Smelling a mutiny, Snyder reconsidered, made Robiskie the head coach and made Rodgers his vice president of football operations. This is further proof you can be rich and still be stupid. They're basically going to tear the place down to the shell and build it back up. The city and state of Illinois will fork over the rest, using revenue from a 2 percent hotel tax. The Bears are selling permanent seat licenses for 30,000 of the 63,000 seats in the renovated stadium.
Construction is scheduled to start immediately after next season.
The Bears will play elsewhere in 2002, probably at the University of Illinois in Champaign, which is a three-hour drive from Chicago. The Packers hope to get running back Dorsey Levens to restructure his hefty contract in the offseason. If he doesn't agree to a restructuring, the cap-strapped Packers probably would have to release him. The Packers have been disappointed in the production of wide receiver Antonio Freeman. I don't know what the deal is.