Hop to It

What George McCaskey lacks in football savvy he make up for in gall. Speaking to the Tribune’s Colleen Kane on Friday, McCaskey gave an update on the search for a new stadium, to be built largely with funds not coming from the McCaskey family. “We want to go where the best deal is possible, where it’s most feasible—financially, politically, geographically.” I’m tempted to point out a good place for the heirs of Halas to go, but manners prevent me from being so blunt. At the same time McCaskey was trying to shake the money tree, henchman Kevin Warren was pushing for the General Assembly to get cracking so the Bears could start a-buildin’ next year. Yeah, hop to it. But McCaskey and Warren might want to tell NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to shut up. One of the selling points for a new stadium is that it will allow the Bears to get a Super Bowl. But then Goodell said the other day he could seed the Super Bowl being played outside the U.S. If that were to happen, wouldn’t that lessen the odds for Chicago getting one, let alone two, for its publicly subsidized plaything?