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Dan Bernstein, unfiltered, unfiltered on 312 sports in unfiltered, brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And, boy, you can. You can feel it in the air, man. You can. I don't know if it is anxiety or excitement or some amalgam of both right now, but it is power palpable. It is anecdotally, everybody I'm running into, hey, you think the Bears can do it? Like, yeah, I do. It just. It's. It's a strange place for me to be in that. The level of nervousness, the level of dread is absolutely off the charts. Is there any belief out there? Is there any. I can't believe I'm being this guy, but is there. Is there any sort of a, you know, understanding that? Of course they can win. You can expect them to win.
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B
I am more excited with each. Each passing minute for this game. And after hearing some of the Green Bay packers talk about wanting the Bears in this first round of the playoffs, I'm so pumped, so excited. I cannot wait for the Bears to just roll over this piece of shit organization and these assholes talking shit out of their mouths and their seven seed and continuing to get in the playoffs and their seven seed and not doing anything with it. Hopefully it's the last game for Matt LaFleur to coach the Green Bay Packers. We can shut these guys up and then we can put them to bed because I'm. I cannot wait. I cannot wait for Ben Johnson to just shove it up this guy's ass for 60 minutes and the Bears to kill this fucking Green Bay Packer team. Okay, Sorry. I'm just. I'm excited. I cannot wait.
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A
I guess I'm not. I'm not quite where you are.
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B
Oh, no, dude, I am. I'm there. So it went from nervous anxiety of, I don't want to lose to the Packer. The season can't end yet. And it just. With each minute, man, it just, like the levels are changing from confidence and it's just higher and higher. I'm good to go. I'm ready to go.
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A
Can I maybe offer a guess that some of this has to do with. With the proximity of your home to the Wisconsin border?
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B
It does, Dan, because there's a. There's a lot of Green Bay people up here, and there's Green Bay memorabilia in stores. And like, I can go to the Dick's Sporting Goods in Vernon Hills and you think you're in Illinois. I go to the Dick's Sporting Goods in Gurney and you think you're in Wisconsin and it's Milwaukee buck stuff, and it's brewers and it's packers, and it's like, you know what? You're five minutes away from my house. Get rid of this shit. You're in Illinois. This is Bears territory.
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Well, look, they're coming down to buy weed anyway. And some of these other. Some of these other businesses figure as long as you're here getting your. Your vape penny or getting your edibles, whatever you're picking up, or getting your live resin or your popcorn or your flour, whatever it may be, that you might as well go in and get yourself a Giannis jersey.
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B
Yeah. Because the Illinois people, they go to Wisconsin. Well, they used to go up for New Glarus because you couldn't get New Glarus beer outside of Wisconsin. So now you can do that. And then cheese, like, you know, you want some good cheese. Guess people would go. Would go to Wisconsin. So I guess people come down here and get weed and now they can buy. Yeah. Giannis, Jerzy or who? Is it Nate? Nate Hobbs. Is that his name, right? Is that the God guy? Nate Hobbs. And get a Nate Hobbs.
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A
Yeah, I like Nate Hobbs. Nate Hobbs blames losses on God. He's my hero.
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B
He didn't really blame God. He just kind of said that's what God picked. He said God picked the Bears.
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Not his fault. I've been waiting all my life for it. I've been waiting my entire life for a player to do the George Miller joke. The game was going great till Jesus made me fumble, and he did it. So Nate Hobbs will always have a special place in my heart. It's like, look, God didn't want us to win. Now what are we expecting me to do? Can I get away from my locker?
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B
That was great.
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A
It was great. It was awesome. My favorite.
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B
Yeah, I'm excited, man. I can't wait. I'm so excited for this game. It's going to be a long day tomorrow, but again, busy. So we got a lot of stuff happening to get right up to kickoff.
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A
So I can't real quick. Last night's Bulls game got rained out. I didn't think that was possible, but it was just getting weird. And those poor broadcasters. My God, Adam and Stacy and. And Casey Johnson and the vamping. Oh, my God. They don't expect to have to do a two hour talk show or a three hour talk show to see though, that. That sucked for that.
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B
Well, you know why?
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You know why? The game got. I. I felt terrible, but I was Also enjoying the obvious difficulty that was going on. I'm not gonna lie. Like, all right, dude, sports talk show, let's hear it. What you got? Go ahead.
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B
It's easy.
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A
Anyone lay it out. I know it's easy, but these guys are like, oh, what can we talk about?
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B
Well, you know why that happened.
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A
I would advise him in that mode. Like, hey, you really want to do this right? If you want to, you want a shortcut? You want a cheap shortcut? Figure out something that everybody loves and just say it sucks and defend your position, go ahead, go get it.
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B
I think the players did it deliberately so they could watch the Miami and Ole Miss game.
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A
That was. They.
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B
They did not want to miss the.
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A
College football game was going around.
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B
How can we play this basketball game when there's a college football game on that determines who goes to the national championship?
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I hope they got to see it. It was a hell of a game. That fourth quarter was just gangbusters, man. There was stuff going on and there was strategic stuff and in kicking doinks and everything. There was. It was fun game, you know, it was.
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B
It was a really fun game that. And you're right that the final like seven minutes of that fourth quarter were just unbelievable. And I think Trinidad shambles. He's staying for another year, right? He's staying. Ole Miss. Yeah. Good for him because that. That dude is going to be in the final four, if not the championship game next year with this team. I don't know what their roster is going to look like after they coach. Yeah, who knows? I mean, who knows? But after they. If they. Who knows what their roster looks like after this season. But that. That dude's the real deal, man. That. That they need all the throws he can run. You had. They had a chance there at the end. I don't like that play call. I'm not sure I like. No, I'm not sure I liked using the sideline of the end zone as another defender there in that corner, that corner pass. But anyway, there was a play in the second quarter. I want to. I think it was the second quarter when Ole Miss tied the game up 10:10 on a field goal. The play right before the field goal when Champliss got shoved out of bounds. You remember that playing the sideline. He was.
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A
I may have been enjoying whatever topic Stacy and Adam and Casey were. Talk show Casey sitting on the scores table.
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B
So he was. He was scrambling to the. The right sideline and he threw the ball away because there was no one to go to. And I could have Sworn he had a foot on the white line and he got shoved from behind by a defensive line and completely unnecessary and late and there was no flags. I was really surprised by it. And it's not the first time, watching Ole Miss through these playoffs this year that I thought the officials let a lot go that would be called a lot tighter in the NFL. Like, I, I've watched some pretty violent football games in this, in this college football.
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A
That was one of them this year. That was definitely one of them. I mean, some of the stuff that Miami was doing was just stupid. I thought they were going to stupid their way into a loss. Yeah. With the, the late hit penalty and everything that they were doing. I just, I don't trust that Ole Miss is going to be back there unless they get a real coach. Play a little game with yourself. Every time they show that guy a golding. What's his name?
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B
And the guy with the visor. Right?
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A
Yeah. And the beard. Every time they show him, he looks like this, his mouth is open.
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B
Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't trust. Okay.
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A
Never talks. He's not talking. He's just standing there with his mouth open. What are you doing?
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B
Couple things I can. I'll share this with you about coaches. Any. Any coach that wears jeans. I don't trust. Okay. Coaches, coaches and visors. I don't trust. And coaches that. Now this goes to wardrobe too, that are wearing like polo shirts and non. Like non team or non sports polo shirt. Like a regular polo shirt.
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A
Like a golf shirt.
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B
Not interested. Not interested. Yeah.
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A
Okay.
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B
Your coach at any level of any sport of any age. Visor, jeans, non sports polo shirt. Gotta go.
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A
Okay. So what rules did he violate last night? The visor.
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B
The visor. Yeah. I'm not a fan of the visor. Yeah. There's no college coaches. The, the jeans is more for the youth level. When I'm watching my children or my stepchildren play and I see.
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A
So, you know, you, you know you've got the win if the other coach is wearing jeans.
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B
100% okay. Absolutely 100% okay.
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A
That you know more than I and better than I. I will take that under advisement. It was just a very strange night of flipping because I kept flipping back going, maybe the Bulls game has started. Oh, maybe the Bulls game has started. And when I saw what was happening, I flashed back. This is going to be. This show is going to be a lot about memories today. Because when we get after Friday Feedback Friday and we get to our top 10 list of bears playoff memories. I had to. I had to really kind of go some places. Yesterday I stayed after work and sat here and took a good hour and a half, minimum just to get my range of plays before I spent, you know, another hour winnowing them down to my top 10 and honorable mentions and really had to think about what was there. But I was. When I saw what was going on in the Bulls game, it took me back to Raleigh, North Carolina, and the state fairgrounds and Dorton arena where our Raleigh Bullfrogs played. It was their first year of existence and I was the director of broadcasting and public relations and you know, de facto assistant coach and assistant, everything else. And the. They put ice underneath for a brand new hockey team, minor league hockey team called the Raleigh Ice Caps that played in the same arena. Nobody knew what the hell was going on. The facilities director was this corn pone government official. When it came time to change over the ice to the basketball floor, they would bus in a chain gang from the prison up the road. And the prisoners, the state prison would come in and for whatever it is, 30 cents an hour, would lay down the creosote and put together the basketball court. And it's Raleigh, North Carolina, so it got, you know, a little warm there in the spring, and we had to cancel the game due to condensation on the court. And I had to be the guy on the microphone informing the crowd that the game was postponed. And I ended up on all three affiliated local news broadcasts that night. Well, here is their public relations director announcing to the crowd. And it was embarrassing. It wasn't our fault because it was the state that hired the prisoners to come in and do everything. And apparently they left doors open or didn't turn the temperature down. And that's all I could think of. I never thought I'd see it in the NBA. I know it used to happen in occasionally in Boston. The old floor would have the little metal screws in it, the old parquet floor that they would actually tighten up from the very top. And they were recessed underneath the parquet. And there were some areas there that would get teams in trouble if they had one of the old floors. Going back a long time when hockey was just starting in some of the same arenas, but never thought I'd see the day that that would happen. I don't know if they got a problem with their compressors or what's going on with the ice underneath, if it was melting. There were all kinds of reports. I guess we'll find out more, but yeah. Too bad. Too bad. Because it puts a little stress on the schedule makers. And, boy, we didn't get our preview of the play in that we were expecting last night of the Bulls and the Heat because we know when those teams meet in the play in, you got to throw the records out.
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B
Bulls don't play tonight, right? No. Yeah, they're off. Okay, so they can.
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A
They get to watch this?
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B
They watch Indiana Oregon without having to sabotage the stadium.
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A
Correct.
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B
Okay, good, good. Good to know. That's awesome. Congrats for them. And then Saturday, where they. Are they at home or on the road?
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That's Dallas at home, I think.
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So they're at home again. Oh, they can sabotage. Okay, so they can sabotage the stadium Saturday night, watch the Bears game, and then their lives will be all good. Don't worry about the game that you play professionally. You just. You sabotage the stadium once again so you can watch the Bears and Packers game. I'm here for it.
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A
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B
My buddy just sent me this. And not my buddy, but my buddy, you know, Malachi, Tony had that unbelievable screen touchdown.
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A
Well, the blocking. My God, that wave of blockers.
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B
The offensive lineman that came out. Yes, that was.
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A
Well. And remember, for those of you wondering why you don't see that in the NFL, you're not allowed to get that far down the field. In the NFL, you're just not.
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He just sent me this note. Tony. Malachi. Tony was 11 years old when Carson Beck was a freshman in college. That's. That's fucking fantastic.
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A
And by the way, Carson Beck is a rag arm. He.
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B
He needs, like a good night's sleep or something, man. I don't know what was going on or maybe some vitamin D, I don't know.
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But some of those throws were lollipops, man.
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Somewhere. You're not. You're not wrong. But when he needed to make throws, man, he made the throws and he made some plays, I'll give him that much.
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A
But when he tries to put air under the ball, when he throws it on a line, it looks okay. Yeah, when he tries to get it down the field, it just balloons a little bit. It balloons on him. Yeah. That's not a good trait. Not a good trait.
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B
I was really happy, though, with the outcome of that because I like. I wanted both teams to win because the whole Miami, Notre Dame thing, you know, I want that in Miami to win for that reason.
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A
And I wanted Ole Miss to win.
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I wanted to miss to win because, you know, Lane Kiffin's like, I'm gonna go win a championship here. Well, okay. Well, those guys just won one, so. Yeah, it was. It was. It was a struggle, but really enjoyable game. Love. Loved it all.
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A
So, yeah, I'm been watching college football this year and enjoying it in a way that I haven't in the past. There's a lot of factors in there that are more a me thing than it is a college football thing. But I have been sorting through all of the responses that have come in to dan@312sports.com I know you can also send things to matt@312sports.com but we call this Friday Feedback Friday.
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B
Can I share one first to start?
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A
I was going to share the one to which you responded, but yes, you can.
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B
Yeah. Just real quick. I want to do this for you real fast because this is so. Let me adjust our screen here. This is from my buddy Justin, who is part of the modern day Romeos.
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A
Okay. The band that played at our roast.
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B
Yes. No, the anniversary show.
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A
Anniversary show.
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B
Okay. Anniversary show out at Real time Sports. And the whole band, big Borz and Bernstein fans. So they've been listening to us for years, listening to the podcast. Love it all. So my buddy Justin and his brother Jim, they actually. They're the lead singers and the really. The frontman. The handsome guys. Justin's the handsome guy.
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A
They put the ugly guys in the back.
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B
Jim's the tall guy. Yeah.
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A
Oh, yeah, I like the tall guy. He bought me a shot.
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B
He's tall. Justin's handsome. Okay. And so he sent me this based on your love for Stan Van Gundy and then our love of my buddy. And he gave us my Gundy. Oh, no, I love it. My Gundy. My Gundy. Wherever I go.
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A
I know. He.
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B
It's kind of like the pillow that you want, but it's like a portable size. You can just carry it around with him.
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A
It's a body pillow. Yeah. He looks a little too happy. That's the only problem I have.
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B
He doesn't have that smile.
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A
No. He needs to be more world weary. I just need the look as if a ball has tipped off his player's hand out of bounds, and he kind of rolls his eyes skyward and realizes that his earthly existence is cursed.
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B
All right, well, I wanted to share.
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A
That's great.
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Kick out of that from Justin. Yeah, thanks, Jay. Appreciate it.
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A
But the hair makes it. That's. That's great. Thank you, Justin. See, but you know what you've done with that?
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B
Oh, I opened the door now.
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A
Yeah. And I think you've made Strangles very angry.
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B
Well, I just realized that I could do that today, so. Strangles.
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A
Okay.
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It's funny that you say that, because the second I figured out that this could work, I was like, shit, I should have put Strangles stuff up there over the last, you know, several months.
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A
Right. Because Strangles the clown. Yeah, Strangles the Clown. I don't know who the hell it is, but he's obviously an unwell human enlargement.
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B
We love him for it. We have this option now.
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A
Yeah. Because he constructs graphic creations based around narratives and bits that are built throughout these podcasts. So if you've saved him. I mean, I don't even know if the bits still work because they come so fast and they're so topical sometimes to that day.
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B
I'll save it for the future. We have it now, so.
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A
All right, now, can I start with the voice message that was sent via the 312 Sports app?
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B
Yes, I have it right here.
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A
And I should always remind you that if you haven't gotten the app yet, get it. Just go to Google Play or the Apple App Store. And, you know, it looks something like this and there's all sorts of stuff on there, and you can access everything that we've got. So you tell me what's going on here. I think, you know, let me just say first, there's a lot of weird stuff that comes in.
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B
A lot.
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A
Some voice messages from some strange and lonely People. Which is okay. We're here for you.
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B
Yep. That.
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That's. We said that if you ever feel like just talking, we're here. And there's some stuff that is unsettling, some stuff that we're, you know, which is okay because we offer that to. To be there for you. I. I think I know what this is, but you tell me. Listen closely, because I just pick up my phone somewhere, I'm sitting on the couch, and I just hit play and.
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B
Yeah, I saw. I haven't listened to this yet, so.
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A
Oh, okay. Yeah, just.
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B
I haven't heard it yet.
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A
I think I know after a couple hearings of what I think it is.
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B
All right, here we go.
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Dan, it's Jack. I just wanted to remind you that the job of Chicago Sports podcast through can be both mentally and physically demanding. So don't forget your meds, and above all, don't forget to wear your jock. Okay?
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B
Okay. So what do you.
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A
What do you think that is?
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B
Well, it's. It's pretty good voice impersonation of Jack.
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A
See, that's the thing.
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B
I didn't.
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A
I didn't realize until the second time through he's doing a Jack Nicholson impersonation.
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B
Really? You didn't hear? The second he said, hey, it's Jack, I was like, oh, he's doing.
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A
No, I thought it's a guy named Jack.
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B
Oh, no, I knew immediately he was okay. Impersonation.
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A
Okay. I didn't. Because I'm like, okay, like, this is weird. Like, where. Where am I? What? And then it was. It was the second time, like, oh, so what.
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B
What I don't get, though, is that a reference to something I'm missing?
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A
I don't know. I'm asking. Okay.
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B
Yeah, I don't.
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A
It's not Five Easy Pieces, right? Whereas, like. And I want you to hold it between your knees. You know, the whole thing.
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B
Yeah.
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A
The tuna sandwich or, like, obvious.
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B
And that we're both idiots, but it's.
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A
Got to be a dark night. Or the Batman thing that he did or the joke. I don't know.
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B
Maybe. Oh, yeah, that's a good guess. Maybe it's a Joker. Thing is, maybe. Maybe it might be. I'm sure someone who listens to this podcast will tell us that we're idiots and that it's from this. And it's probably very clear, because at.
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A
First I just sort of found the.
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B
Fact that you didn't know that he.
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A
Was doing an impersonation until the.
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B
Cause.
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A
No, because you should hear some of the stuff that comes in here and it was a good enough impersonation now that I realized what was happening. Yeah, but the first time, when you're going through this one and there's a lot of earnest saying, hey, I think the Bears are going to beat the Packers. And here's why.
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B
No, that was an impersonation of Ernest. That was an impersonation of Jack Nicholson.
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A
Somebody else will say, hey, you're eating the wrong ice cream, because this is the better ice cream. And, oh, I ran into a guy at Mariano's yesterday.
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B
Okay.
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A
I'm going to my car in the parking lot. And the guy goes, hey, Bernstein. And I said, hey. He goes, you're making me fat and stupid, right? I said, what do you mean? He said. He goes, that fast Break Bar. And I said, yeah, well. And he goes, yeah, and Taco Max. Well, yeah, okay. So I said, I'm not going to apologize. I made your life better if I might be making you fat and stupid and weird. But so what?
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B
I did a. Well, I didn't. I just didn't say. I did add the whole pint. I got a pint of Ben and Jerry's Pistachio.
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A
Pistachio. It's good, isn't it? Dude, Yes.
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B
I could have kept going.
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A
I know.
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B
But I. Yeah, I forced myself to stop. I'm like, all right, save some. Have some tomorrow. Wrap it up tomorrow, you know?
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A
Well, before we get football, after all the McRib talk yesterday, ribs at Mariano's are, like 2.99 a pound.
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B
Okay.
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A
I got a rack of baby backs.
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B
Nice.
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A
And I made them last night. I dry rubbed them. I cooked them at, like, 225 for two and a half hours. And then it was pouring out all night, obviously. And then I finished them at 450, sauced them, and then did it, you know, heated it up at 450, turned on the convection, made. It's, like, crackly and kind of burned around the edges.
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B
Turn out good.
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A
Stouffer's Mac and Cheese. Ate the whole slab. And then I ate three Little Debbie Nutty Buddies.
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B
Oh, wow. Salad.
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A
Three packages. So six actual bars.
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B
Oh, no, I get it. Yep. Yeah, I know how you roll.
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A
It's. Good night. It was really solid.
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B
Good stuff.
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A
Now can I move on? Can I move on to emails?
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B
Yes. That's the only audio we have, so.
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That's the only audio. And I want to. I want to start with this one that you have read that I just thought was great. It's from Eric. Eric writes in and says, hey, boys, finished DBU today. And the Radio callers discussion inspired me to write. Aside from being able to listen to you anytime I want, no morons, calling in is the second best part of this pod format. It also reminded me of my first and only attempt to call the Boars and Bernstein show. I've mentally recovered from it now, so I thought you guys might enjoy. This is way back around the super bowl that year, you guys were talking about Ray Lewis and I can't remember the exact discussion, but the general idea was how he was a bad dude and didn't understand why everyone was so fond of him. Except you failed to point out the most obvious fact to prove your point. He was part of a murder and totally got away with it. So I couldn't listen. As you guys were talking about stuff that was way less important to your argument, I called in. Matt gets me on, asks me why I'm calling, and I could feel how pissed he was to be taking calls. I tell him why I called. He just says hold. Having never called in before, I didn't know what to expect. Matt gave me zero guidance. So of course I make the amateur move and leave the radio on. While I'm waiting, I hear a bunch of clicks on the phone and all of a sudden Dan's talking to me. Although on the radio he's still talking about something else My brain didn't process. I froze. I panicked. I realized at this moment any point I made would be glossed over since I'd be immediately labeled another stupid ass caller and get berated. So I hung up. And after realizing this, Dan made some comment like, or don't tell us why you called, dumbass. I sat in my car with shame. Never attempted to call in again. Well, with that off my chest, honest question. Why do any programs take callers? It is the absolute worst. It ruins the show. As soon as I hear it happening on anything I'm listening to, I change the channel. The only tolerable caller segment was Borz and Bernstein because you guys would berate idiots like me who were unprepared. I absolutely loved it. The only callers you ever let talk were the gems of Chicago, like Bob from Niles or that other guy up in Wisconsin that would be hammered going to the bar. You'd call him for his game picks.
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Mike from Milwaukee.
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Mike from Milwaukee. The late great. Anyway, go Bears. I already have crippling anxiety for this game, he said. I swear to a God that I don't believe in. They better beat these northern rednecks. That's great.
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B
That was a really good Call. And I wish I could say I remembered it, but there's so many of those that would fall in that order.
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A
I'd be lying if I said I remember.
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B
I didn't know I was supposed to give guidance. I just, I had no idea that was part of my job.
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Huh. John says this. And this. This is a sentiment that was shared by many, including some voice messages too. Guys, what was Herm Edwards famous quote? You play to not give up a ton of yards. The defense only gave up 19 points to Detroit. How many weeks over the last few seasons were you, along with most of us, complaining about Justin Fields or Caleb Williams? Led offense is not able to score once they got in the red zone. It works both ways. Obviously, nobody wants the defense to give up a ton of yards, but points surrendered is far more important. Defense didn't look great against Detroit, but they were not the reason the Bears lost. They lost because the offense only scored 16. Dropped passes on key downs. Not great passes like 100 mile an hour slant to burden on that last drive. Penalties at inopportune times. It's why they didn't score enough. Focus. We're not talking stats like it's baseball. It's football. Mr. That's from John.
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Yeah, and I'll say it again. Bears were 9 and 1 in the regular season when they gave up 24 points or less. So they can do it. The packers and their seven losses. Dan, their average point total was 16 in those seven losses. Bears. Bears can win this game. And they should win this game. And they will win this game handily. Boom.
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Okay, AJ AJ Says. Dan and Matt, I love your show. If my memory serves, the Bears Arlington racetrack deal closed under Kevin Warren, but it was pursued originally by Ted Phillips. It makes me wonder if Ted, in an attempt to help the Bears, once again made a decision that ultimately screwed them. I'm in the camp. The things Kevin Warren knows the McCaskeys don't have the liquidity to build a new stadium. And therefore he has to try leverage ploys to get the money from local governments to build. While I feel no sympathy for Warren, I do kind of empathize with his situation. He comes in, he realizes the McCaskeys have no liquidity, and he thinks to himself, you idiots, you did this. Out of order. You need public agreements before you buy them land. And he's now forced to try these leverage plays that won't work because the Bears already own a piece of land that literally can only be used for a stadium.
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All right, so is that. Is that accurate?
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Did.
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Was it like signed under Kevin Warren? I thought it was done before.
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Well, that's what he said, that it was. Phillips.
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No, but, but I thought, I thought the deal was done. I thought it was not pursued by and then finished under Warren. I thought it was completed before war came.
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I, I think, think it was at least close. Like most of the material work had been done. Yeah.
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B
Okay.
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A
These things take a while.
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But let me say this though about that, that, that email and it's good thoughts, appreciate it. The only, the only issue I have there is that if Kevin Warren realized that the Bears don't have the liquidity to do this, they need some public assistance. If Kevin Warren understands that like he claims he does, then every interaction he's had with state officials has been the wrong fucking way to do it. So if he gets it and then acts the way he's acted, then he's stupid and deserves everything that comes with it.
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Well, he's also treating other people like they're stupid, which is part of the problem. Yeah, that's the biggest issue is that the whole thing is so transparent. And that's been the reaction of lawmakers and government officials. And he continues to bang the drums and fan the flames and do his little dance and nobody's buying it. Right. I did not expect this, but I'm appreciative of it. This is from Felicia and Felicia. Hi. Felicia says hi, Dan. Regarding your love of ice cream, please see the attachment for the best peppermint ice cream and coffee ice cream, bar none. It is costly, but it's worth it. Give it a try. Says enjoying the pods. Entertaining and insightful. And Felicia sent me a picture of something called McConnell's Fine Ice Creams. Okay. And it is a Chicago based, it's a local company. These are, these are pints that cost $12 each.
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B
Oh boy.
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Yeah. Oh boy is right. And they're, they've got a store locator. I think the Whole Foods at Belmont and Lincoln is going to be my best bet. I know a $12 pint of ice cream. It better be mind blowingly good. I've got to give it a shot.
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B
I'm going to look and see if I could find. If it's at the Whole Foods near me, I'll grab some today because I got to go out that direction and buy.
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Okay. Do you remember like in Pulp Fiction when at the time it's like what is a $5 milkshake? This guy, I, I got to see what a $5 milkshake tastes like. That's the kind of feeling I have on this. Like, I would do it almost as to experience what is a $12 pint of ice cream, actually.
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B
Well, they have a Pint of the Month club.
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A
Yep. And unlike Haagen Dazs, it is a pint. It's not 14 ounces. So the.
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B
You're not even mad about it, though? That's the whole thing.
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No, no, no. If it's for 12 bucks, I better get my money's worth and I better take my. My lactase pill. Everything is just right, but I'm in. And, Felicia, thanks for thinking of us. Dan.
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They have a flavor called apple cider and cranberry jam. Pumpkin spice latte. They got that PB and J with peanut butter patties, strawberry with strawberry creams, vanilla with California brittle, coffee with molasses chips, banana cream with toffettes, chocolate with polar bear paws. Like, real polar bear paws. That's hard to come by.
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I know.
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B
Yeah, that pistachio and almond biscotti.
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A
Did I lose you?
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B
For the moment you did.
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A
Yeah. Sorry.
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B
I'm back. I'm back.
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Okay, good. Good. Dave from Indianapolis, who reminds us he was formerly known as the emailer, known as Bottomless Monkey, who says, I'm a few days behind. But, Dan, you advised us to not read the Wikipedia entry about the band Badfinger, and I do. That's a standing piece of advice. He said, I did worse than that. I read the biography. And he said, as Terry Boers would have said, it made me want to put my head in the microwave being on the Beatles label, but nobody there giving a damn about them. Not one, but two key suicides under substantially similar circumstances, a manager who stole the band blind and ended up suffering no consequences, endless infighting among the surviving members, and on and on and on. Yikes. He says, guys, keep up the great work. Love all three shows. I emailed him back. I said, I warned you. And he just said, you did. Fair play.
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Yeah.
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Just don't. Don't go down the rabbit hole. Don't read about Bad Finger. It'll just make you unhappy. Everything else in the world is making you unhappy. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't advise doing that. If you think, whatever happened to Bad Finger, don't indulge that. That quest. And lastly, we'll close on this. We have another music reference here, and this has to do with. With Chubby Checker and the fact that we determined that Chubby Checker was indeed still alive. And why were we talking about him again? What started us down that road.
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It had something to do with the ad he was in for the 84 White Sox.
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A
Yes, the 80. Yeah, right. Let's do it again.
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B
Let's do it again.
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We did last summer. Last summer. Correct. But there was some other reason why we got to Chubby Checker. And I can't even remember what it.
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B
Was that he's still alive.
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A
Yeah, but that's not how we got there.
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We got there because of the. The. The. The ad for the 84 White Sox.
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No, no, no, no, no, it's not. But that was. There was something. There was some other reason why we got there. I can't remember right now, but what I didn't realize is Chubby Checker and he sent this in. Chubby Ch. Bob says that the song the Twist was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960 and again in 1962. It is the only song to top the charts in two separate runs during what's defined as the rock and roll era. Like, think about that. The song hits number one. Two years later, the same song hits number one again.
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B
Interesting.
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That's badass is what that is. So the only other example was Bing Crosby's White Christmas that hit number one three times. 1942, 45, and 46. And holds the record for most number ones for one song that was a holiday hit across different years. I had no idea that the Twist had a two year gap in between the number of times it was a number one rock and roll song. That's pretty cool.
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B
It is very cool. So initially it was based on the craze of teenagers loving the song, and then an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show brought it to an older audience.
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A
Okay. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. You figured that out already. I agree. I believe it is interesting.
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B
Yeah. I did regular Google this time.
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A
Oh, not racist Google.
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B
I didn't do racist Google.
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A
I think that's smart of you.
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B
Yeah, I'm trying to stay away from that.
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A
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B
All right, are you ready?
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A
Let me get my stuff in front of me because I have to. I also, I got to make sure that I have the information that I.
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B
Need on my so here's what we decided to do. We decided to do the the top 10 most memorable bears playoff moments.
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A
And this is memorable subjectively. This is not most significant. It's not the most important. It is to us, to the individuals, what has mattered most and what is easiest to access. And a lot of these I went back and I sort of checked because I have these schemas in my head. A lot of it has to do with the old phrase people don't remember what you say, people remember how you made them feel. And I think that applies here too, that these sort of memories have, for better or for worse, some of my strongest feelings, some as a young fan, some later. And I tried to do it fairly and honestly in that regard.
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So what we did, this was actually a little bit different process here at my house. I actually sat in with the committee and went through and did this list because I wanted to make it personal just for this time around. And I will say I had about seven, seven things right off the top of my head that I could have put down on paper and some other stuff I had to dig through and then think through. But first I want to start with a dishonorable mention. And this dishonorable mention goes to the 2020 NFL season in the NFC. Washington Football Team wins their division at 7 and 9. The Bears get in at an even 8 and 8 and they lose in their playoff game to The New Orleans Saints. 21 9. David Montgomery finished with 31 yards. Riley Ridley was their top receiver with 36 yards.
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And I remember a dropped pass.
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Although they did have seven guys with receptions, which is, which is pretty interesting. Just wanted to just mention out the 2020 NFL season in the NFC. The Bears get in at 8 and 8 and lose to the Saints 21 to 9. Two honorable mentions. Oh, I wanted to say this too first, just immediately taking off the board, The Super Bowl 20 victory, that's just, I mean, I mean obviously that's my greatest memory as a Bears fan. As a 13 year old kid watching the Bears win the super bowl. Just. I didn't want to put that on the list just because that's just. That's a no brainer. Of course, winning the super bowl is the most significant, memorable thing I have, but I didn't want to put that on my list. I wanted other things in there. So two honorable mentions. This first one goes back to December 29, 1991. And this could actually be a dishonorable mention. But I loved Jim Harbaugh. I loved Jim Harbaugh as a Bears quarterback. I followed Jim Harbaugh to the Indianapolis Colts. I remember he was a play away from taking the Colts to the super bowl when they lost to the Steelers. I loved Harbaugh. But this game, but this particular game, December 29, 1991, was a 1713 loss at Soldier Field to the Cowboys. Harbaugh threw two picks and some guy who I didn't like named Steve Berline was 9 of 18 for 180 yards. Had a rating of 103.9. And that loss just. It just stung me as a Jim Harbaugh fan. Another honorable mention. This is well before my time, but I wanted to mention it because it was December 8, 1940. The Bears win the league's championship game, 73 to nothing over Washington.
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That's not a memory for you, but it doesn't matter.
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B
I wanted to give an honorable mention.
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A
But that's not a memory.
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B
But it's not a memory because I've read it and I've watched it and I've seen the highlights and oh, boo you. It's an honorable mention. It didn't make the list, so shut up, dude. They won a championship game, 73 to 0.
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A
But it's not a memory of yours.
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B
It can be right now. It was a. It was actually a memory of my great, great grandpa Vito. And he would tell me about it as a child, Dan. So it. I have memories of Uncle Vito.
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A
I took this very seriously.
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B
I did, too.
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A
Douche.
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B
Uncle Vito telling me about this game was very important to me in my childhood.
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A
And then you went Olive Garden. I know. I don't immediately took him to Olive Garden.
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B
We'd go to Olive Garden for dinner and desserts, and we'd have some drinks. And then he'd tell me all about the 40 championship games. So don't you start with me. All right? Number 10. Yeah. January 1, 1995. Game was in Minnesota. The Bears were led by Steve Walsh. They beat the Vikings 35 to 18. Steve Raymond Harris 15 of 23. The Ultra back for 221. He had two touchdowns. Jeff Graham finished with 108 and had a touchdown. But here's. There's another reason why this game stands out to me. The quarterbacks for the Vikings that day were Warren Moon and Sean Salisbury. And there's a running back in that game who didn't start one game in the regular season for the Vikings, but had himself quite the game. You remember Antonia Lee, or as we called him in the NFL, Amp Lee, the running back?
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Yes, amply. Yes, I do. He played amply.
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Didn't start one game for the Vikings in the regular season, but he had 11 receptions for 159 yards and a touchdown in that game. But Bears get the win. And Warren Moon quarterbacking for the Vikings. He goes down. Sean Salisbury comes in, but Steve Walsh gets the win. So that's number 10. Number nine. January 19, 2002, NFC Divisional Round at Soldier Field. I remember it very clearly. The Bears were trailing 13 to 7, and Jerry Azuma picks off. Donovan McNabb takes it to the house. Bears take the lead 14 to 13. And it would be the last time the Bears led in that game as the Eagles won at Soldier Field, 33 to 19.
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A
That is not the play I remember from that game.
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B
Okay, that's fine.
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A
Okay.
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B
Number eight. January 15th, 2006. We'll just call it the Steve Smith game. It was quarterbacked by Jake of the man. He was 24 of 33 for 319, with 218 of those going to Smith on 12 receptions and two touchdowns at Soldier Field. The Steve Smith game. January 15, 2006.
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That is an honorable mention for me. Steve Smith, 218 yards, 12 receptions and doing whatever he wanted.
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Number seven. January 3, 1987, 2713 loss in the divisional round to Washington. Why? It stands out because Mike Ditka started Doug Flutie at quarterback and he played piss poorly. The defense held the record that year. Now this was following the super bowl season, so this is 86, 87. Defense set the record for fewest points allowed in a season until the 2000 Ravens broke that record. The Bears in that 85, 86 season, went 29 and 3 and yet lost the divisional round to Washington behind the quarterback play of Doug Flutie.
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A
Okay, I have something else from that game on my list.
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B
Okay, number six is. January 12, 1986. Three minutes left in the game. Richard Dent sacks quarterback Dieter Brock. Wilbur Marshall returns the fumble 52 yards for a touchdown as. What happens at Soldier Field, Dan?
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A
The snow began and Otis Wilson and William Perry folded in behind Wilbur Marshall like fighter planes in formation to finish off the 23 to nothing win. A 52 yard fumble return. And this. And it was Richard Dent who came in and hit Dieter Brock. Initially. That play is my number one Bears memory.
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B
Is it really?
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A
It is my. It is the best feeling I have ever had in my life as a Chicago Bears fan.
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B
One correction. Wasn't it. Wasn't it 24 to 0, the final 24 0?
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A
I believe it was 24, 0.
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B
Okay.
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The. It was the best feeling I have ever had in my life as a Bears fan.
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B
And I love that description. Like fighter jets going into the end zone.
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A
Big flakes of snow, big fl. And it was when Wilbur picked it up and took off. And then you had these bodyguards come in, take this thing to the house together. And it was then that the. The super bowl became almost an afterthought. Yeah, it became. Anybody in the Bears way at that point was. Was going to be demoralized.
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B
Very cool. So that's your number one?
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A
That is my. That. That was the. The easiest thing I did on that list was that play being my number one.
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B
Really?
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A
Yep.
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B
All right. Number five. January 23rd, 2011. The Jay Cutler knee injury in the NFC championship game versus Green Bay will just go down as one of the most depressing memories for me as a Bears fan in a team that I thought had a chance to win the Super Bowl. And then the aftermath of that injury, all the shit that Jay Cutler took, not being tough enough, not being, you know, man enough to stay, going to dinner, all of the. The commentary from guys On Twitter at the time, players saying that if I had a sprained knee, you wouldn't be able to get me out of that game in real time doing all that. So that's number five for me. January 23, 2011, the Jay Cutler knee injury game. Number four. January 8, 1989. Bears hosting San Francisco in the NFC championship game. The Niners came in the Soldier Field as a two point favorite on the road and they absolutely kicked the shit out of the Bears 28 to 3. San Francisco Dan had no penalties in that game. They scored a touchdown in every quarter and they finished with over 400 yards of offense. What it did though, it ended the 1984 through the 1988 seasons, the run that the Bears and Mike ditka had. The 89 season, the Bears won 6 and 10. Now they did make the playoffs again in 90 and 91, but it just wasn't the same. That 84 to 88 run where the Bears won five consecutive division titles and finished with a regular season record of 62 and 17. The Niners brought that all to an end with that 28 to 3 win at Soldier Field.
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A
That was my number seven on my list. And the reason why it is a vivid memory for me is because my cousin Adam and I sat in the north end zone for that game.
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B
Did you really?
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A
And yeah. And it was also what should have been the end forever of the concept of bear weather. Because if you remember going into the game, they said it's going to be cold, it's going to be windy. There is no way that these, these softies from San Francisco are going to waltz here into Soldier Field to be able to deal with the cold. It's bare weather. It was 20 degrees with a relative humidity of 72%. The wind was 29 mph with gusts that moving faster than that. And the wind chill was 2 degrees. And the Niners had from. From jump. They started with a 61 yard pass from Montana to Rice. They went up 14 to nothing on a 27 yard pass from Montana to Rice. It was never close. It was never a game. The weather had absolutely nothing to do with it. And where it should have been a reason to dispatch forever with this concept of bear weather, it didn't. And I've always lamented that fact.
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B
All right, number three, what number was that for you?
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A
Or was that my number? 7?
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B
7. Okay, number three on my list is the Devin Hester opening kickoff return in the 2007 Super Bowl. Just an easy one.
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A
That is number three on my list.
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B
Very good. We're the same.
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A
That is also number three, the Devin Hester kickoff return. That was a. That's an all time Chicago sports. Obviously because of the Bears involved. It's an all time Chicago sports moment.
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B
Number two for me is a negative memory. And it's the January 6, 2019 game. The Bears lose to Philly 1615 on what is now known as the double Doink game. Nothing else needs to be said about that.
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A
The double Doink experience, that kick, that play, that moment is my number five memory of the Bears in the playoffs.
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B
It's funny, I was so. This was. I was working at Crassulas restaurant here. Greek restaurant in town, no longer open. My buddies Theo and Nick just closed the place up not too long ago. But I'm working that day. And so we're watching the game and the place was empty. So we're sitting around the bar watching the game. And when they went for that kick, Dan, I couldn't, I couldn't watch. So I went outside and I just. I wanted to watch through the window. The reaction of all my friends and co workers at the bar.
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A
They fell down, didn't they?
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B
And it. No. What happened? It was funny. There was a somewhat of a delay. There's a bar down the street called Morgan's. Yep. And I heard the reaction from the crowd at Morgan's before I saw the reaction of my friends watching inside the restaurant. So before I saw their bodies fall to the ground and hands up in the air and yells and screams, I heard the misery and the pain coming from the other bar down the street. So I knew that he missed the kick. And then to see how he missed the kick, oh, it was just terrible. So that's number two for me, the double doink. And number one, while it's part of an encompassing, fantastic, greatest memory of my, you know, of my time as a Bears fan, number one for me is Walter Payton not scoring a touchdown in Super Bowl 20. That will always be something that I remember about that game.
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A
It's really interesting why that stuck with you.
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B
It always stuck with me. And the fact that the Fridge scored a touchdown and Walter Payton did not score a touchdown in the super bowl. Something that that dude, since what, 77 was working towards and you know, the greatest in the game ever. And to not be able to score a touchdown in the super bowl in a game where your team scored 46 points, where you had opportunities to get him in the end zone. I'll never ever, ever not think of Super Bowl 20 and not think of Walter Payton not scoring a touchdown.
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It's really interesting. That's really interesting. See, that's the kind of thing that when I went into this to try to really be honest about what's memorable and why it's memorable. And I had to make some changes because there were some things that sounded like they should be that weren't necessarily for me. So these are the crossovers that we've had on this list so far was one of my honorable mentions was Steve Smith's 218 yards receiving and two touchdowns for the Carolina Panthers. We had number seven. The. My personal experience attending that NFC championship against the 49ers in 89. The double doink I had at number five. And like I say, my, my number one, my easiest number one was that Wilbur Marshall fumble return. When Bears fans felt, I guess vicariously invincible. Bears fans of the certain of us at that time, that was a, that was a feeling of I'm. I have conquered the world. We're absolutely invincible. Nothing is going to stop this. And it was. And nothing did. But it made the Super Bowl a denouement much very similarly to when for me after the US beat the Soviets 4 to 3 and then still had to finish off Finland to win the gold medal. A lot of people don't remember that the win over the Soviets was not.
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B
To win, was to get into the medal game. Yeah.
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A
And then, and then after the fact to beat Finland was, was it felt like denouement. So here's my list. Honorable mention. The 37 to 7 lost to Dallas on December 26, 1977. 77 was one of the first years I really remember, you know, watching every game.
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Eight years old, second grade.
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Yes. And attending most home games. And that was. I know we, we had our. That's when we had tickets at like the 39 yard line at that point in, in pre redone north end zone, Soldier Field. And we went to a lot of games and the Bears made the playoffs at 9 and 5, the 14 game season. And the Cowboys just beat the piss out of him, just 37 to 7. And they ran and ran and ran and ran. And they intercepted half the passes that Avellini threw. Bob Avellini had four interceptions, threw for 177 yards. Roger Staubach only needed 13 pass attempts because of what they did in their run game. Tony Dorsett had 85 yards. Robert Newhouse had 80 yards rushing. Doug Dennison had 40 yards rushing. Staubach himself had 25 yards rushing. They really didn't need to do much and it Was so obvious that the Bears were completely out of their element. And it was my first experience as an 8 year old. Just sort of understanding that how quickly things come to an end in a better team proves its mettle in that way. That's an honorable mention. Also honorable mention. Pat Dunsmore's touchdown catch from Walter Payton, December 30th of 1984. Steve Fuller had taken over for the injured Jim McMahon. That was when we started to realize the Bears were getting good. McMahon of course had the lacerated kidney in the Raiders game and in they went to the playoffs and it was an option pass from Walter Payton to Pat Dunsmore. That was the deciding, the significant score that if memory holds and I remember where I was and with whom, I was watching when that happened.
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B
And he had a lacerated kidney.
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Yes. Oh, McMahon did. Lacerated kidney. No, it was not.
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B
It was out of soaked in beer and Burbage.
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No, it was not. It was, it was a lacerated kitty. That happened in the Raiders game that The Bears won 17 to 6. I was there for that one too. That was. That's the most violent football game I've ever seen in my life. Nothing will ever come close. It was, it was just carnage, destruction and blood and gore and it was so awesome. The I mentioned the Steve Smith game is honorable mention. Two more honorable mentions. 1. January 19, 2002 Hugh Douglas Sacks Jim Miller. Oh yeah, that was the defining moment of that game where the 13 and 3 Dick Jaron bears had made it into the playoffs in this magical year with so many cool things happening and you had Ted Washington and Keith Traylor and 700 pounds of ass in the middle of the defense and nothing mattered. Once you ran into a bed better team and there were Bears fans angry that oh, that should have been a penalty. What is Hugh Douglas doing to poor Jim Miller? Well, he's knocking them out of the playoffs because they weren't as good. And I just remember that particular moment from that game as I do lastly, January 23rd of 2011, what you called the Jay Cutler knee injury game. I remember that as something else. I remember that as the BJ Raji intercepts Caleb Haney and rumbles 18 yards for the score. That poor Caleb Haney not ready for the moment at all was brought in because Cutler couldn't go. And somehow Caleb Haney didn't see a 400 pound nose tackle. I don't know how you can not see BJ Raji when like the International Space station can see him now going to the grocery store.
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B
He's deceptively large, Dan.
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Is that what it is? Yeah, well, that was, that was my other honorable mention. The number 10 memory that I have in Bears playoffs. Walter Payton's fumble on the opening drive of Super Bowl 20. Oh, yeah, that. Peyton ran in to number 60, Garen Varys. And the ball came free and it was recovered by the Patriots and the drive stalled, but Tony Franklin kicked a field goal and the Bears were losing to start the Super Bowl. And it didn't last long. But I'll never forget, that was my first confrontation with the mere possibility the Bears could lose. It was terrifying. Absolutely, unforgettably terrifying. To go from the high of the way that that previous game ended my number one memory and have the feeling at the pit of your stomach that oh no, could this be happening? Could this all, could this all not happen the way we think and remember being forced to begin to think that. And it was bad, but that was number 10. Everything ended up okay. Number 9. January 6, 1985. The shutout lost to San Francisco after that victory over the Washington team. And San Francisco not only outclassed them and beat them terribly, but remember how they finished that game? Remember what they did? Bill Walsh put Guy McIntyre in the backfield as a taunt. They put a fat guy in the backfield. And I didn't feel quite as strongly as Mike Ditka, but it bothered me that they were clowning on the Bears. Look what we can do to you. We've so thoroughly vanquished you that we can screw around and do this. And that ended up being the catalyst that birthed a legend. So that is number nine, number eight. January 23rd, 1979. And this was as a 10 year old like the, where I knew everything about everything with that team. I knew all the, I had the football cards and you know, filling up shoe boxes everywhere. I followed every game. The Bears ended up going 10 and 6 and they're in the wild card game against the Eagles. I believe it was the first play of the second half. The Bears were down, what, 17. The Bears are winning 17 to 10. And then in the second half, Walter Payton breaks free for an 84 yard run down to the one yard line. He was caught at the one and he squirted free. He shed a tackler and he runs 84 yards. But Brian Bashnagal was flagged for illegal motion. The run was called back and my 10 year old heart sank. And it was the start of a collapse by the Bears when Harold Carmichael scored on a 29 yard pass from Ron Jaworski, the very same kicker, Tony Franklin kicks the extra point. Then Billy Campfield a 63 yard pass from Ron Jaworski in the fourth quarter and that was it. But it all came down the whole. The wind went out of their sails when that run was called back.
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B
It's interesting, you know who the. The Bears in their franchise history have played the most in the postseason?
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Is it the Eagles?
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It's not the Eagles, it's the Giants. But it's. I'm glad you said that because I think there have been more Eagles games, like in our lifetime of watching as fans in the postseason than any other team.
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Yeah, interesting.
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B
Yeah, Eagles and Niners have always popped up, but yeah, they've played the Giants eight times in the postseason, the most.
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So that was number eight, number seven for me. As mentioned, the NFC championship in 1989, the end, which should have been the end of Bear weather. That was not memory number six. January 3, 1987. This was the year after they had won the Super Bowl. We thought this was going to be the start of another run because they were the Bears. And even with Buddy Ryan gone, the Vince Tobin defensive philosophy that was more bend but not break, actually had a better statistical season than 1985. But Art Monk ruined everything. Art Monk had two touchdowns from Jay Schrader. And it wasn't just the fact that he had two touchdowns. It was the fact that this was the. The first real consistent exposure of the Bears heavy blitzing scheme. And in large part it was cornerbacks on an island. And one of those cornerbacks was Vesty Jackson, who became a bear in 1987. And why, why was Vesty Jackson out there? If you remember, at the end of Super Bowl 20, the Bears special teams coordinator Steve Kayser called for a fake on a return that had starting cornerback Les Frazier on the field. And Les Frazier tore up his knee on a stupid fake kick return. That didn't have to happen. There was no reason for him to be on the field. So Leslie Frazier missed the year because he was hurt in the super bowl and Vesty Jackson was on the field. And it created a strategy that allowed Washington to target Bears cornerbacks one on one as they were trying to practice. It was just get the ball out quickly, let Art Monk make a play, and he did. And that hurt. That was number six, number five, the infamous double doink, number four. We go back to January 5, 1986. People will say that the winds were whipping around Soldier Field when they played the Giants that day, but the wind was Only listed officially at 16mph, but some magical gust when punter Shawn Landetta released the ball to merely drop it to his punting foot. The ball was blown away enough that Sean Lennon did a really good NFL punter, whiffed. He missed the ball completely on his own five yard line, and Sean Gale picked it up and scored. And I don't know how that ever happened. I don't. I don't. We still don't know exactly what or why, but it did. And the. The other play I remember powerfully from that game was the Gary Fencick sack of Phil, which was to this day the best timing of a snap count that nobody saw coming. And that was the first Bears playoff victory in their super bowl championship season. Number three, the Devin Hester kickoff return in the Super Bowl. Number two. And maybe my. My. And in. In some ways my favorite memory, despite the fact that I don't. I didn't really see anything thing. And that's the Fog bowl. This was December 31st of 1988, and the Bears were playing the Eagles. So I happened to be in Acapulco at the time. We were terrified. Where are we going to see the game? In the house we were renting, we didn't have at the time. There was no satellite dish. There was no way of getting the game. We weren't certain we were going to be able to see it. So the day before, my cousins and my friend Andy and I went into town to scout possible viewing locations. And we found one and we confirmed it at this little kind of nothing bar. It was not a big fancy club. It was a bar and restaurant called Roc y Ambergesas. That was the name of it. Rock and Hamburgers.
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B
Rock and Hamburgers.
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A
Rock and. Not Rock and Hamburgers. Rock and Hamburgers. Very straightforward name. And we confirmed they would have Los Osos de Chicago Football Americano a key. So we went. We got there early. And the reason it's memorable, obviously we couldn't see anything that was happening in the game. We had the entire place to ourselves. It was an. An indoor, outdoor, tiny little kind of rundown bar. Like I say, not fancy. But the TVs were great. And they were one, not one dollar. Whatever it was, the Coronas were ice cold in frosted glasses. They were cheap to the point of being free. The food was spectacular. And it was like we had a private party there to watch that Bears game. What we could see of that Bears game. And they ended up winning. And Dennis McKinnon, our guy, silky D, was catching Passes. And that was my, My memory of the Fog bowl was nothing but glorious.
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B
It was funny. I was, I was 15 for that game. And it's. I talked my mom into letting me have a bunch of buddies over to have like a, you know, viewing party and hang out. And so she got all the snacks and all the drinks and all the stuff we needed and it was a complete bust of a party.
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A
Why?
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B
Well, it was still fun, obviously, but not being able to see the game that just.
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A
I know, but everybody, it's one of those things where everybody knows they're witnessing something. Yeah, everybody knew like the novelty of it. It sucked obviously, to not be able to see a playoff game, but here I am remembering it and now I've aged. I've aged to the point where I don't. I don't really like weather games all that much. But younger me wasn't bothered, probably because of the ice cold, expensive corona. The curl that was really helping everything. And again, number one, the Wilbur Marshall 52 yard return on January 12th of 1986. And that's my list.
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B
Nice.
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A
I love it.
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B
Very good. Good stuff. Good stuff.
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A
Now, when do we play football? I'm ready.
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B
Well, where are we at here? So we're a day away. How many hours away? What do we got? We got 30 hours to go, buddy.
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A
I'm ready. So I've got to figure this out too. Like I say, my. Somewhere in my parents house is my wool original Bears sweater. The, the, that one. That wool sweater. The Ditka sweater. The Ditka super bowl sweater. If the, if the Bears win, I've got to get it and I've got to wear it.
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B
Yeah, I think you should have it before tomorrow's game.
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A
I'm not driving all up there to get it.
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B
You should have it. If you really cared about the bear season, you'd wear it. If you are a true fan, if you really wanted the Bears to beat the packers, you would have it for tomorrow's game.
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A
For the game.
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B
Yeah.
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A
I got to go up there and get it.
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B
It's going to be. It's a beautiful day today out, Dan. I think you find a fishing hole and you do some fishing. You get your sweater. Yeah. It's gonna be a great day. You need to be outside fishing today. It's gonna be 60 degrees, buddy.
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A
It's a sweater. I could be like El Wapo. I don't even know if it's. It fits me.
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B
I, I doesn't matter.
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A
I don't even. I'm not even 100 it could be eaten by moths. I don't know.
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B
Doesn't matter. You gotta find it.
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A
If you.
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B
If you truly care about the bear season, you'd go find out.
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A
All right, I'm gonna call them when we get done and I'm gonna ask if it's up there because they'll figure it out if it's. If it's there. Maybe I'll see if I get it.
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B
Okay.
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A
Damn it.
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B
All right, let's do picks.
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A
I should.
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B
I'm excited about my picks.
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I shouldn't have said anything. Okay, yes. Let's do our DBU picks that are brought to you by my bookie. So I already have one on the record for this game. On Monday, I took a DJ Moore touchdown at. At 320 to 1. The odds have actually gone up in my favor. It's 350 to 1. Three point. It's plus 350. I should say so. It's 3.5 to 1 are the odds on a DJ Moore touchdown down. I'm going to add something to that. The over under for Cole commit receiving yards on my bookie is 13.5. I will take the over Cole Comet over 13 and a half receiving yards for this game.
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All right. That's great. I have a. So I looked at all. All six playoff games. I have a five team parlay that I'm playing, but you can do what you want with these picks. The only game I stayed away from was the Eagles 49ers because I just couldn't get a good, good feel for it. Couldn't get a good read on it. So I left that one alone. But I am taking the Bears plus one, the Panthers plus ten and a half. The Jag, you're getting ten and a half. Yes, I'm taking all ten and a half. The Jaguars plus one against the Bills. I am taking the Pats minus three and a half. So Patriots minus three and a half against the Chargers and the Texans minus three against the Steelers. So Bears plus one. Panthers plus ten and a half. Jags plus one. Pats minus three and a half. Texans minus three. Staying away from Eagles 49ers. You do what you want with those. I'm putting all five together for a five team parlay.
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A
Wow. And what would that pay?
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B
Well, I don't want to say what the. Okay. What the numbers are, what I did.
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A
All right.
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B
Where it leads. Okay.
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A
I just. I just wonder what we're talking about here because that's. That sounds like a big number to me.
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B
It is a big number.
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I'M no expert, it just sounds like a big number. Wow. DBU picks brought to you by my bookie. Lock in your picks. Now with my bookie, bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. And the football playoffs are here. My bookie is where you turn bets into bankroll. Everybody is betting in the NFL's endures die mode. College football is down to. Well, they're at three teams right now and then the super bowl is going to be coming. So if there's ever a time to get in the game, it's right now. Hell, Maddie just gave you a five team parlay you can jump on and my no, you can if you want. My bookie makes it incredibly easy to play. It's one account, it's one wallet. And then wherever you're comfortable betting the spread or live betting the second half in commercials, you can even hit the casino. It's all the same account. It's all one place. You've got the power, right at my bookie. When you are armed with the promo code DBU, you get something for it. Your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, you got a bet back bonus token. You can run it back so then you're not just watching the playoffs, you're making them pay. Bet on anything, anytime, anywhere. Only at my bookie. That will do it for Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered. Brought to you in partnership with my bookie and by our good friends at Chicago. Window guys, Russ Armstrong and his crew at 847-302-9171 and it's ChicagoNowinNowGuys.com Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports.