{"id":725187,"date":"2026-06-09T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725187\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:10:09","slug":"the-colts-chances-of-having-nfl-company-in-indiana-are-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725187\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colts\u2019 chances of having NFL company in Indiana are growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas are all proud owners of multiple NFL franchises. Those make sense. A quick and easy way to determine size is to glance at an electoral map. As some of the biggest Election Day prizes, it makes sense they might garner two or more NFL franchises, but when Indiana looks at that, the state says, \u201chold my beer\u201d. The Chicago Bears are on the verge of an Indiana move, and the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> might have a \u201cstatemate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Opinions on this topic vary wildly. Of course, many Bears fans can\u2019t imagine the team moving out of Chicago, let alone the state, but it is looking more and more likely. The Chicago Bears Board of Directors voted last week to advance their stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, so things are certainly gaining momentum.<\/p>\n

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Politics, economic impact, and opinions of whether this is a good or bad idea aside, this is a crazy move to even think about. Indiana, yes, Indiana would be home to two NFL franchises. Now, don\u2019t expect the name to change to the Hammond Bears anytime soon. Maybe this ends up more like \u201cthe New York Jets<\/a> and Giants really play in New Jersey\u201d type of thing, but it\u2019s still wild. The funniest thing that comes to mind is thinking about a late Sunday afternoon pregame intro in which the game announcers talk about the huge matchup between the Green Bay Packers<\/a> and Chicago Bears while showing the skyline of Hammond. Would they really?<\/p>\n

All of this is to say that this isn\u2019t a done deal. Things are leaning towards yes in a major way, but nothing is set in stone. If you have followed any part of this saga you know how back and forth and wishy-washy it has been. The Colts do seem to be on the inside track to having a partner in the state of Indiana, though. The Chicago Bears are on the verge of a Hammond, Indiana move. That could make Indiana one of the great football states in the country. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas are all proud owners of multiple NFL franchises. Those make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1248,258180,12268,1246,276695,1250,1235,593,85,109265],"class_list":["post-725187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-bears","tag-hammond","tag-indiana","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-kiyoshi-mio-imagn","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-the-green-bay-packers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}