What If The Chicago Bears Actually Move To Indiana???

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1. As an Indiana person, I love this idea, but what do you guys think?

2. Then they'll be the Bears of South Bend, or Munster. Whichever city you choose. The Munster Bears has a certain ring to it.

3. The Giants and Jets play in New Jersey. The Chiefs are moving over the State border this year. It’s right there. But Gary, as I remember it, was a very dangerous place. But that was 40 years ago. Hopefully, they won’t destroy the dunes. That would be a huge, terrible loss.

4. no way the city lets them leave one of the biggest media markets in the country

5. It's a really wonderful idea, and I root for Gary to make a turnaround. But the economic benefits of stadiums are vastly overrated. If Gary truly wanted to use this as a way to improve the city, there would have to be a way that the money gets filtered back into the community in a clear and measurable way. You may state the jobs created, but again economic research shows stadiums have nowhere near the beneficial impact on local citizens that teams and local governments like to say they do. So the question outside of will the Bears truly entertain this idea is – does this actually benefit the city? I think if it's done the right way it does. But local gov't is usually so damn eager to have their one defining moment that they'll do things that will be the next mayor or governors problem, not theirs.

6. I think it's a great idea. The bears deserve better then the city of Chicago. Bear down!

7. Move wherever you want . taxpayers shouldn't subsidize football teams.

8. As someone who lives in NWI, we don’t want it

9. You’re credibility left when you said Indiana Dunes National Park is in North East Indiana

10. Imagine if parks and rec was still running

11. This is an idiotic idea and you might be burned at the stake for saying it. There's no way they'd ever let this team leave Illinois. Leaving the city for the suburbs is a huge stretch. This is DOA idea.

12. immediately started the video with misinformation 🤦🏽‍♂️ indiana dunes is northwest not northeast indiana

13. This is not the first time the Bears threatened to move to NW Indiana. Indiana tried to woo them away back in the early 2000s, before the Soldier Field renovation.

14. I actually live in portage and grew up in Chicagoland/ NWI. Didn’t know you were around here and I think it’s pretty cool a channel I frequent is so local! As a lifelong bears fan though, I do not want them to come here. I understand the wealth it would potentially bring to the area but also I feel like people fail to realize the significance of the Bears being in Chicago. We are not the Jets or Giants or any other team that isn’t in their actual city. The cultural and historical impact of the Bears is like no other. On top of that, while it technically all “Chicagoland”, I feel as though Indiana residents have a lot of resentment for those coming from Illinois. I say that as someone who came from there and works in the community. Certainly a very complicated situation the front office has on its hands!

15. Ash Ketchem does not approve of the bears moving to Gary

16. As a bears fan who hates that democrat run hell hole, indiana sounds like the right move.

17. This is all stadium bs. Every team does it when they get shut down on free $$ which they have and should.

18. Rockem Sockem Robot Governor Pritzker of Illinois will find a way to keep da Bears in Chicago.

19. This would be great for Chicago and the State of Illinois. Chicago will still get the tourist revenues as no one is going to be a Gary tourist and Indiana taxpayers get to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize Billionaires. Chicago is Tom Sawyer in this story. Thank you Hoosiers!

20. The Gary grizzlies!

21. Why make Indiana more shitty?

22. Dude. Your state is not even important enough to warrant a second NFL team.