Bears legend Brian Urlacher talks team's likely move, USC son's college career

Brian Urlacher is calling his erstwhile team's bluff.

The Chicago Bears person gone connected grounds to accidental they are moving from the Windy City to Hammond, Indiana, announcing successful June that they were "advanc[ing]" their stadium task successful the city.

But Urlacher is inactive holding onto anticipation successful astatine slightest staying successful the authorities of Illinois.

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Brian Urlacher, a erstwhile Chicago Bears player, is honored during halftime of a crippled betwixt the Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago, Illinois, connected Sept. 17, 2018. (Patrick Gorski/USA TODAY Sports)

"I deliberation that was inactive a ploy to effort to get the authorities of Illinois to bash thing much than what they’ve done, which is nothing," Urlacher said to Fox News Digital recently. "The Bears bought the onshore successful Arlington Heights. They person that there, acceptable to go. They conscionable request a small spot of backing from the authorities to physique the stadium.

"I conscionable cannot spot the Bears leaving Illinois. It drives maine crazy. And I don’t privation them leaving Soldier Field, honestly. I privation they could enactment thing retired to support them there, but they privation a dome, they privation Super Bowls, they privation Final Fours. They privation each that large stuff. I get it. I conscionable hatred the information that they’re leaving Soldier Field. That spot is iconic."

"I recognize Indiana is offering them immoderate large deals tax-wise — $2.5 cardinal to physique the stadium. That’s a large deal. As a businessperson, which the owners person to beryllium these days, it makes consciousness to go. Unless Illinois comes done with something, I don’t spot them staying there," helium added.

Perhaps Urlacher's son, Kennedy, tin beryllium a Hammond fable – helium is presently a information astatine USC aft playing his freshman play with Notre Dame. He played successful the nationalist title with the Fighting Irish, but it was clip to determination on.

"NIL has been large for him," Urlacher admitted. But the Urlachers besides knew Kennedy would beryllium a starter with the Trojans.

Perhaps the past sanction helped Kennedy get immoderate much money, but Dad said Kennedy wants to gain everything connected his own.

Kennedy Urlacher of the Southern California Trojans looks up astatine the assemblage during a crippled betwixt UCLA and USC astatine Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum connected Nov. 29, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Melinda Meijer/ISI Photos via Getty Images)

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"I’ll archer you what helium does: He busts his a--. I don’t attraction what his sanction is. His sanction could beryllium Johnson. It doesn’t matter. This dude plays hard. He works his process off, man. Every clip I telephone him, he’s moving out, he’s doing something. He doesn’t privation thing fixed to him due to the fact that of his past name. That’s not wherefore helium wants to beryllium wherever he’s at. He wants to beryllium determination due to the fact that helium earned it, due to the fact that helium busted his a-- and helium got there..." Urlacher said.

"He wants thing due to the fact that of his past name. He wants it due to the fact that helium earned it."

Urlacher said, contempt not liking what NIL has done to assemblage sports, that helium evidently wishes helium played successful the era. "As agelong arsenic the NCAA doesn’t get the money, I similar it," helium said of athletes getting paid.

But the Hall of Famer is making up for mislaid clip by investing successful Joey nicotine pouches.

Joey has 36 antithetic flavors, and Urlacher knows that the "pouch abstraction arsenic blown up."

"Everyone I play play with, everyone I’m around, they’re ever switching retired these pouch things. I had a accidental to invest, and it was a no-brainer for me," helium said. They sent maine the deck, and I was like, 'This seems similar a location run.'

Linebacker Brian Urlacher No. 54 of the Chicago Bears lines up against the Miami Dolphins astatine Sun Life Stadium connected Nov. 18, 2011, successful Miami, Florida. The Bears defeated the Dolphins 16-0. (Getty Images)

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"It’s decidedly safer than smoking oregon doing the vape stuff, due to the fact that they don’t cognize the semipermanent effects of vaping," helium said, expressing his idiosyncratic opinion. "But the happening that’s brainsick is however accelerated it’s caught on. Everyone does them. My girl brings her friends over, and each 3 of them instrumentality them. I’m like, 'Whoa, she does them, too.' You can’t tell. They’re successful their mouths. I’m like, 'Damn, everyone’s doing these — girls, guys.' The younger generations are truly large connected them. But I deliberation I announcement it the astir erstwhile I play play and each feline successful my radical is changing 1 each 3 holes. I’m like, 'Damn, these are a large deal.'"

Although the FDA has authorized nicotine pouch products for merchantability successful the U.S., health experts warn against the effects they tin have, peculiarly connected younger people. A caller nationwide survey published successful the American Journal of Ophthalmology besides suggested that smokeless alternatives could summation the hazard of superior oculus diseases compared to quitting nicotine altogether.

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