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Kevin Warren wants to bring the Olympics to Chicago and says the new $4.7 billion stadium will be a fixed dome because a retractable one would cost a couple hundred million more and he wants to be "fiscally responsible." In other news i smell toast burning fjshfbfzjskzhbr

From me on Monday afternoon: The nonsense state agency that was created to give Jerry Reinsdorf a free ballpark and later financed the Soldier Field renovations, both of which are still not paid off, is called the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Not the Chicago Sports Facilities Authority. It was created by the state legislature and governor. Unless Brand-o can magically make the money appear on his own, and he can't because he's the most impotent Chicago mayor since Eugene Sawyer, he needs the state support. And the governor, the state Senate leader, and the state House leader have all been pretty explicit "no"s on these public funding schemes floated by the Bears and White Sox. I'm sure the TV news will show some lovely renderings though. EDIT: Oh, buddy.

In this case it's also on the pants, so we're officially at a 1995 Carolina Panthers level of redundancy.

Wait until I tell you where the Utah Grizzlies came from.

If you go "Black Diamonds" and work off Smith's color scheme remarks, there's something to be made of purple, sky blue, black, and sparkle silver. Maybe you could ape the '90s Jazz a little and make the hem striping evoke a mountain range and... Crap, I just realized I'm making the Colorado Avalanche on a bad monitor.

Sweet Lordy Jesus on a flaky biscuit, what is that. Pants stripes aren't meant to be on the inner thighs, gang. Also, what are your team's colors besides "yes?"

Ah, so the arena plans will get up and running properly once he brings on Jerry Falwell Jr. as an investor.

The Chicago Tribune has some details. After the White Sox said they needed $2 billion in public funding to build their ballpark and got a rather frosty reception to the idea, the Bears realized they'd need to temper their request a bit to make it palatable and -- ahhhh, I'm just yankin' your chain, they want $2.3 billion in public money.for whatever $4.6 billion piece of garbage they want to plunk on the lakefront. From the Tribune article, I give you the hero America needs, sports economist J.C. Bradbury:

The white stripe makes it look like a curving road. I like it in theory, but it doesn't work for me in practice.

Sure would like to know where everyone is going to park, then. Maybe you can utilize McCormick Place and the giant underground garages at Grant and Millennium, but those are already used to an extent for Bears games and I don't know how much more capacity they have.

That's a funny and apt year to pick, because 2002 was when the NFL went from having a whole bunch of different companies on field to giving the exclusive rights leaguewide to Reebok.

Prison. No arrest, no trial, just straight to prison.

Northwestern just bulldozed Ryan Field in Evanston, which had some sort of "only college athletics here" clause in the donations that funded it, which is why the Bears couldn't play there. I imagine their new $800MM venue they want to cram full of events will not have such a clause.

And that is exactly how you make something which appeals to no one.

I know the popular line is that the city is just going to hand the Chicago Teachers Union whatever they want because Johnson is their guy, but between his base level incompetence and Stacy Davis Gates' incredible ability to erode support for teachers every time she talks, I believe they can make one of the uglier strikes CPS has seen.

I had forgotten the Jaguars briefly had striped black pants before going all leotard. If the '98 throwbacks got made permanent, I wouldn't be averse.

Jacksonville also took a layer off their shoulder numbers when they wore the two-tone helmet contrivance uniforms. It was very much a 2010s Nike trend attempt that they're resuscitating because they're short on ideas. Also, I know it's just for a mannequin, but the sleeve patch on that Falcons jersey is holding on for dear life. Sew something on like you care, Christ.

Exactly what I thought upon seeing it. And in navy, it looks so much like Virginia. I can't put my finger on it, but there is something about these uniforms that just looks so mid-tier collegiate.

Add a white helmet for the Jaguars, according to the mothership. Duval loves to keep it icy, because that's still the slang term they use for crystal meth.

So the mothership reports that the Vikings are also adding white helmets, to go with new leaked white alternate jerseys, which have LITERAL ICICLES HANGING OFF THE NUMERALS BECAUSE OMG THEY'RE SO ICY AND CLEAN. I cannot wait for this trend to White Star Line itself straight into the briny ing deep.

A meeting with "city officials and stakeholders" means no county or state ones want anything to do with this still. And if Brandon Johnson is out there dumb enough to throw billions at the Bears to fix their last mistake and replace it with a new and more expensive one - and he certainly is! - those rumblings about enacting a mayoral recall will get a lot louder.

Oh, this advice never works out for anyone.

I've seen this enough from you in this thread to offer you some advice: "Should have."

I said earlier that the pants and helmet would make or break the Broncos look. Well, they didn't help. Nothing about this new look really improves on what it's replacing, it's just new and somewhat different. Take out the 5280s and the Broncos wordmark, and you're looking at the new University of Virginia uniform from Nike's "eh, whatever" level of design. Also, boy do those mountain features on the sleeves get uncomfortably close to looking like lightning bolts. The throwback is acceptable. Not the greatest of uniforms or logos, but it brings Bronco fans back to the days of a guy wearing a barrel and the team getting its teeth kicked in at the Super Bowl every few years, so they'll dig it. Five years from now they'll replace them with throwbacks from when the franchise actually won Super Bowls, and we'll spin around again.

Dov Kleiman is an aggregator, not a source, and potentially not a person. Take it with a salt lick.