The Chicago Bears announced their sole focus is a world-class stadium in Hammond, Indiana, and they have gutsily treated that news like a two-minute drill against destiny while filing the National Football League under light stretching.
How the move will affect the name, they revealed, is a sudden-death overtime of zoning hearings so clutch the kicking unit has been restationed as a human chain of clipboard holders. Actual Sundays are now a suggestion. A stadium-campaign veteran who would give only the rank of Field General of Rebar put the campaign in the only terms that still count.
We came here to occupy soil, not to discuss touchdowns. You win Hammond or you go home and toss a ball around like civilians.
Box scores will be poured in wet concrete and left to set. The only turnover that matters now is a truck.
