Hammond Bears unironically has a good ring to it
What about the fans
>>155016752I hope Indiana becomes prosperous in this deal to the point that they see how by giving into all the demands will bite them in the ass down the road
>>155016790why would they care about the fans
Close enough to Gary. Da Garebears
>leaving Soldier Fieldgay and soulless
Will da Burrs and Clots have an in-state trophy like how Missouri had the Governor's Cup between the Chiefs and Rams.
Is it a gay yuppie suburb or is it the kind of place that would actually have bears
>>155016790Dude lets not pretend like they are moving to Las Vegas. They are moving to a city in their market
>da (Chicago) burrs will never win the superb owl againI wasted my entire life in this website for nothing?
>>155016791They will neither prosper nor learn that these deals always fuck them with a cactus down the road.
>>155016752If only you knew how much teams love bluffing about moving
>>155016913Neither, it's just a shit hole
THREE (3) teams that play in an entirely different state from what their name suggests
>>155017133The bluff was a couple months ago, now they are actually about to go through with it
>>155016940Time will tell. By at least keeping it in Illinois. You'll have some good will left and people will watch out of Illinois pride. By completely moving to another state, it will shift the fan base and those on the fence will stop watching and those who rep the Chicago part of the burrs will stop watching. Ironically enough Sundays will become more productive in the phone region with less call offs in the workforce
>>155017162*In the Illinois region
>>155017153They were actually about to go through with Arlington Heights, even buying the land, until they didn't
Any football team from a city that snows that posts a roof on their stadium is a pussy.
>>155017153"with the exact site to be selected"lmao they haven't pulled the trigger on anything
>>155016752Are there even any bears in Hammond?
>>155017138>my properly named New England Patriots
>>155017279indiana is full of tops and bottoms
>>155016878Soldier Field will be primarily a soccer stadium now
>>155017358Nah, Chicago FC is building their own soccer stadium on the "76". Soldier Field will be torn down and renovated into condos or apartments for the rich
>>155017358wtf, chikaner repeatedly told us that nobody cares about soccer
>>155016913It's an extremely corrupt shithole town with 60% of it's buildings boarded up. It's ran by all Black Politicians that funny enough can't stop getting investigated for embezzlement
>>155017200This is the worst thing. Football in cold weather is the real thing. Snow games = SOWLControlled weather games = soulless beyond the horizon
How are all five teams run by incompetent boobs?
>>155017464that's kind of based I wish I could be a political machine flunky
>>155016752This is Al generated!
>>155017523The people who own these teams are all billionaires who just use these stadiums as loss write offs for their other ventures
>>155017523It would blow your mind how much of those that make the real big bucks do so by just owning things. Nothing in the way they actually run their business, they just own stuff.
>>155017624Once a snowball gets a enough momentum rolling down a mountain, it becomes an avalanche
>>155017523>2 teams in mlb>1 team restThis triggers my tism
>>155017162Most NFL fans are plastics who won't let a move affect their will to consoom
>>155017464>ran by Black PoliticiansAbsolute death sentence for any municipality. You can have a black mayor or some black commissioners, but when it becomes majority black people running the city, it's over. No coming back.
>>155017358>>155017384even worse
you shoulndt be able to keep the name if you change cities
Hardly any teams have stadiums in their actual city and both New York teams are in New Jersey (the same distance away as Hammond is to Chiraq).
>>155016752Isn't the stadium a net drain on the economy? Is that what this is about? Why do you let teams relocate?
>>155017958don't worry, the white sox will move to Nashville soon enough
>>155018005AgreedEverton should lead by example and change names as they recently relocated from Walton to Vauxhill
>>155017358isn't it too small for proper soccer? that's why they couldn't host the world cup
Arlington Heights has been a hotbed the last few years for various corporate offices.The McCaskeys will make gazillions more money developing that site into office buildings and hotels.
>the hammond bears
>>155018063Don’t think so unless they made some special criteria for the World Cup, probably that’s what they did. They hosted there in 1994
>>155018039>Isn't the stadium a net drain on the economy?Large cities usually finance them through hotel taxes, so they'll pay for the stadium up front and make it back over time, and supposedly having a pro team will increase the city's visibility/standing and attract people and businesses to it. That's the belief, anyway. No idea how Hammond will pay for it. No one's moving to northwest Indiana, it's a well-known shithole.>Why do you let teams relocate?You can't really stop a private entity from relocating
Just name them the Midwest Bears and be done with it. They can move anywhere around that area.
>>155016913think of the exact opposite of a gay yuppie suburb, and then you can imagine Hammond. it is pretty destitute. industrial, poor, and ugly
>>155016752>Illinois lost its team againBAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>155018102This is going to be a good test of economy. Either Hammonds economy will grow enough to recover or Chicagos economy will grow after the team leave leaving less leverage for future teams when they decide to pull the old threat of moving. You can only move so many times until you beat the horse to death.
>>155016752When will May and Clarksen respond with their own teams?
isn't it actually closer to Chicago than Arlington Heights though
>>155017358Trump's America
>>155018063I think it was because it was old. Soccer can definitely have small stadiums. For MLS, 20,000 should be enough
>>155016752why do american teams move so often?unironically what are the positives of such a move?
>amerifranchises
>>155018320>You can only move so many times until you beat the horse to death.Pro teams have shown us that's not really true>>155018405>why do american teams move so often?They're privately owned and can do that>unironically what are the positives of such a move?New stadium obviously, and for the league sometimes that means opening up a better market (such as the A's leaving Oakland for Vegas)
>>155018405Gotta chase the next windfall >>155018420The whole sports entertainment industry is modelled after the military industrial complex in the sense that regardless of where it is moved to, it will succeed
Greatest day of my life. Too bad you lost your franchise Bears fans! Hahahahahahahahaha
>>155018468Eh, what are you gonna do? The Chicago vs Green Bay rivalry will end and the cheese market will boom between Chicago and Wisconsin. Basically it'll be a positive for both states
>>155016752Da Bears WERE who we thought they were
>>155018537Once moot sold us out, the bears were only a tick time clock away baka
>>155016913The stadium is going to be located in industrial waste swampland next to a massive oil refinery.
>>155018732>This picture makes the lawmakers snot and quiver in their chambers
>>155016752Cool
>>155018685That's probably where it belongs desu
>>155018286t. Losing the Vancouver Whitecaps.
>>155017464sounds like chimpcongo
>Ayo NFL is the highest earning Sporting franchise in the world, thirdiesMeanwhile franchises move around the country chasing that tax free high
>>155018405>why do american teams move so often?>unironically what are the positives of such a move?In this case it’s because Soldier Field is old and tiny. Smallest in the NFL. And they don’t want to lease/buyout the stadium from the city when it’s up for renewal in like 7 years.But there not really another good place in Chicago to put a stadium, and they also want to have their own Wrigleyville with other entertainment, bars, etc. The field right now just sits on the lake next to a museum and harbor. Not much room to build anything else. And even if they could the city and other groups make it damn near impossible.They already purchased land outside the city but still in Illinois, but Indiana is offering a way better tax cut
>>155018405I hate that they moveI was originally going to post about how these moves don't happen often, then I remembered that in the NFL alone the Chorgers, Rasm, and Raiders have all moved cities recently lola-at least a franchise has never moved more than once
>>155018371Amerisames like to pretend state lines mean anything like its 1826
>>155019449>a-at least a franchise has never moved more than onceAnon, I...
>>155017523The most memberberries city>member Michael Jordan and 1996?>member Walter Payton and 1985?>member Patrick Kane and 2010?>member Kris Bryant and 2016?>member Paul Konerko and 2005?
>>155017358were they paying people to get in?
>>155019702Just kinda shows that if your NFL stadium can be entirely filled for a soccer game, you got way too small of a fucking stadium.
>>155019754Or maybe the team blows so much that it takes a lel game to show them up and embarrass them
