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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Are the Bears moving to Indiana or is a bidding war developing?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how the Bears are trying to get a stadium bidding war going between the state of Indiana and the state of Illinois. Will they be successful?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's true is that I'm more and more excited about the prospect that the Bears might actually get to the Super Bowl again.

0:06.0

And so we're going to crush the Rams this weekend, which I'm looking forward to.

0:11.0

Bears always beat Rams.

0:13.0

And not always in football, but in every other way.

0:17.0

And so we're going to do it this weekend in football, and I'm excited about that.

0:20.0

But the prospects, look, I've always said that building a stadium is, from my perspective, about doing what's best for the taxpayers.

0:28.5

This is a private business.

0:30.8

We help private businesses all the time in the state.

0:33.9

And I want to help if it's with infrastructure, as we do with other private businesses.

0:38.8

That's absolutely a way we could do that.

0:41.0

But as I've said, and the Bears have heard this, that we're not going to build a stadium for the Chicago Bears.

0:49.4

It's Governor J.B. Pritzker talking about what he will and won't do for the Bears as far as a new stadium goes.

0:56.9

There does seem to be some willingness on the Indiana side to at least broach that subject,

1:02.2

although 40-year lease might be the best way to describe what it is that they would build.

1:08.2

It's a Speedo and Home Show, by the way.

1:09.9

Welcome. We appreciate you.

1:10.9

Thank you so much for those of you that did make the switch over to 104-3, that if it makes sense for you as a listener because you're downtown or you're in a garage or you're in your office, great. It sounds a lot better. For those of you who are listening on 670 to score, you can continue to do that. We appreciate you and love you too.

1:27.9

So Speigs, I'm going to be that. We appreciate you and love you too. So,

1:28.4

Speegs, I'm going to be on with Taman Bradley tonight on Channel 9, and he asked, I love chopping

1:34.5

it up with Taman because he's a political maven. Like, he actually covers politics. And he was

1:39.7

like, would you like to talk about sports and politics? I was like, yes, I very much would. And

1:44.1

it's nice I kind of get to go back home

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