(10-12-2021 07:00 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(10-11-2021 06:47 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  What are the odds that the Bears convince some non-NFL city to build them a palace and The Chicago market become the leveraging chip for future stadiums for the next 2 decades like LA was?

Zilch. The revenue potential in Chicagoland is too great for the Bears to leave. The issue with LA was that the city and surrounding metros had 20 years of proof that they weren't going to spend one penny on a publicly financed stadium. That evidence doesn't exist for the Chicago area yet.

I think the solution is that Virginia's kids sell the team after she passes.

Yep, pretty much. Not to mention that the NFL no longer has a number of bad facilities they're actively trying to get out of (Oakland, San Diego, St. Louis) where they could leverage LA for negotiations, not anymore.

I think you're right about the McCaskeys selling the team once that happens. They have no real independent fortune outside of the team, they won't be able to run the Bears by committee imo. No way Virginia outlives the current Soldier Field lease.