{"id":2614,"date":"2026-06-11T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:59:13","slug":"espn-chicago-bears-brian-urlacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/espn-chicago-bears-brian-urlacher\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN invites Chicago Bears legend to give his real thoughts on move to Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN and other sports media outlets have been covering the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Bears<\/a> and their controversial stadium decision for over a week now. Recently, the Bears organization announced that they are moving forward with plans to build a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana. This new site is about 20 miles away from where Soldier Field is currently located.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was made because the Illinois legislature did not pass any laws that would have given the Bears tax breaks for building their new stadium within Chicago or Arlington Heights. There still is a chance that this could happen in the coming weeks, but as of right now it appears as if the Bears are going to be leaving the city which they have called home for over 100 years.<\/p>\n<h2>Brian Urlacher goes on ESPN to explain the real problem with the Chicago Bears moving<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2026\/06\/2018-09-18T020738Z_1036119706_NOCID_RTRMADP_3_NFL-SEATTLE-SEAHAWKS-AT-CHICAGO-BEARS.webp\" alt=\"ESPN, Chicago Bears, Brian Urlacher\" width=\"2140\" height=\"3209\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2026\/06\/2018-09-18T020738Z_1036119706_NOCID_RTRMADP_3_NFL-SEATTLE-SEAHAWKS-AT-CHICAGO-BEARS.webp 2140w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2026\/06\/2018-09-18T020738Z_1036119706_NOCID_RTRMADP_3_NFL-SEATTLE-SEAHAWKS-AT-CHICAGO-BEARS-768x1152.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2140px) 100vw, 2140px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bears moved to Chicago from Decatur, Illinois in 1922 and have been there ever since. In the 100+ years that they have called the Windy City home, there have been iconic football moments with the weather and elements playing huge roles in forming the mystique that surrounds the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>And Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, who played in Chicago from 2000-2012, thinks all of that will go away:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Urlacher on This Is Football had the best Chicago Bears stadium take I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not like the Bears playing anywhere but Soldier Field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? The Bears belong OUTDOORS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like them playing in a dome anywhere&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An ELECTRIC episode drops this week. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TMxbviz9B3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TMxbviz9B3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bykevinclark\/status\/2064778959695351847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n\u201cI do not like the Bears playing anywhere but Soldier Field. Even when they were going to Arlington Heights, which is in Illinois, they were going to be in a dome. And if they go to Indiana, they\u2019ll be in a dome. I don\u2019t like the idea of them playing in a dome anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand, financially, it makes a ton of sense. They don\u2019t own Soldier Field, so Sunday\u2019s are not very profitable for them. If these were the Cowboys, Jerry Jones owns that stadium. He\u2019s doing pretty well on Sunday\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bears don\u2019t own their stadium, and the state of Illinois is not giving them as good of a deal as maybe they should. Indiana is willing to offer them more. I don\u2019t like it, but I get it. It\u2019s only 25 minutes from downtown, so what\u2019s the big deal? Besides playing in a dome, which I don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As one can see, Urlacher does not necessarily seeing the Bears leaving Chicago as a big deal because they will be so close to downtown anyway.<\/p>\n<p>However, what he does bemoan is the fact that they will likely be playing in a dome soon, which means all those weather aspects that made Chicago an iconic football organization will no longer be a part of the game.<\/p>\n<h2>More <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/\" target=\"_self\">sports media news<\/a> from Last Word on Sports<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"c78749ece7fd074ea5dc1889e7c53f0f\" image-id=\"esmePx5B6rCK\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 5315px; aspect-ratio: 5315\/3543;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/mlb-network-munetaka-murakami-white-sox\/\" target=\"_self\">MLB Network analyst reveals how Munetaka Murakami turned the White Sox around<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/espn-nfl-chicago-bears-stadium\/\" target=\"_self\">ESPN NFL insider reveals true reality of new Chicago Bears stadium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/new-heights-bears-caleb-williams\/\" target=\"_self\">Caleb Williams goes on New Heights podcast to discuss Madden cover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN and other sports media outlets have been covering the Chicago Bears and their controversial stadium decision for over a week now. Recently, the Bears organization announced that they are moving forward with plans to build a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana. This new site is about 20 miles away from where Soldier Field is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5799,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[238,267,264,266,15],"tags":[72,144],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-media","category-espn","category-news","category-networks","category-podcasts","tag-espn","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Robin Adams","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}