Ask anyone without a 606 zip code what the slowest-moving creature in the world is, and they\u2019ll pepper you with answers culled from every corner of the animal kingdom. Ask a Chicagoan, and they\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s an emotionally unhinged driver attempting to exit Soldier Field. Now, there\u2019s a morsel of data to vindicate us traffic-weary Chicagoans.<\/p>\n
According to a recent study<\/a> conducted by sports predictions specialists at Pickswise, Soldier Field<\/a> is officially host to the worst game day traffic in the NFL. Analyzing the congestion levels around NFL stadiums every Sunday at 4pm\u2014along with rush hour travel time and pollution\u2014the study assigned every venue\u2019s traffic patterns a score between zero and 100. Soldier Field received an abysmal 20.3, with congestion around the stadium jumping up 42 percent on game day\u2014nearly double the NFL average. According to Pickwise\u2019s rankings, the second-worst NFL stadium to travel to this season is MetLife Stadium near New York City, followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 Acrisure Stadium, Seattle\u2019s Lumen Field and Los Angeles\u2019 SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n Now,\u00a0how much stock can we put in a study that\u00a0scrutinized a mere snapshot of Chicago\u2019s infamous traffic follies<\/a>? As someone whose knowledge of football begins and ends with\u00a0\u201cBill Swerski\u2019s Superfans<\/a>,\u201d I am far from an authority on such matters. I will, however, say this much: Wading through the post-Oasis foot traffic pouring from Soldier Field a few weeks ago was its own special\u2014and slothful\u2014kind of torture. In the time it took to walk from the arena\u2019s exit to the Museum Campus bus corral, I could have listened to\u00a0Definitely Maybe\u00a0front-to-back\u2014and by then, the air was leaden with the sound of blaring car horns, the horizon littered with unmoving taillights.\u00a0<\/p>\n As the Bears prepare to move into their new digs in Arlington Heights, one can\u2019t help but wonder: Will the traffic improve in tandem with their record? Chicagoans can\u2019t help but dare to dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ask anyone without a 606 zip code what the slowest-moving creature in the world is, and they\u2019ll pepper…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[36241,960,5386,1818,36242,36240],"class_list":{"0":"post-222783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-categories-sports-and-fitness","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news-sports-fitness","13":"tag-sports-and-fitness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115195388008988131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}