Sodboy13

I thought you left.

EDIT: I should say that I don't own any counterfeit jerseys. I do own several, legit replica NHL jerseys, but those were purchased at steep discount. I won't support the price gouging of the major professional sports leagues by paying full price.

Amen, good sir. It's the old shoppers' mantra: never pay retail. When something's as overpriced as NHL jerseys are these days, and when there's as many internet jersey retail outlets as there are, there's plenty of good reason to wait for the off-season sales.

Oh, and between the Blackhawks and Bears, Chicago has to be this country's foremost purchaser of horrendously inaccurate counterfeit jerseys. God, there's just so much crap out there, and none of it's worth the $40-$80 these people paid for it.

Because Da Bears have gotta play in Soljuhrs Field, cuz dat's da tradition. (Tradition meaning "from Coach Ditka onward".) The Soldier Field revamp has been a fiasco from about 15 years before its start (The Bears are moving to Hoffman Estates! The Bears are moving to Gary! The Bears are moving to Thornton Quarry!) to the present day. Given the renovations at Memorial Stadium, part of me thinks they might have been better off staying in Champaign.

If you've actually been inside Soldier Field its not a piece of crap at all. At least it feels like a football stadium instead of a Mall (like Lucas Oil)

Having been inside Soldier Field, I beg to differ. The plebian seats on the west side of the stadium are absurdly steep, and the concourse has all the charm and coziness of the Metrodome. But hey, it's got toilets, so, upgrade, I guess.

Never mind that the exterior is an architectural embarrassment unfit for any sort of national television showcase, and that they still can't figure out how to grow grass there, but can't install FieldTurf, because that would enrage the obese lunkheads.

Except that the BCS is about to die, and get replaced by a Big 10/Pac-10/SEC/ACC(?) playoff.

Nebraska is going to the Big Ten in 2011, not 2012. Jim Delaney just whipped it out for all the world to see.

Y'know, Notre Dame and the MAC could be mutually beneficial at this point.

Big Ten, Little Two (or Four or Six)

That sounds like a show on TLC.

Plus a Big Ten Championship game from Soldier Field would be awesome.

Too small, too outdoors. That thing is locked in Indy, with perhaps an occasional token gesture in Detroit.

Outside of geography, there is no sense behind Notre Dame joining the Big Ten. The Big Ten needs Notre Dame; Notre Dame does not need the Big Ten. I'd put Syracuse down as a frontrunner here; three of their nonconference games this past season were against Big Ten teams. Clearly, there's an attempt to breed some familiarity.