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Originally Posted by Bonsai Tree
There is no "regular rotation" of super bowls. The super bowl usually just goes to the city with the newest stadium. We'd get it for 1 year, and then it would move to another city the next year. Chicago would never get another Superbowl in that stadium. It's a complete idiot waste to build a stadium to attract the Superbowl. Seriously, look back at the last 10 Superbowls. Is there a "rotation" there? I agree with you on everything else but I hope the city doesn't fall for the "we need a Superbowl" fallacy ever again.
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The "we need a Superbowl" is not the argument that should have been made two decades ago before the Soldier Field renovation began. An enclosed roof stadium would have been far more financially beneficial to the team and the city. If Soldier had been rebuilt enclosed, they'd have maybe up to 10 more major concerts a year. The Big Ten Championship would be played there every year, not Indianapolis. They would host a SB maybe every 10 years, but they would also host periodic Final Fours (Minneapolis gladly receives those) or a NCAAF Championship. Also more sparsely attended events like motocross or monster truck rallies. And now the Fire are back in current SF, too. There would be an annual CFB bowl game in Chicago as well as regular neutral site regular season games. This would be conservatively an additional 15 additional major events a year. Missing out on maybe 1 SB megaevent isn't the problem.
This isn't an argument for the Bears to relocate to AH or another 9-figure renovation, but the lack of foresight put the Bears and city in a far worse position. The renovations also limited capacity due to construction constraints so Chicago, the largest NFL market with one team, has the smallest stadium by capacity in the NFL. Traffic ingress/egress is a mess and the public transit situation is embarrassing for a huge stadium that close to the heart of one of the biggest cities in the US.