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To the victor in the Bears’ stadium race go the spoiled

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Chicago lost out on the future of the Bears the day then-Mayor Richard M. Daley agreed to drop a gigantic toilet-bowl seat on dumpy, old Soldier Field and call it a renovation.

I was wondering when it would get to this. Because it always does.

You know, the shoulder-shrugging, second-guessing, third-guessing, maybe-I’ll-take-my-ball-and-go-home posturing by the powerful rich kid who’s asking the neighborhood for a ‘‘favor.’’

In this case, the rich kid is the Bears.

And the favor Illinois’ only NFL team is asking for is, well, all kinds of stuff for its proposed new stadium in Arlington Heights.