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Gonz posted:If they won just ONE Lombardi Trophy, I would forfeit my right to complain about them for the rest of my life. I said that about the Cubs but it turns out when the team decides to intentionally go into the shitter after winning that elusive championship it is still extremely annoying!
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'm not worried about the bears because they will never win another Super Bowl. I just want them to have a passing game for one or even two seasons. And for the packers to end up in QB hell. from your posts to god's eyes
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R.D. Mangles posted:And for the packers to end up in QB hell. Alhamdulillah
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Jun 2, 2023 04:41
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:Seriously, we saw what happened when the Cubs won a World Series, do we really want the Lions winning a Super Bowl? The Cubs betrayed their idenity is the problem here.
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Jun 2, 2023 05:08
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SKULL.GIF posted:The Cubs betrayed their idenity is the problem here. The Cubsposting has breached containment! This is not a drill!!! Which Bears offensive players are most like Matt Mervis? Christopher Morel? Is anyone on the roster offense defense or ST enough of a leader to be Cool Kyle?
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Jun 2, 2023 13:55
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Forrest on Fire posted:The Cubsposting has breached containment! This is not a drill!!! Who? I quit watching the Cubs when the Ricketts decided they’re going to quit trying to win.
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Jun 2, 2023 14:13
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:Who? I quit watching the Cubs when the Ricketts decided they’re going to quit trying to win. I went to Wrigley a couple days ago and could name one (1) guy who played on the team. I dunno who this mervis guy is either, maybe they should try to not be bad The ricketrs started developing Wrigleyville even before the title, right? It's a weird mix now of the lovely old places, the new corporate buildings, and vacant places post COVID
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Forrest on Fire posted:The Cubsposting has breached containment! This is not a drill!!! I didn't do this, don't blame me for this
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Broke rear end McCaskeys realized they might not get money and tax breaks from Cook County so they’re pretending they might actually go to Naperville instead https://twitter.com/kpowell720/status/1664710862362296321 Feels like you don’t really have that much leverage when you play this card after investing $200m to buy the Arlington Heights site, but what do I know
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xbilkis posted:Broke rear end McCaskeys realized they might not get money and tax breaks from Cook County so they’re pretending they might actually go to Naperville instead What an absolute joke Watch one of the McCaskeys buy a house and say well we're going to tear it down and rebuild, so really you shouldn't use our purchase price for the tax assessment. Heck, they could have just waited to buy until right after the reassessment cycle in Arlington Heights and not had this be an issue for several years! trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Jun 2, 2023 20:58
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Hey Bears, build a stadium out in rockford
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Jun 2, 2023 21:08
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Dexo posted:Hey Bears, build a stadium out in rockford They could share a parking lot with magic waters! different off seasons, it'd work great Bears fans wouldn't mind the bit of extra drive; heck, they showed up in Champaign just fine for the '02 season, with the exception of the Tampa bay night game after christmas when Henry Burris threw 3 picks in 3 consecutive series , none of which lasted longer than 2 plays edit had to check burris stats . he threw a pass for 17 yards, incredible trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Jun 2, 2023 21:11
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I'm excited for the Bears to put their new stadium where Naperville has a diverging diamond offramp and have absolutely furious and enraged fans screaming on 670 the score about it while they're driving the wrong way through it
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I flew from the UK for two Lions games over Thanksgiving in 2013. The Packers were the opponents on Thanksgiving, but they didn't have Rodgers so the Lions shellacked them 40-10. At some point in the fourth quarter when the game was out of hand, a Packers fan in a jersey and hard hat (?) lifted up the sleeve of his jersey, flexed his muscles and kissed a tattoo of the Lombardi trophy which had the Packers wins numbered below it. I found it genuinely hilarious
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Jun 2, 2023 21:21
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Maybe Decatur can bring the team back home, it's cheaper there!
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anyway, this is all just a dumb leverage play. they are gonna get like 10-25% off the taxes or whatever from Arlington Heights and then keep it moving.
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xbilkis posted:Broke rear end McCaskeys realized they might not get money and tax breaks from Cook County so they’re pretending they might actually go to Naperville instead They absolutely have leverage. Naperville is wooing them hard. It isn't like the property suddenly becomes worthless if they don't build a stadium on it. They'll build where can get the most profit from. I doubt any real estate developer has ever thought "oh no, prime real estate in Arlington Heights! Whatever will I do with this!?!?" Dexo posted:anyway, this is all just a dumb leverage play. they are gonna get like 10-25% off the taxes or whatever from Arlington Heights and then keep it moving. Also this.
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Jun 2, 2023 21:28
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trevorreznik posted:They could share a parking lot with magic waters! different off seasons, it'd work great They are building that casino complex where the Clock Tower used to be. There is just all that loving land in that area back where that AMC theater is right off of 90(near where I grew up), that is just doing nothing on the border of Winnebago and Boone county.
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xbilkis posted:Broke rear end McCaskeys realized they might not get money and tax breaks from Cook County so they’re pretending they might actually go to Naperville instead  why didn't they use Rosemont like every other dipshit owner in this city begging for handouts? I have a feeling the Naperville NIMBYs are not going to be up for a giant stadium.Rahm was horrendous, but the one cool thing he did was laugh in the Cubs owner's face when they threatened to move to the burbs.
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Dexo posted:They are building that casino complex where the Clock Tower used to be. poo poo, they could use the Belvidere auto plant now that it's permanently idled. Is the casino still not built?
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trevorreznik posted:with the exception of the Tampa bay night game after christmas when Henry Burris threw 3 picks in 3 consecutive series , none of which lasted longer than 2 plays I remember this game vividly because Tampa obliterated them so bad. It was like watching a high school team try to score on Alabama.
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Niwrad posted:Rahm was horrendous, but the one cool thing he did was laugh in the Cubs owner's face when they threatened to move to the burbs. To be fair, Ricketts made it abundantly clear they weren't ever going to leave Chicago, the Ricketts never actually seriously engage with Rosemont to even feign seriously considering leaving Wrigley, and Rahm and literally everyone knew it. Ricketts is a mark of a fan, that dude was never leaving Wrigley.
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trevorreznik posted:poo poo, they could use the Belvidere auto plant now that it's permanently idled. Isn't there a ton of lovely land in the south suburbs they can build this stadium? Go build it in Peotone or wherever they were supposed to build that airport no one would have used.
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Dexo posted:To be fair, Ricketts made it abundantly clear they weren't ever going to leave Chicago, the Ricketts never actually seriously engage with Rosemont to even feign seriously considering leaving Wrigley, and Rahm and literally everyone knew it. Of course they weren't. I just remember a press conference where they asked Rahm about some report that the Ricketts were talking with Rosemont and he literally laughed out loud. I know it was never a serious consideration but I do think the Ricketts put out some stories to try and scare the city. Those racist Ricketts e-mails that were leaked to Gawker back in the day talked about it if I remember correctly. They were always staying at Wrigley because you can fill that park up even with 70 win teams.
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Dexo posted:To be fair, Ricketts made it abundantly clear they weren't ever going to leave Chicago, the Ricketts never actually seriously engage with Rosemont to even feign seriously considering leaving Wrigley, and Rahm and literally everyone knew it. Yeah, he publicly declared for a year they weren't ever gonna leave Wrigley, then tried the ol' "if you don't do what we want, we'll move to Rosemont!" Worse bluff ever
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trevorreznik posted:poo poo, they could use the Belvidere auto plant now that it's permanently idled. Nope, they have a pseudo casino thing where Giovanni's used to be now, after I think some silly poo poo happened where the family that owned it was forced to sell. But nope, I think they said end of 2023, early 2024 is when it finishes.
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Niwrad posted:Of course they weren't. I just remember a press conference where they asked Rahm about some report that the Ricketts were talking with Rosemont and he literally laughed out loud. Yeah, he did said it once that he was considering it, Rahm and literally every alderperson laughed, because he'd spent like the past 3 years talking about how much he loved wrigley and would never leave, and they knew he wasn't about that life. They did leak/say it, but no one respected it because like Rosmont's mayor like never even got a cursory conversation about it or whatever.
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I’m gonna throw an idea out there. Tell me if it’s too extreme or not. Underground Bears Stadium & Entertainment Complex Never again shall weather interfere with a Bears game. The stadium will be 300 feet under the Earth in a climate controlled reinforced titanium sphere. Huge freight elevators will deliver fans to the games. The ground level is just a series of parking decks and an enormous series of Colossus of Rhodes-style statues of Bears greats.
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Gonz posted:I’m gonna throw an idea out there. Tell me if it’s too extreme or not. It sounds good on paper, but what happens when the mole people invade?
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Sataere posted:It sounds good on paper, but what happens when the mole people invade? I’d sure like to see the mole people try to infiltrate a 20 foot thick titantium sphere the size of an NFL stadium. I don’t think they have the gall or the technology to accomplish such a feat.
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Gonz posted:I’d sure like to see the mole people try to infiltrate a 20 foot thick titantium sphere the size of an NFL stadium. The dark web says they are biding their time. Also, the correct answer is that mole people can only make football more awesome.
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Gonz posted:I’m gonna throw an idea out there. Tell me if it’s too extreme or not. Block 37 bears stadium
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I flew from the UK for two Lions games over Thanksgiving in 2013. The Packers were the opponents on Thanksgiving, but they didn't have Rodgers so the Lions shellacked them 40-10. At some point in the fourth quarter when the game was out of hand, a Packers fan in a jersey and hard hat (?) lifted up the sleeve of his jersey, flexed his muscles and kissed a tattoo of the Lombardi trophy which had the Packers wins numbered below it. I found it genuinely hilarious I was at that game too! The guy next to us was inexplicably a Packers fan with no ties to Wisconsin or the surrounding area (I think he was actually a Detroiter who I believe said he played at Oregon State?) and he kept shouting “apple turnover!” when the Packers were on defense. We were right in front of an endzone and I think he finally shut up when Suh got a safety where he held Matt Flynn like a small child.
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The other thing I remember about the game was that it snowed over night, and when I woke up at 7am I looked out and saw some dudes throwing a football around in a parking lot
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Sataere posted:They absolutely have leverage. Naperville is wooing them hard. It isn't like the property suddenly becomes worthless if they don't build a stadium on it. They'll build where can get the most profit from. I doubt any real estate developer has ever thought "oh no, prime real estate in Arlington Heights! Whatever will I do with this!?!?" They could theoretically sell off the land but nobody’s going to have the same desire to buy the entire thing in one fell swoop and value it as highly as the Bears did, and I don’t know that the McCaskeys have the cash flow to let the Arlington site sit in limbo while they go through the process of acquiring a *second* stadium site in a place where land is gonna be way harder to come by. Even if they can afford it, any remotely feasible site in Naperville is probably going to be way worse logistically than Arlington Park (which they probably don’t give a poo poo about) and won’t let them pursue their fantasy of having a cash cow commercial district around the stadium (which they absolutely would care about)
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Gonz posted:I’m gonna throw an idea out there. Tell me if it’s too extreme or not. Where would tailgating be held?
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Yea I give the bears like a 1% chance of moving on from Arlington. Maybe if Naperville or wherever decided to give them a shitload of land for free, but I don’t see that happening. They’re just trying to get relief from Arlington, and I hope they just tell the bears to pound sand.
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xbilkis posted:They could theoretically sell off the land but nobody’s going to have the same desire to buy the entire thing in one fell swoop and value it as highly as the Bears did, and I don’t know that the McCaskeys have the cash flow to let the Arlington site sit in limbo while they go through the process of acquiring a *second* stadium site in a place where land is gonna be way harder to come by. Don't kid yourself. Arlington Park is going to be a logistics nightmare. 53 cannot handle stadium traffic. Although I'm not sure 88 will be much better. As for the price they spent, I really doubt they went above market value to purchase the property. They spent about 600k per acre. Pretty sure a home on half an acre would cost that. Just a quick look at houses for sale in Palatine/Rolling Meadows/Arlington Heights shows that what they paid is what it is worth. The assessors absolutely nailed the valuation and the Bears had to know what the value was. They're just trying to get concessions. But if they don't get concessions, they still have a valuable piece of property that will only go up in value.
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