THE SIDELINES : Bears Owner Growls for Stadium

Chicago Bears owner Michael McCaskey says Mayor Richard M. Daley needs to make some moves on a new stadium and “get over the myth that it’s impossible for the Bears to leave Chicago.”

McCaskey said Thursday that he is “out of time, out of rope and out of patience” in his efforts for a new tax-supported football stadium to replace Soldier Field along the city’s lakefront.

The team is under contract to play at Soldier Field until 1999, but McCaskey said the stadium is an “aging, decrepit structure whose useful life is nearly at an end.”

McCaskey said Republican Gov. James R. Thompson has been “very supportive” of a new stadium, but said Daley, a Democrat, is “hoping the problem will somehow go away.”