(02-26-2026 09:35 AM)Bill Marsh Wrote:  Isn’t this pretty much the same thing as what the Giants did 50 years ago when they abandoned NYC and moved across the river to a new stadium financed and built by the State of New Jersey? They were joined 8 years later by the Jets who also left New York City for the Meadowlands.

A few years earlier, the Patriots left Boston and moved to Foxborough, MA 28 miles away. While it was in the same state, they dropped “Boston” from their name and became the “New England” Patriots. They might just as well have moved to Rhode Island. They did in fact enter negotiations to move to Connecticut 20 some years later and only stayed in Mass after they received concessions from Massachusetts for highway access infrastructure.

Similar, but Mass has the Pats and the Empire State has the Bills. Illinois would be losing an NFL franchise and the financial windfall that comes with it.

We’ll know soon enough how much they care about that. It looks like Iowa has entered the chat.

Some of y’all need to realize this is bigger than marketz