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Just as one proxy of domed Chicago stadiums' potential. https://www.billboard.com/top-stadiums-2/ https://www.billboard.com/top-stadiums/ https://www.billboard.com/2023-year-end-boxscore-charts/#pmc-protected-embed-3 With exception of Vegas, the top stadiums for concerts is usually just a market size list. And Soldier field a bottom half of top 10 venue globally. How much growth potential does the market actually have? The extra 5-6 months or whatever don't matter much because tours just aren't popular then. Or the ones that are active target 20k type venues. Or the Bears aren't gonna want the turnaround times that hosting concerts entail during their season. Then you get into things like the mega events. The Bears own optimistic economic projections was still only like one mega event every 3 years. When it's said and done one every 5 years would be lucky. But so many of these events look for their own tax breaks and/or come with massive hosting and security costs they don't cover the incrimental revenue. Whats left? As convention center? Again, would that actually be additive or just displace Rosemont and McCormick convention opportunities?

Probably not. You can dig around other large capacity venues and there isn't a great track record for doing significantly more shows. It will most likely just displace tax revenue with just small gains in new taxes.

Theres no real evidence to support that. Maybe that's the case, but ultimately what Bears and AH negotiate and what Bears actually build is a black box. Bears desire for tax certainty isn't being met with any certainty of larger development. Aka they'll come looking for more to get the entire parcel developed.

I thought same thing early on. Chicago gets way more spillover benefit from Hammond on tourism based revenues than in Arlington Heights... Whats gonna be really effed up is if this PILOT I'll goes through and Bears still bail for Hammond. Because it has potential to really exploit local taxpayers. Though interestingly there's several Chicago based projects that might use the PILOT bill too (One Central and Ishbia's new Amtrack track development).

Overthecap.com says 10m of 2027 became fully guaranteed on March 13. I have a source that says only 8m. Full 10M is already injury guaranteed. In any case, he's basically around for 2027.

Tons of politicians coming out swinging now saying the Bears are incompetent. Which is totally believable. Warren:

No more so than Singletary. Who also got the same number treatment. Too many players in NFL, and too many numbers to retire all "deserving". They should have a ring of honor, a small subset of retired numbers, and other ways to honor others (along the line of Piccolo award). Eventually unretire most if not all.

Maybe it was another NFCN right above them then.

Second least is what I saw. Was one of the other NFC teams right below them.

No difference in terms of the signing benefit. But teams could be waiting to make cuts. Although I don't really know of any team that is so cap strapped that they are waiting for a June 1 cut. Monday after draft was cutoff to be a CFA, and thus FAs no longer count against comp pick formula. So that threshold is passed, but I don't think that was relevant for Bears at this stage.

I mean I'm sure Lloyd is actually good but I'm also glad they didn't go to comfortable (Pax) route either. Is this guy anything? Impossible to know. Feels like such a crap shoot role.

Only because they were trying to pronounce something else in this case

$31 to the first Score caller who calls him Tiananmen.

Nah, they just didn't have enough space to sign the draft class or get through the season. $10m is arguably still light to get through season with. But they could opt to free up some more later on, like end of camp or even within first few weeks of season.