Bernstein & Holmes are wary of lakefront stadium proposal: 'There’s almost no reason the public should do the bidding for Kevin Warren and the Bears'

(670 The Score) Score midday hosts Dan Bernstein and Laurence Holmes are quite wary of the plan that the city of Chicago and the Bears unveiled Wednesday for a new stadium along the lakefront.

The project – which would cost nearly $4.7 billion, according to the Sun-Times – will backfire in their minds and burden local taxpayers with an unnecessary bill. Taxpayers will be on the hook for about half of that $4.7 billion cost, the Tribune reported.

“I’m just seething about this whole thing, I’m seething about it,” Bernstein said. “And they’re going to get idiots – ‘Oh, look at the renderings, this is going to be awesome, yay football, yay football!’ This is real money, these are real people. We’re talking about our lakefront, and they want to plop another giant concrete blob down there to do what?”

Pointing out that the other option for the Bears is to build in suburban Arlington Heights, Holmes remained perplexed why Illinois taxpayers would need to fund the stadium project. There’s no risk of the team leaving the state.

“All of this money is still going to be in the state of Illinois,” Holmes said. “There’s almost no reason the public should do the bidding – and I mean both that figuratively and literally – for Kevin Warren and the Bears. They’re not going anywhere. We don’t have to play Chicago vs. Arlington Heights vs. Naperville. They missed their opportunity to do that, and they’re trying to do it backward now.”

Bernstein and Holmes also criticized Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson for going back on a campaign promise to avoid publicly subsidizing sports stadiums.

“He said it,” Bernstein said. “And Now he’s cheerleading? He’s jumping up and down cheerleading? He ran on the opposite of this. I feel incredibly let down by the wind-socking that he’s done to prop up his teetering regime. He’s done a terrible job. He ran on the opposite of this.”