re: It looks like the Bears are heading to Indiana

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Sure. If all we are talking about is the home team games. We aren’t. At all…

NFL stadiums are being built to host events every week now. That’s the future. That’s how they make money. Concerts, events, other sports, etc.

Much less often are there concerts and events like final fours in MLB stadiums.

You don’t build restaurants and attractions for 9 days a year.

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In all those cases (concerts, Final Fours, Wrestlemanias, Super Bowls, CFP championship, etc.), they’re rare, one-off events.

Even if you have 20+ concerts every year, they’re still distinct “one-offs”. Morgan Wallen, Beyoncé, Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Springsteen, Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, McCartney, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Coldplay, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga… they could all sell out the same stadium in one year and a person would only be interested in going to 2-3 of them.

It’s different than MLB/NHL/NBA where the location/accessibility of the stadium could be a reason I give up my season ticket package and/or go to only 4-5 games/year instead of 20+. That won’t happen (on a meaningful scale) with an NFL team. And the other events are still one-offs.

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Even if you have 20+ concerts every year, they’re still distinct “one-offs”. Morgan Wallen, Beyoncé, Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Springsteen, Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, McCartney, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Coldplay, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga… they could all sell out the same stadium in one year and a person would only be interested in going to 2-3 of them.

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Respectfully, have you not seen what the bears ownership wants? They are trying to create an entertainment ‘district’ where they own the rights to parking, entertainment, restaurants, etc.

There’s 52 weeks in a year, it wouldn’t be that difficult to do something weekly. Bears play on Sundays, you could easily host a concert Friday and a Saturday college football game.

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Respectfully, have you not seen what the bears ownership wants? They are trying to create an entertainment ‘district’ where they own the rights to parking, entertainment, restaurants, etc.

There’s 52 weeks in a year, it wouldn’t be that difficult to do something weekly. Bears play on Sundays, you could easily host a concert Friday and a Saturday college football game.

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Yes, I’ve said that throughout this thread. Which is why cheap land / financial concessions from the government is more important than location/accessibility for NFL organizations (as long as you’re reasonably close to the hub city, like within 45 miles), so you can develop that land/infrastructure. And Indiana is providing a better financial option for the Bears than Illinois.

All these different events you’re referring to are going to be having different people interested/showing up each week/weekend to watch a different event/concert/product and utilizing said entertainment district. Different clientele, different demographics, etc. It’ll constantly be in use by the 10 million ppl in the Chicagoland region who have a wide range of interests, no problem; you’re not relying on the same people constantly coming back for each event. Each concert/event is essentially a different product - other than the Bears games, and there’s only 8/9 of those, mostly on Sundays.

This is a different consideration than the Cubs/Blackhawks/Bulls (and Braves), who are essentially putting out the same product/event 81 or 41 times a year, often on weeknights. In that case, you want to make it easy/convenient for people to get to, either by putting it downtown for ease after work or in an affluent part of the city/burbs where a lot of fans live. For MLB/NHL/NBA, you’re frequently relying on many of the same people continuously coming back to numerous games throughout the season.

Hammond Indiana, aka East Chicago. Still closer than Miami, San Fran and Bostons stadiums.

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Chicago must be a terrible city if they can't keep an NFL team.

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How much different is this than the giants and jets? Neither of whom play home games in the city, or state, of New York.

From a business standpoint, moving from an area of 9,000,000 customers to an area of 70,000 customers doesn’t really make a lot of sense.

I highly doubt people from Chicagoland are going to drive 40 minutes to a different state just to see a football game.

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I highly doubt people from Chicagoland are going to drive 40 minutes to a different state just to see a football game.

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I’d bet you’re very wrong. How far do New York and Los Angeles fans travel to see their team?

I’ll bet the 49ers are farther from San Francisco than the bears new stadium would be from soldier field.

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A tremendous amount if bears fans live in the loop and have no cars. This should be interesting

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The loop in Chicago is a very small area, and most of it isn’t residential

The Chiefs and Bears both playing in dome stadiums absolutely sucks for the NFL. Outdoor football, especially in the winter time is what makes the NFL intriguing. Moving these two iconic teams to sterile domed environments is the issue. Not whether they are a few miles here or there from their base