WEBVTT - All Access: Pompei, Pierson talk Bears 100 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.519 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.560 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.560 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.239 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.959 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.959 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:30.160 Physical Therapy and Art Van Furniture in Mattress. Hello again, everybody. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.560 Jeff Jonnyac along with Tom Fayer and another edition of 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.000 Bears All Access for coming to you from P ANDC 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.600 Studio at Hallis Halls. The Bears wrap up the bourbon 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.400 a portion of their training camp and are now back 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.240 in the building and ready to practice tomorrow. We are 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.280 going to look at the Bears Centennial scrapbook tonight with 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.520 two Hall of Fame writers, the great Don Pearson now 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.840 in retirement and enjoy himself, and the guy who's still working, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.680 Damn Pompey. Well, you know you're nipping at his heels, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.760 but you're still churning out KYLEA minches so a way 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.360 to go working just moments before I started the show. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.160 As a matter of fact, now I appreciate you coming 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.959 to halla sauce. We take a look at this book 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.000 one more time, but before we do that, just a 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.520 quick talk about training camp wrapping up and what was accomplished. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.360 You know, I think it was more of accomplishing with 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.959 expectations because last year you didn't know what the expectations were, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.520 and you didn't know what you were going to accomplish 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.160 because we didn't know a lot about Matt and Maggie 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.880 his staff and the way everything was gonna kind of, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.760 you know, fit together. And then when you look at 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.760 the end result, I think they went into training camp 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.040 this year with as high as expectations as you guys 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.880 were both here in eighty four, probably the highest expectations 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.319 since eighty five. I agree with that. I don't remember 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.680 any time it's been this high. I'm not sure it 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.640 was eighty four, eighty five, I'm telling you, you really 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.640 think so, it's just off the charts. I think, yeah, Well, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.200 the fans who turned out will verify that because the 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.400 last practice that was open to the public almost ten 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.000 thousand fans, So they drew very well over the course 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.880 or training camp. Many days were you there a couple? Yeah, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.400 A couple of days? Yeah, what was your opinion. Well, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.400 you know, I thought the defense just looks outstanding. I mean, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.840 if it could be better than last year, it might 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.799 have taken a step up. Now, you know, I think 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.040 there's some areas where the depth is questionable, where you 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.120 don't want to get injuries because that could be a big, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.200 big deal. But boy, the starting unit just looks unbelievable. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.600 And I think, you know, people were somewhat concerned about 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.120 a drop off with Vic Fangio being gone, and I 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.320 don't see that as being a possibility. But you know, Dan, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.280 the national media doesn't seem to be as hyped on 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.560 the Bears as you know, you listen to different shows, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.920 you see them and stuff, and it just their expectations 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.040 aren't as much as us are the people that have 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.839 come out to see the Bears, or even the people 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.240 that have been able to witness practices such as yourself. Well, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:53.080 you know, I think if you look at the team 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.040 from a distance, you see, you know, you see questions 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.880 still about Mitch Trubisky, right, you see people having some 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.960 skepticism whether or not he's going to be a quarterback 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.080 who could win games for you consistently when he has to. Uh, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.680 you see an unsettled kicking situation. Uh, and then you 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.760 wonder if the team can stay as healthy as it 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.000 did last year, because that was the healthiest Bears team 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.880 that we've seen. And when was the last time you 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.480 guys have seen a team a Bears team that healthy. Uh? 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.799 You can you think back that far? I mean no, no, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.560 long time, long time you even think of Super Bowl? 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.960 You lose Mike Brown and Tommy Harris. Well, they were 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.120 they were, they were healthy before that point that that 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.320 kind of got him there, right, but then in the 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:36.200 game itself they were without there. Well, Don, was the 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.720 history that you've been around the NFL? And Dan, are 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.800 you okay with the modern day playing of in the 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.680 preseason games? Because back in the day, you were covering 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.320 starters in every preseason game. Seven games sometimes? Can you 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.160 imagine that half a season and ridiculous and the and 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.760 the regulars are playing. But another fact, But back then, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.000 did you think it was ridiculous? Then I'll tell you what. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.920 Back then, when they're playing seven games, sometimes these guys 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.320 really were getting himself ship. Yeah, there weren't the OTAs. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.120 The guys weren't working out all year, they were working 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.360 separate jobs, so they would come into camp literally out 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.960 of shape and have to get themselves in shape. So 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.600 it wasn't that big a deal to play seven games. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.720 Well seven games is a big deal because that's when 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.279 they would play in a college All Star games. So 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.960 but in six games, you know, that's a lot. Well, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:22.920 you know, and the other thing Tom could speak to this, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.000 guys are getting injured more today than they ever were 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.840 back then. It seems like now. Sometimes back then they 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.000 injuries were more catastrophic. You know, you had the injuries 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.200 that ended careers, it seemed more frequently. But boy, you 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.400 see more, you know, soft tissue injuries now it seems 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.760 like than ever before. You know, it makes injuries nowadays 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.680 in training camp catastrophic. Is when we went to training 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.720 camp back in the eighties and stuff, you had an 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.200 unlimited roster. So you were a training camp with one 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.360 hundred and twenty one hundred and thirty guys a time. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.920 So if a guy got hurt, there's ten guys standing 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.120 behind them that eventually you're gonna find one of them. Nowadays, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.680 there's ninety guys. Ten of those guys are going to 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.200 be on a practice squad and then the rest of them, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.080 you know, it's you just hope there isn't injuries because 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.080 they are catastrophic. Then I would like to see the 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.880 roster has expanded a little bit. I've got a question 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.160 going back to when you were talking about the transition 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.000 of defensive coordinators. Yeah, you will remember this time, and 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.120 I haven't seen this much about it, But when Buddy 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.080 left in nineteen eighty five and Vince Tobin came in 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:31.520 in nineteen eighty six, although team everybody loved Buddy and 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.000 everybody was worried about there's going to be a drop off, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.160 And I remember the team, the defensive players saying, hey, look, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.520 we're gonna play harder than we've ever played before. You 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.920 know why, because if there's a drop off, Buddy's gonna 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.120 get all the credit. Seriously, and the players we want 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.440 to show everybody that the players. I mean, I think 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.719 the players today, if it's not public, I bet they're 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.080 saying the same thing. They all love Vic, they love 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.599 Vic Vangield. They lived what he did. But if they'd 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.640 have a drop off, Vick is gonna get all the credit. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.760 They don't want Vick to get all of credit. But 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.320 you know that that's the truth. Yea, it is what happened. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.440 You know, the guy's an important leadership roles when you 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.240 talk about fence Nick and you talk about Singletary and 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.599 Hampton in McMichael, and it's the whole crew of guys, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.839 but you know they're they're similar leadership on this defense. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.279 You know, you got Danny Trevathan and then you you 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.480 have what Khalil Mack has brought along and what Roquan 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.360 is developing into in the influence of Keem Hicks on 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.440 the entire defensive line and the most underrated of all 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.120 Eddie Jacks, right, But you know he's such a young guy, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.120 but he's a loud voice in there. You would be surprised. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.679 Well think he's he's um had the best training camp 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.560 of any you know, one of all the defensive players. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.240 I think he's the You had one of the best 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.760 training camps I've seen of a young guy rebounding from 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.440 one year to the name he got He got tempt 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.960 there's a w BBM practice ball for the entirety of 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.960 training camp. You could make a case for Prince Mugamar. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.520 You can make a case every snap for Khalil Mack, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.200 and you certainly can make a case for all Kan 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.800 Smith it is a name defense. Now across the board. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.480 You got guys on there that our top one hundred 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.040 players used to be top one hundred players. You got 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.160 guys with tremendous stats now coming out from last season. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.680 So it's really a name defense requiring a nickname at 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.320 some point, I would think, right, you know, to me, 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:29.119 the bigger issue, as opposed to the defensive players being 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.200 motivated by the transition of defensive coordinators, is what kind 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.520 of buttons is put out I'm going to push on 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.880 game day and his game plans and how is that 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.560 going to be different? And that's something that we really, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.080 we really don't know yet. We have no idea how 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.880 you guys might have a little bit of a better 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.640 idea from being able to observe up close and watching 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.440 some of the tape for the practices. I think it's 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.560 going to be an aggressive unit, man, and I think 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.240 they're gonna love it. I think the player you're gonna 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.480 love it. You think of the personalities of the four 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.600 defensive coordinators, it Vic Fangio and Buddy Ryan. There's similarities 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.280 between a little cantankerous in front of the media and 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.080 they're going to answer you, not always the way you 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.640 want to hear it, the way they want to say it. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.000 And we don't know a lot about coach Pagano yet, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.000 how he's gonna be at the podium on during the 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.200 game weeks in the regular season. But Vince Toben was 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.120 a little bit um, you know, he was a little 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.040 bit mellower than than what Buddy Ryan was and the 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.440 and the way he you know, got into the faces 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.040 of the players and stuff. One thing I think, though, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.800 one little difference is that you know, the players in 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:35.120 nineteen eighty six and the Vince Toben era, you know, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.920 they were still loyal to Buddy. You know, they loved 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.920 Buddy and he was always going to be their guy, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.000 right And Vince was kind of you as the outsider 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.040 who never really was quite accepted the way that Buddy was. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.960 Pagano is already I think you love and you know, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.480 he's just you can't not love that guy if you're 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.600 playing for him. And that's been his history, and that's 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.080 going to be a difference from what we're talking about 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.360 the eighties. Pompey Don Pearson joining us as we will 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.679 now begin our look at the centennial scrapbook that they 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.440 put together over months and months of research. We've talked 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.720 about it on several occasions with these gentlemen, once training 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.640 Camp with Dan Pompey, once Indicator with Don Pearson, and 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.040 also at the one hundred celebrations, So a lot of 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.920 discussion about it. It's a great book. Go and get it. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.160 Go to the Bear's website, buy it. It's great to 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.720 have in your family to pass down through generations because 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.439 it's all there, it's all encompassed the one hundred year 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.080 history of the Chicago Bears with Paul's Orang, Our engineer 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.200 Jordan tread Up, our producer. This is Bears All Access 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.920 brought to you by IGS Energy on Chicago Sports Radio 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.680 six seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.679 brought to you by IGS Energy at proud partner of 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.680 the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.520 products to over one million customers across the country. Learn 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.280 more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joning, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.480 Act Tom there with our guests, the Hall of Fame 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:01.240 writers Dan Pompey and Don Pearson. They authored the Centennial 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.360 scrap Book, which is going to be the bulk of 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.800 our discussion here on this week's Bears All Access and 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.960 we're coming to you from P ANDC Studios at Hollis Hall. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.920 And every time we visit, I always say, okay, what's 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.040 being talked about the book? Now several weeks after we 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.720 asked you these these questions before. So it's when people 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.480 get it, they have their own opinions about, you know, where, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.080 for example, the player rankings are, or they it jogs 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.880 their memory about. Tom brought up something the other day 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.000 and we found out a little more about who was 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.840 the presenter for George Hallis at the Hall of Fame, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.400 which we didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe you guys knew, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.679 did you guys know? I know, but I'm not sure 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.760 I could bring it up right now. Oh okay, Well 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.480 I don't know why that would be the case. But 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.480 Tom there found out and he's got the info. But 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.120 it's it's stuff like that, you know, he wasn't there, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:57.000 did the presenter? He was George George when he wanted 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.680 into the Hall of Fame. The Bears were playing out 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.480 all okay a game I think in New Orleans September seventh, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.680 nineteen sixty three, David Lawrence was as presenter who was 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:15.120 a politician, of of or advisor to Kennedy. I believe 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.640 it was Wow. I'll tell you what. It wasn't as 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.319 big a deal in nineteen sixty. But you know, if 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.199 you think of probably the most the most important inductee 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.520 into the history of the Hall of Fame, it is 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.360 George Hallis. You know, so that's a just I you know, 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.280 I was sitting there and I was just was curious. Well, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.280 the thing is, that was obviously the first year of 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.480 the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It'd be like if 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.599 you started something today and said, yeah, we're going to 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.040 give an award to somebody, and you know, it didn't 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.560 have the recognition that it has now. We didn't understand 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.040 what the Pro Football Hall of Fame would come to 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.920 represent at that point. So obviously if we did know, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.400 they would have arranged it so that Hellis would have 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.200 been there and it would have been a much bigger 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.400 deal in his life. Well, what he accomplished over the 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:05.959 course to the rest of the time and what has 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.040 happened since over these uh many years, is something else. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.280 And you guys captured it in great detail. As you 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.560 continue to think about what you guys accomplished here what 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.839 resonates with you about what you guys accomplished and putting 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.440 this thing together. I think it's just to remind people 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.240 of the different aspects that the Bears of football, that 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.439 the Bears have touched throughout the years, and that's why 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.880 we set it up in this structure. Nobody has rivalries 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.960 like the Bears do. I mean, I had somebody who 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.520 was reading it the other day and they read the 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.600 whole I think they might have been a fan of 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.000 that team up north, but you read the whole thing, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.120 which is fascinated by the by remembering some of these 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.439 these old games, and nobody has the kind of the Bear. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.680 The Bears and the Cardinals are the oldest rivalry who 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.640 have played the most games. The Bears and the Packers, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.920 who've played the second most games in the NFL, Bears 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.520 and the Alliance. No, not everybody knows that. So I 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.080 think just to remind people of the impact that the 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.160 Bears have had and so many and so many aspects 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.360 of the of the game. Well, and to Don's credit, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.120 with the rivalries, you know, we started out the book, uh, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.480 not even thinking of highlighting the rivalries, and as Don 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.880 started digging with some of these things and looking at well, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.960 he said, you know, how can we ignore you know, yeah, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.800 we were going to write about the Bears and the packers, right, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.680 but then he said, well, how can we ignore the 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.280 Bears and the giants, the Bears and the forty nine ers, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.599 the Bears and the Redskins. Yeah, and you know, the 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.880 section about the rivalries kept growing and growing and growing, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.600 and Don just kept digging further and further. Was there 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.760 a lot left on the cutting room floor from the 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.520 rival reach after then? Pretty much get it all in. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.720 We we got as much in as I think we 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.680 we we wanted to. Uh. That was remarkable about the book, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.040 I think, and it's to the credit John Vaselli and 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.040 the designer, and Mark Vansell, the producer, and Scott Hagel 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.440 the Bears to be able to accommodate us, because I'm 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.000 not sure. We kept asking how long do you want 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.360 this story? How many pages is the book going to be? 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.199 And it did seem to keep expanding, And for that, yeah, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.200 they hardly cut anything. We kept We kept waiting at 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.840 the end to say, oh, yeah, half of your copies 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.640 on the floor. But it didn't. It didn't happen that way. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.800 I mean so you did a lot, so not a 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.080 lot was left out, no period. Absolutely, I mean, could 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.920 we have done more. Absolutely. You know. One of the 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.320 things we talked about early on that we didn't do 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.640 was a chapter on the broadcasters, for instance. I thought 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.760 that would have been fascinating. You know, you look at 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.960 the history of the Bears broadcasters going back, I mean, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.640 got a couple of pretty good guys. Now, uh, you know, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.240 you go back to the Wayne Larvy days. You know, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.640 Red Grange was broadcaster for the Bears for many men. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.840 You guys know the history probably better than house brick 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.640 house and cups in it U George Connor for many years. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.080 So you know, that was something that we could have done. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.760 One of the things that we've we've thought about, I 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.240 think since too. You know, we did the top one 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.200 hundred players. We just did it in list for him. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.360 Chicago Tribune has done a very good job. I've thought 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.480 of giving a biography of each player. That's something we 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.760 could have. I mean, you know, there was you could 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.360 have gone on and on. This book could have been 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.800 an encyclopedia. I added up the words. Had we've done 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.880 a biography of everybody, who would have been the eighty 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.280 thousand words. We ended up with really hundred players, right, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.080 because you just wouldn't be throwing statistic you'd be digging 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.760 to find out, okay, a little bit more about each 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.479 because that's in your nature. Both of you guys are storytellers. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.080 That that could be, that could be a second a 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.800 second printing. Maybe yuh, we know another way. We hope, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.880 we hope for a second printing up. Matt and Nagy said, yeah, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 if we do well, maybe he'll have an add endom. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.160 I said, no, Matt, it won't be at the end 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.480 of the book. He'll be a new beginning. And you 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.240 know that's a funny story. We might be, but we 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.720 relate our deadline or soft deadline. Dan and I are 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.200 not used to this, were used to deadlines every single day. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.480 But was in the middle of the last season. So 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.360 a year ago in the summer, we looked around, we 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.000 were talking and we said, what if the Bears go 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:21.560 to the Super Bowl? And everybody laughed. So they win 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.840 the division and we emailed each other and say, hey, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.040 as we were saying what if they won the super Bowl? 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.560 So we had to turn around and add stuff about 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.920 the twenty eighteen season, and I think we did a 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.320 pretty good job of highlighting that twenty eighteen season. They're 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.760 looking ahead, go ahead, And even some of the chapters 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.520 we had written about the past, we found ways to 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.200 kind of freshen them up or tie them into something 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.560 that was happening current currently with the team, or a 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.040 current player if there was a way to work that 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.400 player in. But are you brought up, Maggie, because interests 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:01.840 me is when you look at some of the other 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.440 organizations around the NFL and have a shorter history of 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.120 the Bears, they have an unbelievable amount of head coaches. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.960 The Bears don't have that many head coaches. Did you 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.560 ever think about ranking the head the head coaches for 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.360 the Bears? And if you did, is there an obvious 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.359 number one? And if George Hallis is the obvious number one, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:25.280 who would be number two? What would be the obvious Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, obvious? 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:34.639 N right? Uh, all right? Wasn't argument. Wasn't was Patty 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.800 Driscoll because was he a good head coach? Or he 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.480 was on a head coach for two years so he 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:45.440 wouldn't have You know, the Hallis took three he retired 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:50.280 three different times and appointed interim coaches. So after Hallis 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.919 and Dicken and Lovey, it would have been pretty pretty 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.959 tough to to get to ten. I think doesn't surprise 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.000 you though, there's so few head coaches in the history 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.520 well the Chicago Bear. When you have one guy that 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.119 did forty of the hundred years and he hasn't been 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.000 around for forty years, Yeah, it's it's probably not a surprising, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.560 you know, to think that they didn't have as many. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.320 You compare it to the Cardinals at the team across 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.560 town and they they had probably more ex Bear head 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.680 coaches than the Bears. Yeah, they kept tapping that well. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.399 Thirty seven and there they kept tapping that well. With 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.720 Chicago ties to Dick McCann, Hall of Fame Award winning writers, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.679 Dan pomp pay Don Pearson our guest today as we 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.239 look at the Bears Centennial scrapbook, take another break here 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.720 on Bears All Access. 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That's the way to 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.720 get it, and hopefully it's the only way to get it, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.240 the only way to get it, and get it your 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.359 piece of Bears history. There's so much in there that 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.359 you're going to enjoy from just the way these guys 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.120 tell the story. It's not chronological, and we talked about that. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.840 I think that's a significant part of this book because 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.159 you could easily have done it that way, but the 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.440 way it's paired with the day to day historical impact 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.280 of life in general and this world, I think ties 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.840 it all together very nicely. And then you can type 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.679 groups of players together very nicely, and I think that 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.639 also played well in the actual one hundred year celebration 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.879 in Rosemont in June when we had groups of players together. 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.520 I was taken by a couple of things it happened 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.680 there that and you can read the book to find 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.000 out more about these guys. But well, when Eddie Jackson 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.320 was sitting in the safety seminar as we had the 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.800 round table of discussion we had with Doug Plank and 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:16.520 Mike Brown, you know, is a young hip guy looking 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.760 at these guys tell stories, and he was just he 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.000 go it just kept looking like, wow, did that really 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.280 have the Doug Plank hit people that way all the time, 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.880 and Mike Brown's emotion, the tears. I mean that those 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.400 are things that left an impression on a young guy 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.040 like Eddie Jackson, you know. Jeff's what's interesting is the 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.439 Bears have got all this great history, you know, hundred 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.200 years of history. They've got more history than any more 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:44.280