So this is how it ends.
Not with a Lombardi.
Not with a parade down Michigan Avenue.
But with a moving truck headed to Hammond.
The Bears, charter NFL franchise, Monsters of the Midway, proud tenants of wind. Packing up their nostalgia, crossing state lines chasing lower property taxes.
What’s left behind?
Soldier Field renovated into a spaceship landed on a Roman ruin, echoing the ghosts of 1985 and reruns of “we’re rebuilding.”
The Chicago Mayor will promise a bold new vision for the lakefront. Explaining the negotiation was complex, pointing blame at Arlington. The Governor of Illinois will form a task force. Translation: everyone blinked at the same time and the team walked.
And Chicago, Illinois Bears fans? They’ll cope the only way Bears fans know how:
By insisting this is actually strategic.
By saying Hammond is “basically Chicagoland.”
By reminding everyone that tradition matters even if tradition lately means 7–10.
The cruel poetry is this:
The Bears leave the city that made them famous to chase revenue streams, luxury boxes, and parking lots large enough to host an emotional support fleet of pickup trucks.
Because in the end, the NFL isn’t about loyalty.
It’s about square footage.
Chicago didn’t lose the Bears.
The Bears just optimized geography.
And in Hammond, someone’s already designing a stadium with better tailgating and worse winter excuses.
Monsters of the Midway?
More like Commuters of Convenience.
Da Bears!
Not with a Lombardi.
Not with a parade down Michigan Avenue.
But with a moving truck headed to Hammond.
The Bears, charter NFL franchise, Monsters of the Midway, proud tenants of wind. Packing up their nostalgia, crossing state lines chasing lower property taxes.
What’s left behind?
Soldier Field renovated into a spaceship landed on a Roman ruin, echoing the ghosts of 1985 and reruns of “we’re rebuilding.”
The Chicago Mayor will promise a bold new vision for the lakefront. Explaining the negotiation was complex, pointing blame at Arlington. The Governor of Illinois will form a task force. Translation: everyone blinked at the same time and the team walked.
And Chicago, Illinois Bears fans? They’ll cope the only way Bears fans know how:
By insisting this is actually strategic.
By saying Hammond is “basically Chicagoland.”
By reminding everyone that tradition matters even if tradition lately means 7–10.
The cruel poetry is this:
The Bears leave the city that made them famous to chase revenue streams, luxury boxes, and parking lots large enough to host an emotional support fleet of pickup trucks.
Because in the end, the NFL isn’t about loyalty.
It’s about square footage.
Chicago didn’t lose the Bears.
The Bears just optimized geography.
And in Hammond, someone’s already designing a stadium with better tailgating and worse winter excuses.
Monsters of the Midway?
More like Commuters of Convenience.
Da Bears!
Ditka has not furry, than saying what we all want to say.
We are left in dismay by this announcement plight,
Only awkward banter about Arlington racetrack and what could have been,
Da Hammond Bears must Bear Down! For we will drive across state lines, pay tolls, overdrink and fight,
We will still gamble, buy tickets, and Sweetness, and Urlacher Jersey's, while wishing Jay Cutler might have led us to one,
This isn't just another day, it's the end of an era,
We are left in dismay by this announcement plight,
Only awkward banter about Arlington racetrack and what could have been,
Da Hammond Bears must Bear Down! For we will drive across state lines, pay tolls, overdrink and fight,
We will still gamble, buy tickets, and Sweetness, and Urlacher Jersey's, while wishing Jay Cutler might have led us to one,
This isn't just another day, it's the end of an era,
by Rump_Supporter_47 February 21, 2026
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