I am a nut, because I absolutely love going to Soldier Field for Bears games. I try to get there as early before a game as possible, just to soak up the feeling of being there. Even when the weather is brutal, with 30 to 40 mph winds and chill factors below zero - I absolutely LOVE it there. I have SO many great memories there (and heartbreaking memories too).
I would rather sit through a Bears-Packers game in sub-zero weather, than park my ass in that fancy-dance Dallas place that Jones built. Retractable lids? Screw them. I want to watch real men playing the game of football as it was meant to be played, even when it's like frozen tundra.
Regarding the Super Bowl. Ticket sales do result in a lot of revenue (around $200 mil now), but that is just a piece of the revenue pie. Actually the other revenue streams are much more than the tickets. You can Google it to see the breakdown. They can also increase the ticket prices to make up for fewer seats - and people will still kill to get those tickets.
Man, there is nothing better than being in downtown Chicago, just off Lake Michigan, and watching the best franchise in football play on real turf. But - like everything else in America, they'll someday cave to the wimpy people and probably move at some point so the pansy-ass people can sit in a climate controlled stadium and watch players on fake grass with a roof to protect their delicate heads from snow and rain.
Screw that.
Last edited by JustAnotherBearsFan99; 06-01-2012 at 11:52 PM.
I'm with you brother. To me that's Bears football at it's finest. Playing in the elements and the mud and the blood and the beer. To me having a SB in Chicago means nothing if the Bears aren't playing in it. I know the city would benefit greatly but I don't care one way of the other. I think Rahm Emanuel has an uphill battle ahead of him lobbying for a Chicago SB. JMHO
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap.
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I'm with you brother. To me that's Bears football at it's finest. Playing in the elements and the mud and the blood and the beer. To me having a SB in Chicago means nothing if the Bears aren't playing in it. I know the city would benefit greatly but I don't care one way of the other. I think Rahm Emanuel has an uphill battle ahead of him lobbying for a Chicago SB. JMHO
I think so too. The Super Bowl attracts a lot of people who really don't care much about football, so much as they want to be a part of a great party event - and they want to sit in comfort caring little about the teams play on the field. They'd think it barbaric to sit in a real football stadium like Soldier Field and have to be exposed to cold weather, wind & maybe even (shudder) snowflakes.
The pic below is the Bears/Packers 2007 with 40mph winds and bitter cold. But we were dressed for it & enjoyed watching the Bears pound Favre's butt into the frozen tundra turf all game long. We were in the nosebleed seats in the upper bowl. I thought the winds were going to blow my fat butt outta the stadium ....I'd rather watch a game (and win over the Packers) like this than sit in that whimpy Dallas Palace watching the deadbeat cowgirls.
The other pic is one of my favorites of Papa Bear coaching in a snowstorm.
Last edited by JustAnotherBearsFan99; 06-02-2012 at 12:40 AM.
I am a nut, because I absolutely love going to Soldier Field for Bears games. I try to get there as early before a game as possible, just to soak up the feeling of being there. Even when the weather is brutal, with 30 to 40 mph winds and chill factors below zero - I absolutely LOVE it there. I have SO many great memories there (and heartbreaking memories too).
I would rather sit through a Bears-Packers game in sub-zero weather, than park my ass in that fancy-dance Dallas place that Jones built. Retractable lids? Screw them. I want to watch real men playing the game of football as it was meant to be played, even when it's like frozen tundra.
Regarding the Super Bowl. Ticket sales do result in a lot of revenue (around $200 mil now), but that is just a piece of the revenue pie. Actually the other revenue streams are much more than the tickets. You can Google it to see the breakdown. They can also increase the ticket prices to make up for fewer seats - and people will still kill to get those tickets.
Man, there is nothing better than being in downtown Chicago, just off Lake Michigan, and watching the best franchise in football play on real turf. But - like everything else in America, they'll someday cave to the wimpy people and probably move at some point so the pansy-ass people can sit in a climate controlled stadium and watch players on fake grass with a roof to protect their delicate heads from snow and rain.
Screw that.
Should Soldier Field ever get more seats, or build a new stadium I sure as hell hope it won't be a doom, but an outside as it now. Teams that play in the hot weather everyday must come to the cold and windy city and shit them self in fear of the weather and the Bears.
But more people would hopefully be able to be louder and make it harder for the other team, but and the end of the day I still hope Soldier Field will get an expansion soon.
The southern teams or dome teams that have to play the Bears in Soldier Field late in the season struggle but more and more each years the end of the season usually includes a bunch of NFCN games so there isn't much of an advantage even over the dome teams like Minny and Detroit.
As for expanding Soldier Field I don't think they have any way to do it Zif. They might be able to add another section to the South Endzone but even that's doubtful. Because of the way it was designed to preserve those columns on the exterior what they got is about all they could get out of that design.
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap.
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
I just can't see them awarding the SB to a city with the smallest stadium in the NFL. Maybe that's something else they should have considered when they designed it. The other is a natural grass turf. There are too many other sites with a much larger capacity and I don't see the NFL giving up the revenues from 20,000 extra seats.
And I thought the SB was a sporting contents and not a money making extravagenza...... so what if it's cold, so what if the field is not in perfect condition, I'm getting pretty fed up with the sanitising of the game.
Lets make as much money as we can in the warmest place possible so all the journo's and NFL execs can have a jolly.
Ya bu that same vick a few years ago went up to GB(where it's colder) and rocked the Packers.
Weather hot/cold is becoming more and more irrelevant as these guys play everywhere in college and the pro's. The new stadium needs a retractable roof to ensure a SB.
Soldier Field is a monument to the times and great sports places typical of the “Golden Age of Sports” and is one of few such stadiums still standing. It was known as one of the great venues and one of Chicago's most famous landmarks. Crowds in excess of 100,000 were commonplace.
November 27, 1926 – Soldier Field was officially dedicated in front of a crowd of 110,000 during the Army v. Navy game. The game ended in a 21-21 tie.
September 23, 1927 - The epic Jack Dempsey/Gene Tunney heavyweight rematch featuring the controversial long count with 104,000 watching. Dempsey knocked down Tunney and Dempsey went to the wrong corner. The referee directed him to the right corner, and five seconds passed before he started counting out Tunney. Tunney, the champ, got up at nine, which should have been 14, and went on to beat Dempsey.
1937 – The largest crowd to watch a high school football game took place at Soldier Field with an estimated 115,000 watching the Austin v. Leo High School Prep Bowl football game.
1944 - 150,000 spectators attended a wartime visit by President Franklin Roosevelt.
1954 – 260,000 came to Soldier Field for a Catholic celebration.
1962 - 116,000 turned out to hear evangelist Billy Graham.
In 1944, 150,000 spectators attended a wartime visit by President Franklin Roosevelt
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Originally Posted by soulman 
....I'd rather watch a game (and win over the Packers) like this than sit in that whimpy Dallas Palace watching the deadbeat cowgirls.
