The Chicago Bears’ Mixed Messages: Deception or Incompetence?
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bernstein breaks down the timeline surrounding the Bears’ stadium saga—focusing on the collapse of the Illinois PILOT megaproject deal and the team’s public statements along the way. He revisits a key question: have the Bears been misleading, intentionally or not?
0:00 Bears
27:00 Cubs
35:00 NBA
47:00 Topgolf - Naperville
Time and again, the organization has insisted the decision is down to just two sites—Arlington Heights and Hammond, Indiana. But Chicago’s mayor continues to openly push the lakefront as a legitimate contender, offering a very different narrative.
So what’s really going on? Are the Bears being deceptive, or is this simply dysfunction and mixed messaging? Who’s telling the truth—and why does it matter?
Plus, the Cubs’ latest loss felt all too familiar offensively—but somehow different. The NBA Finals tip off tonight, and we highlight a feel-good story out of Naperville involving Topgolf.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Bernstein unfiltered, unfiltered on 312 sports. |
| 0:09.0 | DBU on 312, brought to you in partnership with my bookie. |
| 0:15.0 | Wow, it's for a wild couple of days here. |
| 0:17.0 | And it's been just an absolute blast. |
| 0:19.0 | So thanks for all the correspondence that has been |
| 0:22.5 | coming in here. I'm doing my best to keep up with everything. And for the gazillion emails and |
| 0:32.5 | all of it on the Bears stuff, first of all, thank you for listening. And thanks for being a part of |
| 0:37.3 | everything that we're trying to do here, trying to cut through a listening and thanks for being a part of everything that we're |
| 0:38.2 | trying to do here, trying to cut through a lot of, there's a lot of BS out there. And there's |
| 0:42.4 | going to be more BS out there today because what is happening now, what this is turning into |
| 0:46.6 | the entire Bears failure circus, the bears have disappeared. They've pulled into their turtle |
| 0:52.2 | shell and they're going to try to pretend everything is fine |
| 0:54.2 | until they at some point have to come out and face questions. |
| 0:57.9 | I mean, Kevin Warren should be front and center. |
| 1:00.3 | Why did this fail? |
| 1:01.6 | What happened? |
| 1:02.7 | And he should be explaining why this crashed and burned and why what was building toward one of the most important and impactful moments in the in the history |
| 1:13.2 | of the business of the bears franchise was bungled and ruined and set back delayed and is now |
| 1:22.4 | with every day that goes by wish we had a telethon scoreboard here. The old Jerry Lewis muscular |
| 1:28.6 | dystrophy telethon scoreboard with a giant numbers up there just showing you what the cost is |
| 1:35.0 | of this project with every day that goes by in delay with everything. The absolute cost, |
| 1:43.8 | some of the estimates I read, I think I said sort of flippantly |
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