told Kevin Clark on This Is Football<\/a> that Soldier Field, where Urlacher played his home games as a Bears Hall of Fame linebacker, is the ideal spot for the team.<\/p>\n\u201cI do not like the Bears playing anywhere but Soldier Field,\u201d Urlacher said. \u201cEven if they went to Arlington Heights, which is in Illinois, they\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Urlacher said the Bears will be losing the home field advantage that comes from playing outdoors in Chicago winters, where the home team is accustomed to the elements and the road team is not.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the only advantage the Bears have,\u201d Urlacher said. \u201cYou go to Soldier Field in November, December? It\u2019s gonna suck. The weather is not gonna be good. You\u2019re not gonna like it. And playing there, you practice in it, you get used to it, there\u2019s some advantage to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Urlacher said he thinks the state of Indiana has incentivized the Bears to move, and so they\u2019ll move for financial reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand financially it makes a ton of sense for them to go to Indiana. They don\u2019t own Soldier Field, so Sundays are not very profitable for them,\u201d Urlacher said. \u201cIndiana is willing to offer more. I don\u2019t like it, but business wise it makes a ton of sense for them to go to Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n
It makes sense from a business perspective. Not from a football perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Bears continue to weigh their options between building a dome in Illinois and building a dome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-711359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}