The Bears announced in June that they were moving forward with stadium development plans across state lines in Hammond, Indiana.This isn’t the first time the Bears have talked about moving to Indiana, as there were discussions in the late 1990s, but none were serious.Now? The discussions are as serious as Ben Johnson saying he wants the Bears to have the highest-scoring offense in NFL history.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr.said that while the city has been preparing for this, even he didn’t think the work would eventually lead to Hammond potentially becoming the next home of the Bears.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.
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26, 2024.(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)"We did a lot of things in Hammond and in Indiana to prepare us for this day," McDermott told OutKick in a recent interview.
"But you know, I'd be lying to you if I told you I thought that when we were doing this, I thought we'd be the future home of the Chicago Bears."The Bears completed their review of the Lost Marsh site in Hammond while also doing their due diligence on the Lake Terminal site.McDermott said those potential sites for a stadium came to be through efforts to clean up the area."The site that we're talking about right now, if you were looking at it when I first took over, it was I don't think the Bears would have even thought it was possible to locate a stadium there because there was so many different landowners.
it was underutilized and it was just old-fashioned, old thinking," McDermott said."For the first two or three terms, in cooperation with the state government, we started assembling dozens and dozen...