00:00What happens if Arlington Heights doesn't work out? What happens if Hammond doesn't work out?
00:03No.
00:04What then? Right? Like, that to me is literally on the table now because of how far into this thing
00:11we are
00:11without any sort of clarity, without any sort of momentum, without any sort of sense that there is direction happening.
00:18You know, and so I don't know where this whole saga spins next.
00:23I think that the Bears, again, I think we're probably all collectively in agreement that choice A would be to
00:29get something done here in the state of Illinois and play in Arlington Heights.
00:32But we're, you know, again, five years removed from the initial bid on the property and they're still stuck.
00:38And then there's hurdles in Hammond that are a lot higher than are often portrayed for them to clear.
00:45And then there's league hurdles that have to be cleared.
00:47And so I don't know if it answers your question, but I think whatever sound effect that we just played,
00:52just play that on a loop every time you talk about the stadium and scream your head off and then
00:57just try to wait to get some sort of answer.
01:00Because it doesn't seem, particularly over the last year, you know, that anybody is pulling the rope in the same
01:06direction.
01:07It's just a bunch of people.
01:09It sounds like the league has their decision, though.
01:13So if Roger Goodell is getting involved with the Illinois legislature, it sounds like the league knows exactly where the
01:18Bears should be.
01:20Certainly a push.
01:21It's certainly a significant push.
01:24We'll see if that push goes anywhere.
01:26You know, just I remember sitting on my couch at 430 in the morning on that.
01:32I guess it was Sunday turned into Monday when the state legislature adjourned and being like, oh, my God, like,
01:38I don't know where this goes next.
01:39And how you get the leadership from the organization married up with the politicians in the state, the politicians in
01:47the city, and just trying to get something carved out that makes sense.
01:51And it just it feels like a headache.
01:53And it's like, oh, my God, like, I don't know where this goes next.
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