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Сентябрь
2022

It’s Official. A Chicago Bears Tradition Is About To Go Extinct

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The Chicago Bears are a founding NFL franchise. They’ve been around for over a century now. Such a legacy comes with many traditions, some of which the McCaskey family continues to embrace. However, as Bob Dylan famously sang, “The times they are a-changin’.” While traditions are nice, they also tend to stand in the way of progress. For years the Bears have leaned on running the ball and playing great defense to win. That worked fine 40 years ago, but it’s done little for them in the past decade. The NFL is a quarterback league.

That is why the organization has spent so many resources trying to fix it. Sadly another tradition was officially put on death row. Team president Ted Phillips and chairman George McCaskey conducted a Q-and-A session in Arlington Heights to discuss their early plans for a new stadium at Arlington Park. Plenty of details were discussed. One of the most important was that the building would be enclosed. Some clung to the possibility that this could mean a retractable roof, keeping the idea of Bears Weather alive.

As Josh Schrock of NBC Sports Chicago clarified, Phillips ended those hopes.

However, Phillips did discuss the issue of whether the new stadium would be enclosed.

Should this plan proceed and be completed, there will be no more Bear Weather.

Phillips said the stadium would be fully enclosed, and a retractable roof would not be in the cards. The Bears have done their homework on retractable roofs and believe the costs are “prohibitive” and “the return isn’t there.” Phillips used U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota as an example of a fully enclosed stadium that makes you feel like you’re outside even though it’s enclosed.

The Chicago Bears are looking to maximize profit.

From a business perspective, the decision makes perfect sense. The organization will be able to host all sorts of events with a domed stadium, including college basketball, professional wrestling, concerts, and maybe even a Super Bowl down the line. An outdoor stadium was never going to give them those opportunities. At the same time, one can’t help but feel George Halas would be disappointed by this idea. Bears football has always been tied to the weather.

Think of the bitterly cold 1963 NFL championship, the snow-swept 1985 NFC title game, or the Fog Bowl in 1988. There was the insanely windy game against San Francisco in 2005, the mud-drenched win over Baltimore in 2013, and the frigid primetime drubbing of the Rams in 2018. All of those memories don’t hold the same appeal without the weather. Now the Chicago Bears are going to be just another domed team.

Granted, it will make the viewing experience for fans in the building far easier. Still, it’s hard not to feel like this change will remove some of the team’s soul. Alas, change is inevitable. One trade-off could be the new stadium makes crowd noise a far bigger factor. Bears fans are always loud. Being able to weaponize it would be a nice change.




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