to stand. It was demolished to try to get the Olympics. Plenty of land with direct connections to Metra electric 3) Arlington heights where they already bought land and demolished an old race track. Access to Metra and tons of land to build a whole lot of stuff to go with the stadium. 4) The 78 Development at Roosevelt and Clark. Plenty of land and right across the river from the Amtrak yard and shops south of Union station, it's also right on the Metra line that goes to the LaSalle Street Station. They could easily put platforms on the edge of the Union Station yard, and the other line as well. 5) The land over the IC tracks on the south end of the McCormick Center also right on the lake. They had a dome designed to attach to the convention center a while back but it was ultimately abandoned. This is just north of the Micheal Reese site. 6) They also talked about doing something out near O'Hare, on industrial land, though that's a stretch due to height limits, this would be similar to SoFi in that they'd dig very deep so the stadium would only be a few stories tall above ground. O'Hare is dead set against it, for obvious reasons. 7) They had a plan to move to Gary at then site of an old abandoned steel plant, but that never really got anywhere and I think it was a threat to the city to get them the current Soldier Field upgrades 20 years go. 8) Soldier field itself with another major upgrade including a roof. Those are the one that I know about and have read about. There are many many options but the ownership just can't seem to get it's act together.
I worked at Soldier Field in the 70s and the place was outdated and ready to go back then. The renovation was handled poorly and was just an over priced band-aid to the Bears problem. 50 years at Wrigley Field. 50 years at Soldier Field. They want to do business like a real NFL team and they want their own stadium that they control and maintain. Not like the mess that the Chicago Park District has served up for decades. They tried to work with the city and got nowhere, the time to move on to their goals was passed due and they have taken the necessary step to get where they want to be as a franchise. The NFL is a business and the Bears are making the smart business decision.
There weren't enough restrooms in the old stadium. They built a new stadium with not enough restrooms again! In late November, they make Ladies rooms in to Mens rooms since they know fewer women were coming to the games. VERY POOR ENGINEERING!!!!!
Only the Bears could renovate their stadium twice and somehow manage to decrease seating capacity both times.. Meanwhile, look at how Green Bay has been able to keep updating Lambeau to keep up with modern needs.
1:43 This picture was taken in 1955, at some point before the Bears October 16th game against Baltimore (which they won, 38-10). Note that the "Card(inal)s" were still in Chicago; they would move to St. Louis in 1960, then to Arizona in the 1980s.
As someone who’s only visited Chicago for work, I don’t understand why everyone has such a big problem with the stadium. I always thought it looked pretty sweet.
No place to park and there’s nothing really to do around the stadium without going into the loop. The bears want to build an entire complex like other teams have with commercial and retail space. The bears don’t own the stadium nor the land around it , the part district does and have blocked multiple attempts by the bears to build around the area . As a Chicagoan and a life long bears fan it will be sad to see them leave the city but I totally understand why .
@@ruiz1871 Those are nice but no one wants to go to a museum after a football game. Museums usually aren't open very late, so they're probably close after a game too.
Driving to downtown Chicago on Lakeshore Drive seeing the Bears stadium and seeing skyline is beautiful. I can’t imagine the bears playing any other place. Give me more wins and super bowls wins in exchange for a fancy stadium.
I live in the great city of Chicago, this perfectly encapsulates the situation that’s going on here. The politics in the city have driven many people and businesses away, and unfortunately, they are going to drive the Bears away as well. There are no benefits for the Bears to stay in Chicago, other than the beauty and sentimental value.
True Bears fans know that ever since we moved there in 1971 the supposed rivalry is no more... We have lost more games at home to our rival the Pack in the field than any other team... Bad luck stadium! Change is always necessary! If you are the city I get the obvious desire to keep them as an ignorant tenant that pays rent but if your the Bears brass the message was sent... If you block Arlington Heights (Circa 1979 est) one more time from the Bears then you will surely send them packing to a new home outside of the state... Just the facts the McCaskey's have the power to grab their nuts now and ask how hard would you like us to squeeze Mr. Mayor?
The wind and cold can be something that’s good for a team, but there hasn’t been any good quarterbacks in Chicago. So it goes both ways, if you have a dome I believe maybe you can have a passing game finally
@@a.barker7792 I’m sorry, In Kansas City, the weather is nearly perfect. The most he will get is minor snow. In Chicago, it is sometimes so cold that it feels like catching a rock when the recievers try to catch the ball. In case you did not know, Chicago is in the northern latitude 42 area. It is the coldest city in the USA with over 1 million people. In Kansas City, the weathers lowest temperature in December was -4, in janeuru it was 8 degrees. This is not counting game days. I’m sorry you feel different about the weather in Kansas City and Chicago.
Why are we still talking about this? The bears new president literally said they are leaving. Why would you pass up 326 acres, as he said it’s once in a life time opportunity. It would be foolish to stay in Chicago
As somebody said before, Soldier field needs a Tennant, why not a Canadian football team. Portland, Hartford and San Antonio are desperate for a football team. Over the fake ones.
I vended beer there in the north endzone seats once since it's 2003 renovation (last game of the '04 seson) and I honestly didnt think it was that bad of a stadium (at least back then).
Technically they are tied with the Cardinals as the oldest team in NFL history. The Packers are the oldest professional football team but they where not part of the charter that became the NFL.
It would be amazing if you did a video like this one and the one you did about the Emirates about an stadium in Argentina, or in South America. I can think about Boca Juniors debate on wether building a new stadium or somehow upgrading it's current one, San Lorenzo fans hope to move back to where it's old stadium was built, the Centenario in Uruguay which hosted the first World Cup final and may host the 2030 one too, or the problems the stadiums Brazil built for the 2014 led to.
Most of the fans attending Bears games come from the suburbs anyways. A very easy and cheap train ride to Arlington Heights will be no big deal for those living near downtown Chicago.
No, it is not Arlington Heightsit is only 30 miles 1/2 hour with good traffic from the City of Chicago. It is not 1 hr away. I live near there 5 min away.
Where do you get your info? You are wayyy behind. This video published on 3/18. Bears closed on the AH deal and there is no question they are leaving soldier field. I say not soon enough. To anybody crying about this, you dont get it. If you live downtown... okay I get it but that is all. Still worth it to take a train ride out the the new AH stadium, hell get a room and eat well and blow some cash at the casino maybe take in a concert. You don't understand how much better this will be. And if you refuse to see that light, there is no question this will be a HUGE revenue boost for the franchise so Bears can compete every year with the bigs. They do not have this now.
@@bryanflynn2855 The 1919 Decatur Staleys season was the first in the team's long existence, later becoming known as the Chicago Bears. It was also the only season in which the Staleys/Bears were an amateur team, not a member of the National Football League or managed by George Halas. The 1919 Staleys were a works team, made up purely of regular A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company employees, and finished with a 6-1 record to win the Central Illinois Championship. First NFL Teams Chicago Cardinals 1920 Chicago Bears 1920 Greenbay Packers 1921 Illinois had 4 Professional teams at one point Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Tigers, Decatur Staleys, and Rock Island Independents - one of the Teams (Jim Thorpe) played for Lot of people dont know that Geroge Halas's was a Player, Coach, Owner all at the same time More about Halas As a player: Hammond All-Stars (1919) Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1920-1929) Chicago Stayms (1920) As a coach: Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1920-1929, 1933-1942, 1946-1955, 1958-1967) As an executive: Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1921-1983) Owner Chicago Bruins (1925-1931, 1939-1942) Owner Newark Bears/Bombers (1939-1941) Owner Akron Bears (1946) Owner Baseball Player: New York Yankees 1919 Then his Military career
this doesnt seem possible but maybe they could remove the stadium and keep the soldier field exterior as a park? it would probably cost alot and wont make any sense but i feel like that would be cool to see
They will be in Arlington that is almost certain the easy of just getting on the train to get to and leave the games will make its way smoother on fans and others from out of town. It would also enhance the local areas a lot.
People act like they are moving across the country 😂 Neither the Rams or Chargers play in Los Angeles. Neither the Giants or Jets play in New York. Cowboys don't play in Dallas. 49ers don't play in San Francisco.....
@@dylanarthur5526 Baltimore Ravens play in Baltimore. Cincinnati Bengals play in Cincinnati. Cleveland Browns play in Cleveland. Pittsburgh Steelers play in Pittsburgh. Houston Texans play in Houston. Indianapolis Colts play in Indianapolis. Jacksonville Jaguars play in Jacksonville. Denver Broncos play in Denver. Kansas City Chiefs play in Kansas City. Philadelphia Eagles play in Philadelphia. Chicago Bears play in Chicago. Detroit Lions play in Detroit. Green Bay Packers play in Green Bay. Atlanta Falcons play in Atlanta. New Orleans Saints play in New Orleans. Tampa Bay Buccaneers play in Tampa. Seattle Seahawks play in Seattle. Then there's teams that don't belong to a city that don't really count. New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, and Arizona Cardinals.
I can't wait for the Bears to move , I firmly believe the culture will change. The bears owning their own stadium would mean they get all the revenue instead of breaking off a chunk to the Park District a District that doesn't even take care of its forest preserves in cook county especially on the south side and south east side. Unless the Park District sells Soldier Field to Bears then they should most definitely move to where Papa Bear wanted to back in the 70s.
The park district doesn't oversee the forest preserves. Chicago Park District oversees the parks in Chicago. The Forest Preserves of Cook County oversees the forest preserves.
No, the Bears don't have a Soldier Field problem. The city of Chicago has a Soldier Field problem. If and when the Bears leave the city will have to find new tenants and will still be paying off the renovation.
The Bears can easily purchase the stadium and the land around it. Raze the entire stadium, rebuild using the same exterior design with modern features.
Where is the money gonna come from?! The people of Arlington Heights don't want to pay for it, the State of Illinois is broke, the McCaskey's are cheap and they don't have that kind of cash even if they were willing to spend it! It's going to cost $5 Billion to do this right. Again, where is the money gonna come from?! If we're lucky, they'll talk the Park District into putting Field Turf in Soldier and that'll be it.
The McCaskeys are building the stadium with their own money. The surrounding infrastructure and entertainment/residential district is what they need the additional money for. The state of Illinois is far from broke, they just don't want to give the Bears money for their project, neither does Arlington Heights. The solution could come in the way of them just building the stadium and infrastructure, then piecemealing the rest over the years with the revenue from the stadium. Having the enlarged seating capacity and being able to have events (Final Four, Super Bowl, Concerts, etc.) all year round will help fund their realization. In the end, the final completion will be a cash cow so it's not a matter of them paying for it, they definitely will.
Its going to come from the same place where the money from all new stadiums come from, taxes and investors. The cost of maintaining and upgrading a 100 year old field is enough by itself to move out of Chicago!
Arlington Heights will still give people an opportunity to go to Chicago to visit the attractions there. The jets and giants play in Jersey, and NYC is about 15-20 min train ride from MetLife Stadium. No one goes to Jersey to watch the game, and go to Newark, Jersey City, Secaucus, etc to hang out unless they’re from that area. Tourist hop on the train and go to NYC.
Yeah, but it's more like an hour train ride from Arlington Heights to downtown. If a game starts at noon, you wouldn't make it downtown until it's close to 5, and you'd still have an hour trip to get back to Arlington Heights, then the commute home. So you'd be able to spend, what, an hour downtown tops? You couldn't eat a restaurant meal in an hour. Your Sunday would be completely shot. Most people have to get up for work Monday morning.
@@DionysusAlS i hear you bro, but if you decide to go to a game, the ones who do go will make it work bro. There’s plenty of teams that don’t play in their cities. San Francisco and Santa Clara is about an hour away. Arlington and Dallas is about 45-50 mins. Those fan bases pack their stadium when the team is good. Games are on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays. If you’re going to an NFL game, your focus is to get to that game and if you’re a regular everyday person, you most likely have to work the next day anyway unless you requested a day off or you don’t work Mondays, Tuesdays, or Fridays. Normally, for example me, if i wanted to see a bears game in Chicago, I’d need to take time off from work because i don’t live in Illinois. So I’d have time to go get dinner, sight see, etc after a game. Locals can go to dinner, or see the attractions of the nearby biggest city at any time they’re off. Those things will be there all Year. You can only see a football game from August to January.
@@jamridd14, I agree that there is plenty of precedent for an NFL team not actually playing in the city they represent. I was hoping the Bears could avoid being another example, but they have to do what's right by them. It is a business. And tranport technology will continue to make long distance less of a factor. Japan has maglev trains that are just insane. I don't understand why this country can't have such things instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on proxy war lost causes. What a complete joke.
people in the city aren't the only fans who enjoy going to a Bears game. for fucks sake, I live in NWI (like most everyone is) and going to that godawful aesthetic blight of a Spaceship on the Lake is no easier or better than it is to go up to Arlington Heights. time Chicago gets with the 21st century and gives it's fans an actual stadium they can be proud of--hopefully just in time for the team to rightfully be big contenders in the NFC
Now that there'll be a new mayor in the Windy City (Brandon Johnson), will there be new developments to the Soldier Field situation? Reply in my comments.
So, in all of this mess -you would’ve thought it would have been worth it in terms of sales, hotel/motel, and food and beverage taxes to the city if the Bears stayed in town. Why did Chicago never pressure the park district to sell Soldier Field to the Bears?
As a lifelong Bears fan from Chicago, I hope the Bears move. The stadium sucks. Tiny capacity, weird looks, and the Chicago park district is horrible maintaining the field.
It isn't. Talks of the Bears building a new stadium have been heating up since they closed the deal on Arlington International Racetrack. But the city mayor Lightfoot is desperately trying to keep the Bears in Chicago and at Soldier Field.
The #1 biggest problem you barely mention is the bears don’t own their own stadium. They rent it from the park district. There will be an ed shereen concert the night before a game the field will be trash and there’s nothing the bears can do about it. They also don’t get any of the revenue from that concert.
This is as much a culture problem as it is a stadium problem. For being a tough and gritty sport, many many NFL fans are high maintenance and just love to complain. Candlestick park wasn’t good enough, so the 49ers moved to Santa Cara, and that stadium isn’t good enough. It’s too hot or it’s too red or it’s too cookie cutter in appearance. So what, Soldier Field is so unsuitable for viewing that the Bears must either move, or replace it with an even bigger “eyesore?” I don’t get it.
Uh no, that wouldn’t work. Bears being one of the oldest franchises in the NFL in the third largest market in America. They are going to be stuck in Illinois.
I do not see the NFL helping the Bears build a new Stadium downtown because will not see any revenue. Just wait by next year the will be back to their original plan for arlington park property. There is going to be to many red tape to build in the city. Historical society need to preserve the soldier monument at all cost what is still left of it and should not be torn down from that location, respect of the soldiers. To many infracturer changes to accomodate their plans and too much money. No tax payer money when city need to help homeless, clean up city, get rid of illegals and previous renovation at soldier field is not paid off. City is broke and so are cook county taxpayers. No tourism will not increase with new stadium in the City of Chicago. City of Chicago is losing businesses left and right do to break ins and theft, leaving the City of Chicago.
Let me rephrase, The city of Chicago has a bear problem. They have awoke from a long hibernation and are leaving for the burbs. Bad deal, bad neighborhood, high crime, high taxes, poor government. Shall I continue?
Bad deal for Chicago, not the bears. $6 million a year is a bargain. As for bad neighborhood, name me one stadium in a good one? The Bears belong in Downtown Chicago just as much as the Packers in Lambeu Field. Winning changes everything.
Sure hope the bears move Lori Lightfoot tried to make it very hard for the bears to due what they wanted with their own stadium. CHICAGO SHOULD BE PROUD TO HAVE THE BEARS. Here we come Arlington heights!! I CANT WAIT ! BEARS TO THE BONE! BEAR DOWN BABY!!!!!@
The only thing I never hear about is transportation ,they need railroad to bring trains there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cant wait for this team to move. also hope the mccaskeys sell the team. would be the best thing ever for this team to get a real owner with money and get a new stadium in arlington that is a dome
The video makes it seem like a new stadium in the suburbs will solve the team's problems. Such a weak argument. They built the Miami Marlins a brand new stadium and it did nothing for them. They have one of the worst attendance records in the league. A shiny new stadium doesn't make a team successful.
5:57 I don't think Bears fans care about visiting downtown Chicago. Visiting fans, neither. They'll be just satisfied with their team smoking the Bears
If I was the Owner I would move to? Why in the hell would continue to pay rent to a terrible looking stadium! It looks like a UFO landed there and it's still under construction? When it rains that field looks like hurricane hit it! The grass is worst! They can't hold a Superbowl here, the parking is terrible! No stores to accommodate fans?
"Da Bears" have a CHICAGO problem. Sure, Soldier Field COULD be renovated again to be "state-of-the-art", but that'd not eliminate its primary problem: It's in CHICAGO. The city has become a hellhole of crime. How many actual season ticket holders reside within the Chicago city limits? The Bears, if that Arlington Heights location doesn't work out, would still have numerous locations elsewhere in Chicagoland they could relocate to.
Don't forget dealing with corrupt scumbag politicians who are not even capable of managing a burger king yet manage one of the biggest cities in the world
There moving because they are owners and there tired of paying rent to something they can never own! It's time to run this Franchise right and have a state of art stadium!
The Chicago bears I finally being run like a Football organization a real good team president, as well as a good GM that is building this team through the Draft, and we finally have a franchise QB.
@@christophercameron2141, nope. Fields will be out of the league in 3 years. He'll probably end up getting benched at some point this upcoming season.
@@DionysusAlS What the hell are you looking at=? He was one of the the most exciting players to watch despite no talent around him? Now if you may want to save that comment for Zach Wilson of the New York jets=! Justin Fields by far the most talented QB in his class, look at Jacksonville Jaguars last year in free agency they got that kid help! And so are the bears!? If you had done your research besides being a hater would could have a educational debate?
As someone that lives in the city I really wish there was another way to keep the Bears. Nothing unites the city of Chicago like making going to a bears game a huge pain unless your a rich northwestern suburbanite
That won't change ever. 1 beer, i can buy in any Texas gas station for 3 bucks max .....$16 .00 each. Football all over is over priced.
Damn so going to bears games will be safer for you now they are leaving the shitty place called Chicago.
It's already overpriced. Maybe if the Bears leave Chicago, then the city can bring in a Xfl team. Maybe then I'll be able to afford going to Soldier Field.
@@Chris-Courage The Bear may leave but Chicago will always be an NFL market, there will always be an NFL team in Chicago
it's the ownership. Over the decades they have had numerous plans that have never come to be. some are far more recent.
1) The parking lot south of Soldier Field, which is owned by the Park District, and they're not keen on the stadium going there.
2) the old Micheal Reese site where a huge hospital used to stand. It was demolished to try to get the Olympics. Plenty of land with direct connections to Metra electric
3) Arlington heights where they already bought land and demolished an old race track. Access to Metra and tons of land to build a whole lot of stuff to go with the stadium.
4) The 78 Development at Roosevelt and Clark. Plenty of land and right across the river from the Amtrak yard and shops south of Union station, it's also right on the Metra line that goes to the LaSalle Street Station. They could easily put platforms on the edge of the Union Station yard, and the other line as well.
5) The land over the IC tracks on the south end of the McCormick Center also right on the lake. They had a dome designed to attach to the convention center a while back but it was ultimately abandoned. This is just north of the Micheal Reese site.
6) They also talked about doing something out near O'Hare, on industrial land, though that's a stretch due to height limits, this would be similar to SoFi in that they'd dig very deep so the stadium would only be a few stories tall above ground. O'Hare is dead set against it, for obvious reasons.
7) They had a plan to move to Gary at then site of an old abandoned steel plant, but that never really got anywhere and I think it was a threat to the city to get them the current Soldier Field upgrades 20 years go.
8) Soldier field itself with another major upgrade including a roof.
Those are the one that I know about and have read about. There are many many options but the ownership just can't seem to get it's act together.
I worked at Soldier Field in the 70s and the place was outdated and ready to go back then.
The renovation was handled poorly and was just an over priced band-aid to the Bears problem.
50 years at Wrigley Field.
50 years at Soldier Field.
They want to do business like a real NFL team and they want their own stadium that they control and maintain. Not like the mess that the Chicago Park District has served up for decades.
They tried to work with the city and got nowhere, the time to move on to their goals was passed due and they have taken the necessary step to get where they want to be as a franchise.
The NFL is a business and the Bears are making the smart business decision.
There weren't enough restrooms in the old stadium. They built a new stadium with not enough restrooms again! In late November, they make Ladies rooms in to Mens rooms since they know fewer women were coming to the games.
VERY POOR ENGINEERING!!!!!
The purchase of Arlington International Racecourse actually went through 3 weeks ago.
I'm sure he work into this before then, give the man kudos for covering our team.
So what. Good investment for the bears. They need outside income like other owners have.
I can't say it enough. The bears have a identity problem. They have none.
I was looking forward to seeing the Arlington Heights Bears play in a new, preferably domed, stadium. Oh, well...
Only the Bears could renovate their stadium twice and somehow manage to decrease seating capacity both times.. Meanwhile, look at how Green Bay has been able to keep updating Lambeau to keep up with modern needs.
If Mahomes was drafted by the Bears I believe he wouldn't be the great QB he is today.
he'd be a bust
Chicago Bears the place that QBs go to fall into obscurity. This stadium mess is just another example of the incompetence of the ownership.
@@thephantomeagle2 An unbiased take surely. I would agree, but I think Caleb will change things
The best QB the Bears ever had was Doug Flutie; but, like every other NFL team lucky enough to have him, they gave up.
👍 agreed
1:43 This picture was taken in 1955, at some point before the Bears October 16th game against Baltimore (which they won, 38-10). Note that the "Card(inal)s" were still in Chicago; they would move to St. Louis in 1960, then to Arizona in the 1980s.
As someone who’s only visited Chicago for work, I don’t understand why everyone has such a big problem with the stadium. I always thought it looked pretty sweet.
No place to park and there’s nothing really to do around the stadium without going into the loop. The bears want to build an entire complex like other teams have with commercial and retail space. The bears don’t own the stadium nor the land around it , the part district does and have blocked multiple attempts by the bears to build around the area . As a Chicagoan and a life long bears fan it will be sad to see them leave the city but I totally understand why .
Do you really like the cold weather? During the game hell naw bruh
@@dqr89there’s 3 world class museums around the stadium and beach. So not nothing lol
But not anything that’s drinking/club related
@@ruiz1871 Those are nice but no one wants to go to a museum after a football game. Museums usually aren't open very late, so they're probably close after a game too.
@@ruiz1871 drunk bears fans aren’t going to a museum after the game lol and yes we do have a beach but the bears play during winter so… lol
Driving to downtown Chicago on Lakeshore Drive seeing the Bears stadium and seeing skyline is beautiful. I can’t imagine the bears playing any other place. Give me more wins and super bowls wins in exchange for a fancy stadium.
Ploping down a new stadium over those Classical Collums looks about as ridiculous as it can get.
I think even if the city of Chicago decided to build a stadium in another portion of Chicago, the relationship is already broken and can't be fixed.
I live in the great city of Chicago, this perfectly encapsulates the situation that’s going on here. The politics in the city have driven many people and businesses away, and unfortunately, they are going to drive the Bears away as well. There are no benefits for the Bears to stay in Chicago, other than the beauty and sentimental value.
An NFL without the Bears in Chicago is a strange possibility
Every other city in the world wants their stadium downtown. Few have that.
I wonder how much it would cost to turn Soldier Field into a retractable ropf stadium....
True Bears fans know that ever since we moved there in 1971 the supposed rivalry is no more... We have lost more games at home to our rival the Pack in the field than any other team... Bad luck stadium! Change is always necessary! If you are the city I get the obvious desire to keep them as an ignorant tenant that pays rent but if your the Bears brass the message was sent... If you block Arlington Heights (Circa 1979 est) one more time from the Bears then you will surely send them packing to a new home outside of the state... Just the facts the McCaskey's have the power to grab their nuts now and ask how hard would you like us to squeeze Mr. Mayor?
The wind and cold can be something that’s good for a team, but there hasn’t been any good quarterbacks in Chicago. So it goes both ways, if you have a dome I believe maybe you can have a passing game finally
Tom Brady never had a dome, 2 different teams nor does Patrick Mahomes.
@@a.barker7792 mahomes weather is peferct WTH u talking about. Brady and Allen and whoever the bears qb at the time is have the worst weather
@kinnowin3027 you have no idea what you're talking about. Please leave this subject to grown ups.
@@a.barker7792 I’m sorry, In Kansas City, the weather is nearly perfect. The most he will get is minor snow. In Chicago, it is sometimes so cold that it feels like catching a rock when the recievers try to catch the ball. In case you did not know, Chicago is in the northern latitude 42 area. It is the coldest city in the USA with over 1 million people. In Kansas City, the weathers lowest temperature in December was -4, in janeuru it was 8 degrees. This is not counting game days. I’m sorry you feel different about the weather in Kansas City and Chicago.
@@a.barker7792 yeah it’s very cold and snowy in Tampa🙄
Super content man, your voice over are amazing
Why are we still talking about this? The bears new president literally said they are leaving. Why would you pass up 326 acres, as he said it’s once in a life time opportunity. It would be foolish to stay in Chicago
Great clip
Until the bears get different owners they will remain irrelevant
As somebody said before, Soldier field needs a Tennant, why not a Canadian football team. Portland, Hartford and San Antonio are desperate for a football team. Over the fake ones.
I vended beer there in the north endzone seats once since it's 2003 renovation (last game of the '04 seson) and I honestly didnt think it was that bad of a stadium (at least back then).
Love your content, keep up the great work. Whats your team?
Technically they are tied with the Cardinals as the oldest team in NFL history. The Packers are the oldest professional football team but they where not part of the charter that became the NFL.
The Toronto Argonauts are the oldest professional football team actually. They are older than the packers by 36 years!
@@demarcdegasollol nazi Canada doesn’t count.
Super Bowl at soldier field in 2019 just imagine lol
It would be amazing if you did a video like this one and the one you did about the Emirates about an stadium in Argentina, or in South America.
I can think about Boca Juniors debate on wether building a new stadium or somehow upgrading it's current one, San Lorenzo fans hope to move back to where it's old stadium was built, the Centenario in Uruguay which hosted the first World Cup final and may host the 2030 one too, or the problems the stadiums Brazil built for the 2014 led to.
El Monumental is looking incredible after the Reno's.
Arlington heights like an hour away from Chicago tho 😭
Most of the fans attending Bears games come from the suburbs anyways. A very easy and cheap train ride to Arlington Heights will be no big deal for those living near downtown Chicago.
No, it is not
Arlington Heightsit is only 30 miles 1/2 hour with good traffic from the City of Chicago. It is not 1 hr away. I live near there 5 min away.
@@jeanmillburg3343 still far
Where do you get your info? You are wayyy behind. This video published on 3/18. Bears closed on the AH deal and there is no question they are leaving soldier field. I say not soon enough. To anybody crying about this, you dont get it. If you live downtown... okay I get it but that is all. Still worth it to take a train ride out the the new AH stadium, hell get a room and eat well and blow some cash at the casino maybe take in a concert. You don't understand how much better this will be. And if you refuse to see that light, there is no question this will be a HUGE revenue boost for the franchise so Bears can compete every year with the bigs. They do not have this now.
MOVE TO ARLINGTON PARK FOR THE FANS
Nobody likes Arlington Hts.
Only two teams remain from the NFL’s start in Canton, Ohio. Bears and Cardinals. They’re not the “second oldest”.
Tf you say
Actually the Cardinals are older than the NFL.
They're the 3rd oldest
Cardinals 1898
Packers 1919
Bears 1920
Cardinals and Bears started with the NFL in 1920, and Packers joined a year later.
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The 1919 Decatur Staleys season was the first in the team's long existence, later becoming known as the Chicago Bears. It was also the only season in which the Staleys/Bears were an amateur team, not a member of the National Football League or managed by George Halas. The 1919 Staleys were a works team, made up purely of regular A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company employees, and finished with a 6-1 record to win the Central Illinois Championship.
First NFL Teams
Chicago Cardinals 1920
Chicago Bears 1920
Greenbay Packers 1921
Illinois had 4 Professional teams at one point
Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Tigers, Decatur Staleys, and
Rock Island Independents - one of the Teams
(Jim Thorpe) played for
Lot of people dont know that Geroge Halas's was a Player, Coach, Owner all at the same time
More about Halas
As a player:
Hammond All-Stars (1919)
Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1920-1929)
Chicago Stayms (1920)
As a coach:
Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1920-1929, 1933-1942, 1946-1955, 1958-1967)
As an executive:
Decatur Staleys/Chicago Staleys/Chicago Bears (1921-1983)
Owner
Chicago Bruins (1925-1931,
1939-1942)
Owner
Newark Bears/Bombers (1939-1941)
Owner
Akron Bears (1946)
Owner
Baseball Player:
New York Yankees 1919
Then his Military career
@@bryanflynn2855 nope 2nd cause Fuk GB
And it all started with the "Curse of the Honeybears" after Super Bowl XX. The McCaskey family REALLY did a hatchet job on the Bears.
Great Video and info.
this doesnt seem possible but maybe they could remove the stadium and keep the soldier field exterior as a park? it would probably cost alot and wont make any sense but i feel like that would be cool to see
Soldier field looked way better before they remodeled it and put what we call, the alien spaceship, ontop of it.
Yeah… it looked better, but it was an absolute dump of a stadium to attend a game at.
They will be in Arlington that is almost certain the easy of just getting on the train to get to and leave the games will make its way smoother on fans and others from out of town. It would also enhance the local areas a lot.
Well put
People act like they are moving across the country 😂
Neither the Rams or Chargers play in Los Angeles. Neither the Giants or Jets play in New York. Cowboys don't play in Dallas. 49ers don't play in San Francisco.....
@@dylanarthur5526 Baltimore Ravens play in Baltimore. Cincinnati Bengals play in Cincinnati. Cleveland Browns play in Cleveland. Pittsburgh Steelers play in Pittsburgh. Houston Texans play in Houston. Indianapolis Colts play in Indianapolis. Jacksonville Jaguars play in Jacksonville. Denver Broncos play in Denver. Kansas City Chiefs play in Kansas City. Philadelphia Eagles play in Philadelphia. Chicago Bears play in Chicago. Detroit Lions play in Detroit. Green Bay Packers play in Green Bay. Atlanta Falcons play in Atlanta. New Orleans Saints play in New Orleans. Tampa Bay Buccaneers play in Tampa. Seattle Seahawks play in Seattle. Then there's teams that don't belong to a city that don't really count. New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, and Arizona Cardinals.
I can't wait for the Bears to move , I firmly believe the culture will change. The bears owning their own stadium would mean they get all the revenue instead of breaking off a chunk to the Park District a District that doesn't even take care of its forest preserves in cook county especially on the south side and south east side. Unless the Park District sells Soldier Field to Bears then they should most definitely move to where Papa Bear wanted to back in the 70s.
The park district doesn't oversee the forest preserves. Chicago Park District oversees the parks in Chicago. The Forest Preserves of Cook County oversees the forest preserves.
Great video
I feel like the only way the Bears can get a new stadium now is by Chicago getting a 2nd NFL team either by relocation or as an expansion team
No, the Bears don't have a Soldier Field problem. The city of Chicago has a Soldier Field problem. If and when the Bears leave the city will have to find new tenants and will still be paying off the renovation.
So many more things go on at Soldier Field. Most people that work there can't wait for the Bears to leave. They bring in so little revenue.
y natt *gary,in?*
The Bears can easily purchase the stadium and the land around it.
Raze the entire stadium, rebuild using the same exterior design with modern features.
Where is the money gonna come from?! The people of Arlington Heights don't want to pay for it, the State of Illinois is broke, the McCaskey's are cheap and they don't have that kind of cash even if they were willing to spend it! It's going to cost $5 Billion to do this right. Again, where is the money gonna come from?! If we're lucky, they'll talk the Park District into putting Field Turf in Soldier and that'll be it.
The McCaskeys are building the stadium with their own money. The surrounding infrastructure and entertainment/residential district is what they need the additional money for. The state of Illinois is far from broke, they just don't want to give the Bears money for their project, neither does Arlington Heights. The solution could come in the way of them just building the stadium and infrastructure, then piecemealing the rest over the years with the revenue from the stadium. Having the enlarged seating capacity and being able to have events (Final Four, Super Bowl, Concerts, etc.) all year round will help fund their realization. In the end, the final completion will be a cash cow so it's not a matter of them paying for it, they definitely will.
The casino and sports book fill finance the stadium... Continue the exodus of cook county
Its going to come from the same place where the money from all new stadiums come from, taxes and investors. The cost of maintaining and upgrading a 100 year old field is enough by itself to move out of Chicago!
0:52 C'mon EVERYBODY knows the only "mistake on the lake" is Cleveland....don't try and push that shit off on us.
Apparently Arlington Heights is a no go for the stadium. What a waste to demolish Arlington Park.
Arlington Heights will still give people an opportunity to go to Chicago to visit the attractions there. The jets and giants play in Jersey, and NYC is about 15-20 min train ride from MetLife Stadium. No one goes to Jersey to watch the game, and go to Newark, Jersey City, Secaucus, etc to hang out unless they’re from that area. Tourist hop on the train and go to NYC.
Yeah, but it's more like an hour train ride from Arlington Heights to downtown. If a game starts at noon, you wouldn't make it downtown until it's close to 5, and you'd still have an hour trip to get back to Arlington Heights, then the commute home. So you'd be able to spend, what, an hour downtown tops? You couldn't eat a restaurant meal in an hour. Your Sunday would be completely shot. Most people have to get up for work Monday morning.
@@DionysusAlS i hear you bro, but if you decide to go to a game, the ones who do go will make it work bro. There’s plenty of teams that don’t play in their cities. San Francisco and Santa Clara is about an hour away. Arlington and Dallas is about 45-50 mins. Those fan bases pack their stadium when the team is good. Games are on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays. If you’re going to an NFL game, your focus is to get to that game and if you’re a regular everyday person, you most likely have to work the next day anyway unless you requested a day off or you don’t work Mondays, Tuesdays, or Fridays. Normally, for example me, if i wanted to see a bears game in Chicago, I’d need to take time off from work because i don’t live in Illinois. So I’d have time to go get dinner, sight see, etc after a game. Locals can go to dinner, or see the attractions of the nearby biggest city at any time they’re off. Those things will be there all Year. You can only see a football game from August to January.
@@jamridd14, I agree that there is plenty of precedent for an NFL team not actually playing in the city they represent. I was hoping the Bears could avoid being another example, but they have to do what's right by them. It is a business. And tranport technology will continue to make long distance less of a factor. Japan has maglev trains that are just insane. I don't understand why this country can't have such things instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on proxy war lost causes. What a complete joke.
people in the city aren't the only fans who enjoy going to a Bears game. for fucks sake, I live in NWI (like most everyone is) and going to that godawful aesthetic blight of a Spaceship on the Lake is no easier or better than it is to go up to Arlington Heights.
time Chicago gets with the 21st century and gives it's fans an actual stadium they can be proud of--hopefully just in time for the team to rightfully be big contenders in the NFC
Now that there'll be a new mayor in the Windy City (Brandon Johnson), will there be new developments to the Soldier Field situation? Reply in my comments.
I still love CHICAGO Grew up in Chicago fuck the haters 💯💯💯🧡💙🧡💙🧡
Why you got footage of a kid in a juvie cell?
What I never understood is why not just demolish soldier field and build a new stadium in its place.
The bears should move and they should restore soldier field. Maybe the bears could play a game there once a year.
And the City still owes $560 mil ...have they not maid any payments since remodeling?
Reboot the Chicago Blitz of the USFL, and they can play in Soldier Field. The Bears can keep on going.
So, in all of this mess -you would’ve thought it would have been worth it in terms of sales, hotel/motel, and food and beverage taxes to the city if the Bears stayed in town. Why did Chicago never pressure the park district to sell Soldier Field to the Bears?
The remodel destroyed Soldier Field.
It will be a sad day when the become the "Arlington Heights Bears"
As a lifelong Bears fan from Chicago, I hope the Bears move. The stadium sucks. Tiny capacity, weird looks, and the Chicago park district is horrible maintaining the field.
Not sure if this is clickbait or not.
It isn't. Talks of the Bears building a new stadium have been heating up since they closed the deal on Arlington International Racetrack.
But the city mayor Lightfoot is desperately trying to keep the Bears in Chicago and at Soldier Field.
The #1 biggest problem you barely mention is the bears don’t own their own stadium. They rent it from the park district. There will be an ed shereen concert the night before a game the field will be trash and there’s nothing the bears can do about it. They also don’t get any of the revenue from that concert.
No, they have an Arlington Heights government problem. They won't give Da Bears a tax break.
I actually love Soldier Field. Sad that the Bears are losing the historic space.
Same here. The bears are poverty (this message was brought to you by the Packers/Lions gang) but Soldier field is magnificent
This is as much a culture problem as it is a stadium problem. For being a tough and gritty sport, many many NFL fans are high maintenance and just love to complain. Candlestick park wasn’t good enough, so the 49ers moved to Santa Cara, and that stadium isn’t good enough. It’s too hot or it’s too red or it’s too cookie cutter in appearance. So what, Soldier Field is so unsuitable for viewing that the Bears must either move, or replace it with an even bigger “eyesore?” I don’t get it.
Move them to San Diego?
Uh no, that wouldn’t work. Bears being one of the oldest franchises in the NFL in the third largest market in America. They are going to be stuck in Illinois.
The stadium is a dump and has the fewest number of seats can’t think of another good reason.
I do not see the NFL helping the Bears build a new Stadium downtown because will not see any revenue. Just wait by next year the will be back to their original plan for arlington park property. There is going to be to many red tape to build in the city. Historical society need to preserve the soldier monument at all cost what is still left of it and should not be torn down from that location, respect of the soldiers. To many infracturer changes to accomodate their plans and too much money. No tax payer money when city need to help homeless, clean up city, get rid of illegals and previous renovation at soldier field is not paid off. City is broke and so are cook county taxpayers. No tourism will not increase with new stadium in the City of Chicago. City of Chicago is losing businesses left and right do to break ins and theft, leaving the City of Chicago.
Let me rephrase, The city of Chicago has a bear problem. They have awoke from a long hibernation and are leaving for the burbs. Bad deal, bad neighborhood, high crime, high taxes, poor government. Shall I continue?
Bad deal for Chicago, not the bears. $6 million a year is a bargain. As for bad neighborhood, name me one stadium in a good one? The Bears belong in Downtown Chicago just as much as the Packers in Lambeu Field. Winning changes everything.
@@a.barker7792Gillette Stadium ………
Sure hope the bears move Lori Lightfoot tried to make it very hard for the bears to due what they wanted with their own stadium. CHICAGO SHOULD BE PROUD TO HAVE THE BEARS. Here we come Arlington heights!!
I CANT WAIT ! BEARS TO THE BONE! BEAR DOWN BABY!!!!!@
The only thing I never hear about is transportation ,they need railroad to bring trains there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago is just full of bad stadiums. Wrigley, Soldier, and the rate.
cant wait for this team to move. also hope the mccaskeys sell the team. would be the best thing ever for this team to get a real owner with money and get a new stadium in arlington that is a dome
Daaa Bears.
The video makes it seem like a new stadium in the suburbs will solve the team's problems. Such a weak argument. They built the Miami Marlins a brand new stadium and it did nothing for them. They have one of the worst attendance records in the league. A shiny new stadium doesn't make a team successful.
Its going to happen
Da Bears!
The oldest franchise
You got a lot of facts wrong. Big time.
theres nothing wrong with soldier field. if the bears would win, everyone would be happy.
The new Soldier Field is absolutely hideous. Probably the worst stadium in the league.
It looks like a UFO landed on some Neo-Classical columns.
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5:57 I don't think Bears fans care about visiting downtown Chicago. Visiting fans, neither. They'll be just satisfied with their team smoking the Bears
#DaBearsStillSuck
Your video is backwards when showing LSD, you talk too fast, and you "ooted out" yourself as a Canook.
I'll watch the rest of your presentation, eh.
The move to Arlington is all about money. Probably to save on rent and taxes. Not like they can’t afford it…
If I was the Owner I would move to? Why in the hell would continue to pay rent to a terrible looking stadium! It looks like a UFO landed there and it's still under construction? When it rains that field looks like hurricane hit it! The grass is worst! They can't hold a Superbowl here, the parking is terrible! No stores to accommodate fans?
Doesn’t matter. They’ll lose wherever they go. The Bears still suck!
Wrigley field still going
logistically Soldier Field is god awful, and i am a season tix holder. been to a number of NFL stadiums and Solider Field is just awful
they need to re-build soldier field or move out
@@ANCIENTASTRONAUT Met-Life is in the middle of nowhere in Jersey. AT&T takes forever to get out of and also in the middle of nowhere.
As long as they change their name it's fine. No team playing in fucking Arlington Heights should get to call themselves Chicago.
Orchard Park Bills, Arlington Cowboys, Inglewood Rams, Inglewood Chargers, Miami Gardens Dolphins, Foxborough Patrots, Landover Commanders, Santa Clara 49ers
@@williambozek5458 Preach brother. Paradise Raiders, East Rutherford Giants also
The move to Arrington will save them
"Da Bears" have a CHICAGO problem. Sure, Soldier Field COULD be renovated again to be "state-of-the-art", but that'd not eliminate its primary problem: It's in CHICAGO. The city has become a hellhole of crime. How many actual season ticket holders reside within the Chicago city limits? The Bears, if that Arlington Heights location doesn't work out, would still have numerous locations elsewhere in Chicagoland they could relocate to.
The Bears just like everyone else are moving because of crime, end of story.
Don't forget dealing with corrupt scumbag politicians who are not even capable of managing a burger king yet manage one of the biggest cities in the world
There moving because they are owners and there tired of paying rent to something they can never own! It's time to run this Franchise right and have a state of art stadium!
The Bears just like the city are crap !
you'll survive, Cupcake....maybe
The Chicago bears I finally being run like a Football organization a real good team president, as well as a good GM that is building this team through the Draft, and we finally have a franchise QB.
@@christophercameron2141, nope. Fields will be out of the league in 3 years. He'll probably end up getting benched at some point this upcoming season.
@@DionysusAlS What the hell are you looking at=? He was one of the the most exciting players to watch despite no talent around him? Now if you may want to save that comment for Zach Wilson of the New York jets=! Justin Fields by far the most talented QB in his class, look at Jacksonville Jaguars last year in free agency they got that kid help! And so are the bears!? If you had done your research besides being a hater would could have a educational debate?
2nd oldest NFL franchise? Thought it was the oldest?
Cardinals are older.