New Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren has an urgent mission to reprogram parts of the organization. danwiederer went inside Halas Hall to learn more about the veteran executive's approach.
, they handed out three pages of testimonials that included praise from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Michigan women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes and Selwyn Vickers, president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Poles’ research into improving the dining experience for his players at Halas Hall? Through Warren’s connection, he was quickly on a Zoom with David Fhima, a well-known restaurateur in Minneapolis who doubles as executive chef for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx.Bears general manager Ryan Poles greets new team President and CEO Kevin Warren on Jan. 17, 2023, at Halas Hall.
That stretch starts with a trip across two time zones to play the Los Angeles Chargers on a Sunday night with a redeye return. The Bears turn around the next week with another road trip to New Orleans, then promptly steer toward a Thursday night home game against the Carolina Panthers.
Warren, 59, is almost 22 years Poles’ senior with 27 seasons of NFL experience, first as a player agent and later in varying roles with the St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings. His library of experiences is helping guide a second-year GM still broadening his horizons. “I’m interested in hearing about that journey,” Poles said, “and some of the challenges they had along the way. There’s a tremendous amount of information that I can use in my job.”Bears President Kevin Warren begins his day with a few minutes of reading and quiet contemplation in his office at Halas Hall.
He also was grateful after the draft when Warren noticed his fatigue — “I was foggy. I was drained,” Poles said — and rejected his plan to power through to mid-June. Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs celebrates his touchdown on the final play of a 29-24 playoff victory over the Saints on Jan. 14, 2018, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
“I always view stadiums and the environment as more than just a building and a structure,” Warren said. “It becomes a platform for people to come together. It really has its own life and energy. And it becomes a building that can actually help reverberate the energy that’s inside.
The team researched the pros and cons of the translucent, weather-resistant roof it was considering. It did in-depth sun studies to identify the precise angle on which to build the stadium in order to synchronize with the Minnesota solar patterns to create the ideal ambience, with optimal natural light pouring through the large glass wall and doors beyond the west end zone.
In 2016 the Vikings still were practicing at their Winter Park headquarters in a dated facility 16 miles from downtown. So the team implemented extra touches inside the stadium such as whirlpools and other recovery amenities.Warren kept his eyes open whenever the Vikings traveled to another NFL stadium and encouraged others to do the same. He kept his curiosity humming if he attended an NBA game. He would share with staffers ideas that caught his eye in an airport.
Still, there are major taxation challenges and unanswered funding questions plus a difficult political obstacle course to weave through — not to mention a variety of pitches flowing in from municipalities such as Naperville, Waukegan, Rockford and Aurora.“It’s that process of being methodical and transparent with our communication and finding what’s out there,” he said. “I owe that to the Chicago Bears, the McCaskey family, our fans, our players, everyone involved.
“Sometimes progress is really slowing down and becoming very thoughtful during some truly critical decisions. A lot of times people view progress as, oh, you’re moving, moving, moving, moving. No. Sometimes it’s just the opposite.”Warren’s 40-month run as Big Ten commissioner was both landmark and turbulent. As the first African American head of a Power Five conference, he steered conference expansion and negotiated a record-setting media rights deal worth north of $7.5 billion.
The windfall from that deal — which extends beyond football — will bring more than $1 billion per year to the Big Ten and its member institutions.[Don't miss] Kevin Warren is the 1st African-American commissioner of a Power 5 conference: ‘It is definitely not lost on me’Warren also was sharply criticized during the summer of 2020 by critics who felt he mismanaged the COVID-19 crisis during a time of great uncertainty.
blasting the conference for its “lack of unity, strategic planning, leadership and communication” and noting that Warren was shutting down fall sports in his conference while allowing his son, Powers, then a tight end at Mississippi State, to continue playing.
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