@patregnier Contrast this situation to the NBA Finals where the NBA bent over backwards to not suspend Wemby for games in a series they absolutely wanted the Knicks to win.
@patregnier These automatic suspensions for future games is such a cultural difference. Americans rightly believe that getting thrown out of a game AND the next one for accidentally stepping on someone is completely absurd and refuse to accept it.
@IrishBearsShow Nah, dunking on Illinois politicians is fine but the Bears have done absolutely nothing to convince people that moving out of Chicago benefits the tax payer in any way. They’ve had a century to build a stadium and they’ve never done it.
@fubbaquestor@Real_Landlord7@estevenj@TheHultmanBeat Money they make in AH will come at the expense of money that publicly owned Soldier Field would generate…. I just don’t think that’s true of a site in Hammond which will not be an attractive venue for big name acts. Why should Tax Payers subsidize a competing venue?
@Real_Landlord7@estevenj@TheHultmanBeat So let Indiana pay it if they want it makes literally no difference to me (Hammond would actually be easier for me personally). No objective economist thinks these stadium deals are good for tax payer.
@Real_Landlord7@estevenj@TheHultmanBeat If they are asking for public funds either in infrastructure or tax breaks it *IS* publicly funded. Taylor Swift is not doing three days of concerts in Hammond, she will in Arlington Heights…. The Bears want the profits from that they can pay for it.
@Real_Landlord7@estevenj@TheHultmanBeat I’m a resident of the City of Chicago… why should I pay taxes so that the Bears can move out of the city to one suburb over another? The Bears are banking on people falling for their sentimental BS to paper over a century of incompetence.
@estevenj@TheHultmanBeat They wouldn’t be in the city anymore though would they? Why should taxpayers subsidize a venue which would compete with their own publicly owned one?