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Monday, January 08, 2007

Lies. Damn Lies

From this idiotic piece in ESPN today about Chicago and San Diego:

"Stadium information: Soldier Field is located three miles south of downtown Chicago at 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive. Best bet: hail a cab; rapid transit is not convenient."

While misleading (Soldier Field has to be one of the most accessible stadiums to mass transit in the entire NFL. If not THE most accessible), this is also just NOT TRUE. It's .65 miles from the Red Line and less than 1.5 miles from the center of the loop. 3 miles gets you all the way to Rush Street and the Viagra Triangle, which I guess is the new measure of "downtown." Take that, Michael Conzen.

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