O'Donnell: Is misuse of Fields a bad sign of things to come for the Bears and Arlington Park?

WHEN THE SUPER BOWL-BOUND EAGLES visit Soldier Field Sunday, Justin Fields could score 7 TDs in a 55-27 Bears victory.On-site fans would “ooh.” Stay-at-homes would be comfy-cozier — and much closer to fireplaces and microwaves to yahoo (FOX, noon).The Marvel Entertainment athleticism of Chicago’s No. 1 would be the lead showcase on NBC’s “Football Night in America.”But such a lakefront afternoon would underscore the dismaying organizational nuttiness that permeates Halas Hall these days.THE MERE FACT THAT the franchise’s most valuable on-field asset is playing out a meaningless string of icy home games — and one warehoused in Detroit — shows that the McCaskeys are just brandishing old family inadequacies.Is such a lack of business coherency also a broad hint about the non-future of the Arlington Park project?For the cosmically conscious: • It’s close to 15 full months since the Bears announced “a purchase agreement” with Churchill Downs Inc.;• The 18-month window for all due diligence and a decision is closing fast;• Bunker Bill Carstanjen and the chip-counting highwaymen down at CDI are riding into the holidays with stock at roughly $225 per share, a 30 percent increase from its 52-week low. They also have multiple options set to check through if the Bears can’t close. CONNECTING THE DOTS, if the Bears can’t properly manage a transiting “small” nugget like Fields, why is there any reason to believe that they will actually get a multibillion-dollar redevelopment project done in Arlington Heights?When Pete Rozelle recast the NFL business model as a share-the-wealth, TV-driven cabal in 1963-64, few benefitted as much as the nickel-and-diming George Halas.His heirs remain key passive beneficiaries. The association’s largest single-market franchise should have had its own hometown football palace decades ago.The Halas-McCaskey line repeatedly failed.Now they’ve gotten smarter?The wicked and wasteful use of Fields this hollow holiday season says, “No!”And neither a seven-touchdown Sunday or Marvel Entertainment can change that. STREET-BEATIN’:Much can be said about Charles Barkley’s recent declaration that the Bulls should “blow it up” and switch back into rebuild mode. Three addenda: 1) Lonzo Ball was a dice roll that isn’t working out; 2) Zach LaVine’s monster deal rewarded a basketball skillset over any consistent history as a winner; and 3) As long as Jerry Reinsdorf is near the reins, “The Curse of the Breakup” rules. … The presence of Lionel Messi and Argentina in the FIFA World Cup Final at least gives some sense of regalness to the end of the star-crossed games in Qatar (FOX, Telemundo; Sunday, 9 a.m.). Kylian Mbappé is brilliant but France repeating as champs would seem like a quiz-show scandal. … Robert Griffin III left set mates agape on ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown” when he used a racial pejorative during the broadcast. Griffin later tweeted that he meant to say “Bug-a-Boos” (sic). Either way, wide right. …Stan Lawrence (Bradley University ’78) and chums recently toasted fond memories of Terry Armour. “The Stan & Terry Show” once held sway on the old WCKG-FM. Armour was the Chicago Tribune sports-and-pop-culture whirlwind who died suddenly 15 years ago this month. He was 46 years old. … A multi-regional mom who should know better complained to a host high school athletic director when her star son was missing jump shots while getting mildly chided by homecourt students. (“Over … rated!”) The stunned A.D. declined to silence his hawkish rascals. …