NFL News The Bears appear to be moving to Indiana

[TommyD4207]

Wondering why a state wants to keep a team is pretty funny when you look at from the Patriots point of view. If the Patriots leave for a new stadium/state, are any of us ever going to Foxboro Massachusetts again? I know I won't have any reason to.

That Papa Gino's is one of the better ones.

(It's a bedroom community for both Boston and Providence. People will go to Foxboro plenty. Just, not on Sundays)

 

[50-yard-line]

The owners of the Bears should take a good long look at how loved Art Modell is in Cleveland.

Moving the Browns to Baltimore destroyed the hearts of so many people, my sis included.

 

[1960Pats]

Yes but O'Leary doesn't know his arse from his anus.

Aren't the arse and the anus the same thing?

I think O'Leary knows finances.

 

[1960Pats]

Yes! Why do they not learn from history?

Rome fell after building the Colosseum.

QED.

Great idea. Let's talk about something more relative and up to date, like the Colosseum in Rome.

 

[1960Pats]

The owners of the Bears should take a good long look at how loved Art Modell is in Cleveland.

Moving the Browns to Baltimore destroyed the hearts of so many people, my sis included.

I don't think the owners care all that much about the fans. Their teams played in empty stadiums during the coronavirus and still made a profit. Not saying they don't want fans but their bottom line is their bottom line.

 

[XLIX]

The owners of the Bears should take a good long look at how loved Art Modell is in Cleveland.

Moving the Browns to Baltimore destroyed the hearts of so many people, my sis included.

Moving to a Chicago suburb - even one across state lines - is nowhere near the same thing as moving 500 miles away. An awful lot of southsiders will have an easier drive, though the folks from up north might have to get up a half hour earlier….

 

[XLIX]

Great idea. Let's talk about something more relative and up to date, like the Colosseum in Rome.

They were originally going to build the Colosseum in Verona, but the owners backed out when they funded an environmental study and discovered the proposed site was found to have excessive contamination.

 

[mgteich]

The owners of the Bears should take a good long look at how loved Art Modell is in Cleveland.

Moving the Browns to Baltimore destroyed the hearts of so many people, my sis included.

And they would do it again in a heartbeat

 

[mgteich]

I don't think the owners care all that much about the fans. Their teams played in empty stadiums during the coronavirus and still made a profit. Not saying they don't want fans but their bottom line is their bottom line.

The bottom line and value of the team is #1 as is should be unless the fans want to own the team as in GB.

 

[mgteich]

We are NOT the Boston Patriots. Should the owners have taken a worse economic environment and stayed in Boston?

Sometimes (often), the big city and big state politicians just decided that they won't do what the team needs them to do. Many here agree with their position.
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How Boston Lost The Patriots And 'New England' Grabbed the NFL's 'Gold Standard'

In March of 1971, there was no Twitter. There was no 24-hour sports radio in Boston. No ESPN. It was in the newspaper, 43 years ago this week, that area…

www.wgbh.org

 

[borisman]

O'Leary believes that 5 states are in terrible finanical shape. His primary issue is real estate. In any case, he recommends that folks move out of CA, ILL, NJ, CT and NY. At very least, he recommends not making investments in those states.

O'Leary believes the best states for real estate and other investments are TX, FL, NC, TEN and AZ.

Yeah, I did some research in past couple of years and came up with some of the same states, so much so that I will be looking to move to either NC (my niece lives there now) or Tennessee. A friends' wife in TN is a real estate broker so if I go near Nashville I got a RE agent. We went to HS in Brockton and he said TN is awesome. But now is not the time to move though for several complications. I see on here that life has been hard for several other posters so I can relate.

 

[50-yard-line]

Moving to a Chicago suburb - even one across state lines - is nowhere near the same thing as moving 500 miles away. An awful lot of southsiders will have an easier drive, though the folks from up north might have to get up a half hour earlier….

It's the state that matters the most - if the Pats had moved to Hartford, which is an easy drive from central/western MA, they would have lost tons of fans.

The Whalers were hardly mentioned on Boston media - no on ecared.

 

[XLIX]

It's the state that matters the most

Seems to me the Giants and Jets do quite well across state lines in New Jersey. The Chiefs are another team seriously considering a move across state lines.

if the Pats had moved to Hartford, which is an easy drive from central/western MA, they would have lost tons of fans.

Not remotely the same. The population center of the Patriots market is Boston. Moving to Hartford would have added 90 minutes of driving for the vast, vast majority of fans.

The population center of the Bears is Chicago. Roughly half the fandom would benefit from a move to Hammond, and those that don’t benefit are only going to see an extra 25 minutes or so added to their ride.

The Whalers were hardly mentioned on Boston media - no on ecared.

Gee you think maybe that’s because Boston has its own hockey team?

 

[mgteich]

It's the state that matters the most - if the Pats had moved to Hartford, which is an easy drive from central/western MA, they would have lost tons of fans.

The Whalers were hardly mentioned on Boston media - no on ecared.

???
The two are not comparable at all.

Boston is 100 miles and 1hr and 38 minutes to Hartford, more in Game Day traffic, and hours by train.
Boston is 29 miles and 37 minutes from Foxboro, more in Game Day traffic, and 39 minutes by train.
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As an aside, many of fans of the Hartford Patriots would have come from the suburbs of New York City. There would have been a new set of fans.

 

[fourhour]

How Boston Lost The Patriots And 'New England' Grabbed the NFL's 'Gold Standard'

In March of 1971, there was no Twitter. There was no 24-hour sports radio in Boston. No ESPN. It was in the newspaper, 43 years ago this week, that area…

www.wgbh.org

Funny that story mentions the opening of Gillette Stadium in 2002... What was the name (sponsor) when it opened? CG....

Also, a google of Gillette which didn't provide the original name also mentioned the major Boston sports franchises are the only venues that are privately owned and operated.

 

[XLIX]

Funny that story mentions the opening of Gillette Stadium in 2002... What was the name (sponsor) when it opened? CG....

CMGI, but they went bankrupt and Gillette took over naming rights before the stadium opened.

I don't know what CMGI really stood for but the running joke was it stood for "Caucasian Men Getting Intoxicated"

 

[1960Pats]

It's the state that matters the most - if the Pats had moved to Hartford, which is an easy drive from central/western MA, they would have lost tons of fans.

The Whalers were hardly mentioned on Boston media - no on ecared.

The three of four STHs that I talked to back at the time (they lived north of Boston) had no problem going to Hartford.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Funny that story mentions the opening of Gillette Stadium in 2002... What was the name (sponsor) when it opened? CG....

Also, a google of Gillette which didn't provide the original name also mentioned the major Boston sports franchises are the only venues that are privately owned and operated.

CMGI and if I recall correctly you can find manhole covers around the stadium that have CMGI on them. I guess Gillette didn't care enough to spend money on replacing the manhole covers when they took over the naming rights.

 

[TommyD4207]

CMGI and if I recall correctly you can find manhole covers around the stadium that have CMGI on them. I guess Gillette didn't care enough to spend money on replacing the manhole covers when they took over the naming rights.

Bologna isn't cheap, ya know.