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The Bears almost certainly aren't bluffing. NFL owners wants ways to make money from their teams that they don't have to share with the players or the league. That used to be concessions, then 25 years ago it was luxury boxes, now it's non football events in a dome and real estate plays nearby. If they can build an entertainment complex on land they own, they can drive revenue to those businesses that they don't need to pay out in profit sharing.

The Bears might stick around if the Arlington site wasn't so perfect. Right by a metra stop and highway, tons of development space and in the middle of half their fan base? The only way the city keeps them at Soldier Field is if they pay through the nose. Which they should definitely not do. It's just the way things are.

Soldier is a great site for football and for fans, but the Bears have a middling valuation despite having a rapid fan base in the third largest market, which is also the only one of the top four markets that doesn't have two teams. Moving to Arlington might add $1.5B to the organization's value. I'd do it in a heartbeat if I owned the Bears, even if I missed the views.