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Speaker 1: as we come to from Havasa, Jeff Joniac along with
Speaker 1: Tom Thair and man a packed weekend coming up. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've had a good time getting ready for the Bears
Speaker 1: one hundred celebration. It's significant in its team history, significant
Speaker 1: to everybody in the building getting ready for it. A
Speaker 1: lot of work has been put in from every single
Speaker 1: department for you, the fans who are coming out. We
Speaker 1: invite you to still get a ticket, come out and
Speaker 1: enjoy the opening festivities Tomorrow night, then Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: Lots to do in the big Convention Center in Rosemont.
Speaker 1: It is all blue and orange and it looks great.
Speaker 1: The stage, the video screens, time and a lot of
Speaker 1: even active stuff for fans and lots of great conversation
Speaker 1: about Bears history. Well, the thing for the Bears fans,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to see the ex players, guys that you
Speaker 1: haven't seen in twenty thirty forty years. But the thing
Speaker 1: about it is, as much as you think you know,
Speaker 1: even though you're a lifelong Bears fans, there's a lot
Speaker 1: you don't know. And I never realized this in the
Speaker 1: last few months of doing the preparation for this whole event.
Speaker 1: There's so many things that you learn about the nineteen
Speaker 1: forties football game, about the nineteen sixty three NFL Championship game,
Speaker 1: the different career paths players have taken throughout their life
Speaker 1: and their career. I think it's gonna be so informative.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the excitement is there on a weekly basis
Speaker 1: when you play the games during the regular season, but
Speaker 1: the history of the Bears, and I think we're so
Speaker 1: fortunate to have Virginia McCaskey because she is a lifelong
Speaker 1: experienced Chicago Bear herself and from the volume of information
Speaker 1: that she has understood, been able to absorb and knows
Speaker 1: more than us. It's just incredible that the Bears have
Speaker 1: this opportunity to celebrate the hundred year existence of the
Speaker 1: Bears and the different information they're going to learn from
Speaker 1: the different players of the different eras they're having going
Speaker 1: to have a chance to see an ear about the
Speaker 1: first Lady of sport, Virginia McCaskey, and she's put herself
Speaker 1: out there making herself available doing stories for the papers.
Speaker 1: And O Peyton Manning was at Wrigley Field today and
Speaker 1: sat her down and they did something for his upcoming
Speaker 1: shows on ESPN coming up to make the history come
Speaker 1: alive over the course of the entire season league wide.
Speaker 1: Couldn't actually think of a better guy to do it,
Speaker 1: because he's got a great personality and he really brings
Speaker 1: a lot to the table. And I can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear what they talked about as well. You know, for
Speaker 1: me is being a lifelong Bears fan. I just wish
Speaker 1: I would have been able to see Bears game at
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field, because you know, that's the one thing that
Speaker 1: kind of hangs over you never went you were not, yeah,
Speaker 1: OK and everyone, But I learned a lot about playing
Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field by some of the videos I watched
Speaker 1: from the sixties and stuff. And you think of George
Speaker 1: hallis all the success he had in Wrigley field, got it.
Speaker 1: It would just be a great just another great component
Speaker 1: to being a Bears fan if you could have been
Speaker 1: a part of a Wrigley Field game. This is Bears
Speaker 1: All Access will be joined by Jim Miller as well.
Speaker 1: We also are going to be hearing from Bradley saw
Speaker 1: the Bears new tight end making the move from tackle,
Speaker 1: and Steve McMichael. Hope to have him for a couple
Speaker 1: of segments. You know, we won't have to twist his
Speaker 1: arm to say a few words, that's for sure. It's
Speaker 1: all coming up here on Bears All Access on Chicago
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Speaker 1: Joni Actom there, Jim Miller, How you doing? My friend?
Speaker 1: Who are you talking to? Jim Miller? Friends? All right,
Speaker 1: I know I got big Jim. Here a little echo.
Speaker 1: We're in a little echo right now. And then also
Speaker 1: joined on the phone by Bear's tight end Bradley Soud
Speaker 1: Is it sound comfortable to hear your name attached to
Speaker 1: tight end in twenty nineteen. It's different, It's definitely different
Speaker 1: here in that. But I'm starting to get used to
Speaker 1: this time because, hey, Brad, was there any other time
Speaker 1: throughout your career because you're a good athlete, you're a
Speaker 1: good golfer, you're a good long snapper, and everything else
Speaker 1: that goes along with it, there was there ever a
Speaker 1: time in your career that you work being considered for
Speaker 1: a different position? UM? When I was with the Arizona Cardinals, UM,
Speaker 1: Bruce Arian said he had mentioned to media about UM
Speaker 1: potentially just taking up snap and long snap on flawing
Speaker 1: that out. But I was so I wasn't wasn't quite
Speaker 1: ready to see no pack it in and be a
Speaker 1: long stop with this shit. But yeah, he had mented
Speaker 1: something about it at one time, and actually I've back
Speaker 1: going through with it well, Bradley. In terms of the
Speaker 1: install I guess how in depth was it for for
Speaker 1: the tight end position, in terms of coverages and different routes,
Speaker 1: how they ran against different coverages and for you to
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you're probably always aware of it
Speaker 1: being in the offensive line meeting room and it probably
Speaker 1: interested you. But how much more in depth has it
Speaker 1: been now transitioning into the tight end room. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been. Especially in the passing game has been the
Speaker 1: It's been the biggest biggest challenge for me is figuring out,
Speaker 1: you know, when to do certain things. There's certain coverages
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and um, but as far as
Speaker 1: the run game, I mean, I'm I know everything. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty pretty sharp on that. I kind of went into
Speaker 1: that and knowing everything pretty quickly and then, um, everything,
Speaker 1: everything's inform me. She's been studying the passing game and
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just trying ton of get all
Speaker 1: that down. Bradley saw our guest tonight here on Bears
Speaker 1: All Access coming up later, Steve McMichael, Jeff Jim and
Speaker 1: Tim with you on Bears All Access brought to you
Speaker 1: by IGS Energy. Hey, Brad, when you made that catch
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone last year, was
Speaker 1: that kind of like the instigator of the reasoning why
Speaker 1: they would take a guy with your height and your
Speaker 1: size and even consider the possibility, Because I think it's
Speaker 1: a fantasy for all of us ex offensive linemen to
Speaker 1: think what else could we do? But you went out
Speaker 1: and did it. So, I mean it had to they
Speaker 1: had to keep that in the back of their mind.
Speaker 1: Um that I'm an icing on the cake. But I think, um,
Speaker 1: I always found the way to get into the nagie
Speaker 1: and do so thanks. I know he likes to put
Speaker 1: guys in the game and have a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And UM always made it known that I can throw
Speaker 1: and catch pretty well. So um, so that way maybe
Speaker 1: would he would draw something that for man sure enough
Speaker 1: we did might need you. But um, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think he kind of he kind of seen early
Speaker 1: on and I'm you know, I can do some athletics stuff,
Speaker 1: and but never in my mind I thought I was
Speaker 1: kind of tight end. And then this all season, Um,
Speaker 1: we're going to exit meetings and um we just kind
Speaker 1: of talk about it, and you know we ended up
Speaker 1: falling through with it right here and right here before
Speaker 1: it to lose. So well, the number changes on the jury,
Speaker 1: but he has a number changed in terms of your weight.
Speaker 1: Have you tried to shed a lot that? Are you
Speaker 1: trying to get quicker? I know you're afic athlete. Every
Speaker 1: team you played on, everybody says what a great athlete
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, I've lost twenty one pounds of thirty eight.
Speaker 1: So when next time you see me, I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: a little bit slimmer. Say I'm down twenty I save
Speaker 1: down twenty two pounds a day, and um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go about ten more and get down to about two
Speaker 1: eighty two eighty two seventy eight two eighty somewhere in there. Hey, Brad,
Speaker 1: can you feel a difference when you get in your stance,
Speaker 1: because you know, when you report to training camp you
Speaker 1: got a couple of extra pounds on in the first
Speaker 1: time your belly gets into a stance, you kind of
Speaker 1: feel it after you trimmed down. Is it easier to
Speaker 1: get in a stance? Yeah, it's It's starting to feel
Speaker 1: really interesting. I'm trying. I'm telling its used to that
Speaker 1: being a little bit lighter out there and have a
Speaker 1: lot more energy out there. I really slight once have
Speaker 1: you been better? But I'm able to run around pretty well,
Speaker 1: and like this week, I'm finally started to feel it.
Speaker 1: Us started a movement like really well, and I was, um,
Speaker 1: it just felt different, you know, being able to come
Speaker 1: out of breaks and you know, just that's like the
Speaker 1: lighter I'm getting, the better I'm saying I've already moved
Speaker 1: pretty well, but then you need to be in a
Speaker 1: move at a certain level to play, you know, play
Speaker 1: a skill position in the NFL. And next week that
Speaker 1: one that was when I started really feeling like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm started. I can tell my speed's really good enough.
Speaker 1: Murmur really getting a lot quicker. So that to the
Speaker 1: nutritionus and everything, and like every every day it feels different.
Speaker 1: So um, the lighter I get, the more explosive, more
Speaker 1: athletic I feel. Bradley sal Our guest here on bears
Speaker 1: All Access, kind enough to join us for a little
Speaker 1: bit of time as OTAs are wrapping up this week,
Speaker 1: headed into the veteran mandatory Minicap next week. Done a break,
Speaker 1: but the break will not be a true true break
Speaker 1: for you because the process of drop. What was the
Speaker 1: heaviest you've ever played at? And then what were you
Speaker 1: playing at last year versus where you know you said
Speaker 1: you'd like to lose you know, another ten, So that's
Speaker 1: a thirty plus pound weight drop. What's the process of
Speaker 1: that beyond the obvious? You know, how you're eating, what
Speaker 1: you're eating, and what you're doing in the weight room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my heaviest last year was I got I was around
Speaker 1: three twenty one at one time, and then um, I
Speaker 1: think later on I was down three three fifteen, three twelve.
Speaker 1: Someone knows that used to like to stay And um,
Speaker 1: I mean you should be really disciplined. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's there's no notes, and I do I do a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that people don't see too, like on
Speaker 1: the way, I don't take the weekends off. I make
Speaker 1: sure i'm constantly like light conditioning and um, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, just to keep keep it going, keeping
Speaker 1: the way burning going and stuff like that. So but
Speaker 1: I mean it's something I was asked to do. It's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to do whenever, um, whenever something you
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of want to see. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a something I want to see if I can
Speaker 1: do it night and and when you know, you change
Speaker 1: your position, there's no turning back, like you have to
Speaker 1: get down, so the motivations there or you know, you
Speaker 1: get in down without a job. So so there it's
Speaker 1: it's really hasn't been a struggle, you know, getting it down.
Speaker 1: It's just something I'm really hungry for. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: just have to have to make sure foo because that's
Speaker 1: my position. I'm a tight end, and um, you know
Speaker 1: you have to get down to what a tight end
Speaker 1: looks like if you're you know, if you're going to
Speaker 1: be successful at it. So, um, I want to keep
Speaker 1: my job. I want to play for the Bears. So
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a no, there's no no messing around
Speaker 1: on this. Well, you're a veteran and yesterday Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: was talking about the unselfishness of many players on this
Speaker 1: football team, whether it be adjusting your contracts or being
Speaker 1: open minded about where you know a guy like Rashad
Speaker 1: Coward and moving from defensive line to tackle and trying
Speaker 1: to learn the position. But you're a veteran, You've been
Speaker 1: around this legal while. You've had more experienced than most
Speaker 1: on this team, to be quite frank, and you've had
Speaker 1: success where you've been. Is this a rebirth for you
Speaker 1: in some respects? A little bit? Yeah, it's I told
Speaker 1: my wife the other day, I was poking around. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know what it's it's. Um, it's a new motivation, man.
Speaker 1: I mean you have we have Charles and O'bobby Massew
Speaker 1: and those are two Pro Bowl level type tackles and
Speaker 1: I can either sit there and you know, be the
Speaker 1: swing guy and come in and out, or find a
Speaker 1: way to get out there and help the team. And
Speaker 1: you know, just looking at the situation and looking at
Speaker 1: what our team needed, I felt like I wanted the
Speaker 1: challenge to step up and try to do it for
Speaker 1: our team. And I know we need a hy tight end,
Speaker 1: a bigger tight end that can, um you help out
Speaker 1: our run game and do something the dirty work, and
Speaker 1: um you know, I approached Naggie about it, and he
Speaker 1: was open minded, and you know he was he was
Speaker 1: kind of on board. The two you kind of was
Speaker 1: thinking it, and I was like, yea, let me give it,
Speaker 1: give it a hack like work. I'll work super hardld
Speaker 1: lose all the way. I'll do everything. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's where we need it rather than going outside the building.
Speaker 1: I really know. Yeah, Bro, what about equipment change? Are
Speaker 1: you you know, like high tops to low tops, smaller
Speaker 1: shoulder pads so you can have more movement, any of
Speaker 1: those types of changes for you, very small, very small
Speaker 1: umm cleats, pleats, similar you know, similar cleats, Maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit smaller pad where I can be a little
Speaker 1: more flexible. But I mean, for the most part um.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to keep keep all my stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your last thing for me and pre appreciate your type.
Speaker 1: I think they should have another mini combine for you,
Speaker 1: Dean Pulp and day can they can video it and
Speaker 1: see what your numbers come in at. Now, Bradley, I
Speaker 1: bet you're gonna crush it in your next little combine here.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see what I run the four
Speaker 1: and now I think I do a little better than
Speaker 1: my previous numbers. Hey, so lastly, we'll let you go
Speaker 1: just for clarifications. So this was kind of your idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was both. I mean when
Speaker 1: I said something about us meeting and he um, he
Speaker 1: said that him and Pace had discussed it, discussed it
Speaker 1: before as well, so we were turning on. We joked
Speaker 1: about it and stuff like that. But then you know,
Speaker 1: when Hope you have an exit meeting with a coach,
Speaker 1: you discuss everything like, hey, you what ways canna? Hell?
Speaker 1: Which way is do this out? On the other end,
Speaker 1: we talked about it and and he didn't say for sure,
Speaker 1: and then um he didn't tell. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: really decide until our days and it was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's give it a try. It was like the days
Speaker 1: while we still can and um, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it seems like it's sticking. It's I'm getting kind of
Speaker 1: belting a little roll and um, you know, it has
Speaker 1: been fun so far, well beyond your own performance in
Speaker 1: the trenches. And you play with a nastiness too. You
Speaker 1: are a finisher no matter what you do on the field.
Speaker 1: But watching pre game when you throw that tight spiral, uh,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty far past every now and then that bar
Speaker 1: arm of yours is showing up big times. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot to you, no question, Glad. That's exactly all right.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Bradley. We'll see you tomorrow night
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Looking forward to that, I'd imagine, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great weekend. It's an honored to
Speaker 1: be a Bear, and um, it's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: celebration for everyone in the city and us as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll see you tomorrow and I Bradley saw
Speaker 1: kind enough to join us coming up in a couple
Speaker 1: of segments, we'll be joined by Mango, Steve McMichael, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jony Act, Tom Fair and Jim Miller. With you here,
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Speaker 1: Jony Act, Tom There, Jim Milligan. You said one hundred
Speaker 1: celebrations starting tomorrow with the opening ceremonies, and a lot's
Speaker 1: been written Jim and Tom and Dampomp paying down. Pierson
Speaker 1: did a tremendous job with the Bear scrap Book. It's
Speaker 1: going to be available. You gotta check it out. If
Speaker 1: you're going, you gotta pick this book up. Tons of
Speaker 1: history in there, things you never knew, stories told. It's
Speaker 1: not chronological. It all puts each decade in perspective, link
Speaker 1: to other decades and the overall history of the team,
Speaker 1: but also within the framework of what's going on in
Speaker 1: society at the time. And to me, it was a
Speaker 1: real historical educational I read the entire three hundred eighteen
Speaker 1: page book. Yeah, I did in twelve hours. I don't
Speaker 1: read much, but it was that interesting. And obviously there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures in there. But but Jim just
Speaker 1: dam pomp pays. Subsequently, through the Athletic has been written
Speaker 1: writing some great stories. And Tom had the Gale Sayer's
Speaker 1: story wrote today or a couple days ago, was fascinating.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you read I know Tom read
Speaker 1: it this afternoon. Yeah, you know all all the history
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bear. And like I said, it's about
Speaker 1: the lessons that we're going to learn throughout this hundred
Speaker 1: years celebration because there's a lot of events that have
Speaker 1: taken place that we're not familiar with or are you
Speaker 1: not you need to be reintroduced to. But when when
Speaker 1: the feelings in the thoughts that we have about the
Speaker 1: greatness of Gael Sayers and how beautiful of a runner
Speaker 1: he was and how much he meant to the success
Speaker 1: of the NFL and the Chicago Bears. It is great
Speaker 1: that they've taken the time to make sure there's a
Speaker 1: whole generation of young people that don't really have the
Speaker 1: knowledge of some of the great past Chicago Bears that
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to be reintroduced through pictures
Speaker 1: and stories that you know, they're going to have some
Speaker 1: great lessons that they're going to learn. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at guys like Dan Pompey one, He's he's
Speaker 1: been around for a long time. Who knows the history
Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. And let's be honest, I think
Speaker 1: we understand a lot of the newspapers that are local,
Speaker 1: you know, that have covered the teams, the quote unquote
Speaker 1: beat writers that's changed over the course of the more
Speaker 1: over the last decade. You know, think of writers that
Speaker 1: are no longer in markets that you know, really decide
Speaker 1: who's going to be maybe a Hall of Fame football player.
Speaker 1: A lot of those guys have moved to different cities,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to get the consistency with writers who
Speaker 1: represent the game and understand the history of the game,
Speaker 1: specifically for one team like Dan does. I mean, he
Speaker 1: knows the Chicago Bears and its history. And that's important
Speaker 1: because it you know, for upcoming players, like whether it's
Speaker 1: an old Incrus or who's ever now going to be
Speaker 1: considered for the Hall of fame. That's a big deal
Speaker 1: because that writer has to be fighting for you in
Speaker 1: that room and they need to know the history not
Speaker 1: only of you, but over the organization or like what
Speaker 1: you said right there, Jeff, about the time, the era,
Speaker 1: what was going on surrounding that particular moment on that
Speaker 1: particular team. So Dan Pompeii that guys like him are
Speaker 1: are very vital, uh to to really the history of
Speaker 1: both Dick Mccannhall of Fame writers, and was very much
Speaker 1: involved in charting the history. But you know, that's it's
Speaker 1: a great point that Jim brings up because you don't
Speaker 1: have the beat writers that you would see on an
Speaker 1: everyday basis. And I'm probably more familiar with Don Pierson
Speaker 1: throughout my career because Dan is a more of my peer,
Speaker 1: my age of a guy. And you think of all
Speaker 1: the times that you've had a chance to see those
Speaker 1: guys walk in the locker room every single day and
Speaker 1: you could be in the worst mood of the whole season,
Speaker 1: and you don't want you want to make eye contact
Speaker 1: with them, but somehow they break through that. How come
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that with you back in the because
Speaker 1: I lived my career in a bad mood because of
Speaker 1: the pressure, the pressure that you had put on yourselves,
Speaker 1: that you had your coaches put on you, the head coach,
Speaker 1: the position coach, and just the idea that you wanted
Speaker 1: to be so successful. And if you go out to
Speaker 1: a practice or you're coming off a game field and
Speaker 1: you miss a couple blocks, it's a failure. You could
Speaker 1: have seventy great plays and then you could give up
Speaker 1: a sack and it's the game is not worth anything.
Speaker 1: So these guys that are the writers that see you
Speaker 1: on an everyday basis, they kind of have a chance
Speaker 1: to break through and know you on the other side. Yeah, Jim,
Speaker 1: I always have had great respect for not only veteran announcers,
Speaker 1: guys who've have charted the game in any sport, to
Speaker 1: play by play, guys that had long tenures at their teams,
Speaker 1: but the writers, whether it be baseball writers, NBA writers,
Speaker 1: NFL writers that that were there for decades, and you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta respect it. You gotta respect it because times
Speaker 1: were different than they were able to tell different stories.
Speaker 1: And you know, even now, the Chicago Tribune as a
Speaker 1: treasure trove of historical artifacts covering the Bears, they were there.
Speaker 1: You know, George Hollis wrote columns in the in the
Speaker 1: Chicago Tribune, and they're doing a great job as well
Speaker 1: with their their own one hundred and putting different you know, Spens,
Speaker 1: I don't think Tom likes his ranking in the Tribune
Speaker 1: one hundred. Well, I mean it's true, Well, it's true,
Speaker 1: It truly is the coverage. I respected everybody that I
Speaker 1: had the ability to work with in the media. It
Speaker 1: is a part of the job. I think we all
Speaker 1: understand that, but you do you have to respect it,
Speaker 1: and of course that goes both ways. You know, they've
Speaker 1: they've got a job to do as well. I think
Speaker 1: there's only one person that I really had a run
Speaker 1: in because I just didn't respect him. Because if you're
Speaker 1: not going to put in the time and put in
Speaker 1: the hard work is as Tom mentioned, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: like to think we as players put in our time
Speaker 1: and we put in our hard work. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's too too much to ask. But if you're
Speaker 1: not doing that, you won't be respected. On the other side.
Speaker 1: From the player's side of things, but they are extremely
Speaker 1: vital and not only the history of the league, but
Speaker 1: the coverage to the to the fans that are out there,
Speaker 1: and that pipeline needs to continue. But as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: just social media everything, things have changed how news is
Speaker 1: distributed here here in twenty nineteen. Yeah, but look at it.
Speaker 1: You're you're doing it now yourself. You're helping chart the
Speaker 1: history of the game in your role, and I think
Speaker 1: that's very significant for an ex player. So you're doing
Speaker 1: a great job yourself. All Right, You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: give up a little airtime, fellas, because coming up next,
Speaker 1: hopefully for two segments, the one and Only Steve McMichael
Speaker 1: going to join the program previewing the one hundred and
Speaker 1: walk down Memory Lane a bit with the Madman at
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Tom There still has a man crush on him,
Speaker 1: My favorite player, Steve McMichael Coming up on Bears All
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Speaker 1: Miller Quick snap check. I was at practice yesterday for
Speaker 1: the media availability, and you know, a couple of things
Speaker 1: stick out. Boy, it's a competitive bunch. I'd love to
Speaker 1: have fun. We already knew that, Jim, But just watching
Speaker 1: these guys have fun with each other and how hard
Speaker 1: they practice in shorts, I mean, it's it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of competitiveness going on and there should be.
Speaker 1: I mean that, you know, there's a talented team, and
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows just because the pads aren't aren't on,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you can't get evaluated and with
Speaker 1: the talent. You know, just kind of how this roster
Speaker 1: has been overhauled since Ryan Pace has arrived for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, and every year it's gotten better. From that standpoint.
Speaker 1: Now you look at the new players that have acquired,
Speaker 1: it's just the talent level is through the roof and
Speaker 1: it's going to be competitive because that's the type of
Speaker 1: character traits the Bears are going after. And I kind
Speaker 1: of like some of the stuff they're they're doing with
Speaker 1: the Augusta silence too. They're putting pressure on players, so
Speaker 1: you know, all those type of things make it interesting
Speaker 1: every day out of practice. Yeah, just for the people
Speaker 1: that don't understand what that. You know, it's it's not
Speaker 1: allowing anybody to talk, you know, when these guys are
Speaker 1: trying some kicks a different type of pressure. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just the ball and the foot and hope the
Speaker 1: snaps there and spot's good and you know, just go
Speaker 1: at it. So I know some publications have mocked it
Speaker 1: a little bit, but why not turn over every possible stone,
Speaker 1: put every type of pressure you can possibly imagine, and
Speaker 1: what is an extremely important position and one that they
Speaker 1: want to give right period. Well, you know, there is
Speaker 1: no lollygagging at any type of practice, whether you're a
Speaker 1: no pads, OTA's you know, mandatory mini camp or training camp.
Speaker 1: If you think that you can go out there and
Speaker 1: halfheartedly give less than one hundred percent effort and think
Speaker 1: you're going to be evaluated, honestly, that's going to be
Speaker 1: get you evaluated right out the door. So I like
Speaker 1: every every way they're trying to do this to get
Speaker 1: the get the evaluation right on the kicker and whatever
Speaker 1: they want to call it. I like every challenge they
Speaker 1: put out there, because the hardest thing to do is
Speaker 1: to go out there and perform at a professional level.
Speaker 1: In front of your peers, because if there's crowd noise
Speaker 1: and you miss it, the reaction is going to be
Speaker 1: the same. If there's no crowd noise and you miss it,
Speaker 1: that's where the you know, the finally valuation is going
Speaker 1: to be made. Jim, is there going to be a
Speaker 1: scenario given what happened a year ago? And are they
Speaker 1: going to be the fans intolerant of even one miss
Speaker 1: kick when the regular season happens. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it's one of these three guys who're making or if
Speaker 1: they're bringing a veteran down the road. I mean, is
Speaker 1: that what it's going to be like because we've all
Speaker 1: kind of touched the stove, burned our fingers, and we
Speaker 1: don't you know what to expect, right, I think, well,
Speaker 1: the one thing you don't want to happen. I think
Speaker 1: why coach Naggi's addressing it as aggressively as he can,
Speaker 1: like whether it's this Augusta silence and everything, is because
Speaker 1: you want to have early success, right, you want to
Speaker 1: eliminate that memory as early as you can. And so
Speaker 1: by putting these players in the pressure situations that they are,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you're doing a seven on seven droll.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you say, hey, all right, it's
Speaker 1: time now for a forty three yard you know, field
Speaker 1: goal try. And you put the pressure on right there,
Speaker 1: because it could happen in a moment's notice in a game.
Speaker 1: But he's quiet. Say it's at home, right, Normally it
Speaker 1: is silent in the stadium, at your home field when
Speaker 1: your kickers trying to make the game winner. So you
Speaker 1: try to simulate all these things to make it, as
Speaker 1: you know, to make it the present the situation that's
Speaker 1: going to arrive in a game. Jim, you gotta have
Speaker 1: the early success early because if you don't, it's gonna
Speaker 1: hang over. It's gonna hang over like what has happened
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay buckingeers. Quite frankly, Hey, Jim Marle,
Speaker 1: you can just bring out of retirement the golden toe.
Speaker 1: Steve McMichael has been known to kick a field go
Speaker 1: or too big to shoe. Happen to that old square
Speaker 1: toe shoe, baby, So it's in the Hall of fame. Man, Joe,
Speaker 1: did you did you go? Did you go? Don Cockroft
Speaker 1: and Tom Dempsey? You just go straight on, no sidewinder,
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was straight home. Tommy tried that that
Speaker 1: kicking shoe that I made, all stayed in and Texas
Speaker 1: is in the high school Hall of Fame. Down there,
Speaker 1: longest field goal, Oh boy, forty eight yarder against the
Speaker 1: Texas A and m Aggie's in college forty eight Yeah,
Speaker 1: down right down Broadway station of course, right down Broadway.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I don't know if anybody ever remembers this.
Speaker 1: We're playing a preseason game and there's a kicker out
Speaker 1: there who's trying out for the Bears, and Dicka puts
Speaker 1: Nick Michael out there to kick it, and the kickers
Speaker 1: line up, pushes him aside and goes and get dust
Speaker 1: the kick. Yes, it was like it was like who
Speaker 1: was the kicker? I nobody has any idea. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: if I was on the team, now, if I had
Speaker 1: done that, nobody had ever heard or had to put
Speaker 1: up with. Cody Parkey. Hey man, you know one of
Speaker 1: the things about you is I don't think people understand
Speaker 1: what a great multi sport athlete you were. You're a
Speaker 1: great baseball player. You could kick, You played tight end
Speaker 1: on short yardage and goal line, and then you had
Speaker 1: other responsibilities on extra point and field goal protection. So
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, we talked to Bradley Soul about
Speaker 1: him changing from offensive line to tight end. If you
Speaker 1: were going to go to a different position other than
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, would you Could you have been an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman or a tight end in the NFL? Will tell me?
Speaker 1: You know, we were relatively the same body size. We
Speaker 1: were both undersized or playing inside like we did. Really,
Speaker 1: but man, it would have been tough for us to
Speaker 1: move out to a tackle, wouldn't it. I wasn't a
Speaker 1: defensive end at long lank you like Danton Hampton. That's
Speaker 1: when I knew I was going to have to be
Speaker 1: an overachiever. I got in the huddle and their butts
Speaker 1: hit me in my short ribs. But you know, if
Speaker 1: you're an athlete with balance and and hand eye coordination,
Speaker 1: you can play other sports. Favorite memory for you, Stephen,
Speaker 1: and you know as a Chicago I know, obviously the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sticks out, but you know, I gotta believe
Speaker 1: there are memories even in practice. They just say, you know,
Speaker 1: that's it right there, that the one I will never forget. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: this is what I want to give to you. Baby.
Speaker 1: You can thank my defense for being able to sit
Speaker 1: there right now. And form a complete because we got
Speaker 1: we got hitting the quarterback in the head outlawed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: before you even became the quarterback of the Bears. Baby,
Speaker 1: all those little eighties quite I feel kind of bad
Speaker 1: about it now, all those the eighties quarterbacks I meet,
Speaker 1: they're all puss drum Well, men, what do you what
Speaker 1: do you think about him taking the we call the nutcracker,
Speaker 1: it's referred to as the Oklahoma drill? What do you
Speaker 1: think about him taking that out? Because you and I
Speaker 1: probably have fifty reps against each other in that drill.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's good to get rid of it
Speaker 1: or did you think it benefited either of us in
Speaker 1: any way? Well? Did it teach us balance? Tell me yeah,
Speaker 1: because the guy that got you know, his head over
Speaker 1: his skis is the one that got chunked. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's the same way I think about boxing.
Speaker 1: You know, why do you spar before your first professional
Speaker 1: fight to get your body and your jawl ready for
Speaker 1: the contact, and without that, you're gonna get dings? Right,
Speaker 1: you know, if you go, if you're sparring before you
Speaker 1: first professional fight and the spating partner breaks your jaw,
Speaker 1: you find out you got a glass jaw. Should you
Speaker 1: play foot? Should you be a professional boxer? No, it's
Speaker 1: the same way I think about football. If you go
Speaker 1: out there and you ain't got to head for it,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't play it. Steve McMichael, our guest here on
Speaker 1: Bears All Access with Jim Miller, Tom Fair, Jeff Joniac,
Speaker 1: with you, Mike Channon, her Lawrence, our producers. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to everybody with you to the time of the hour. Steve,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna blow some Tom Fair smoke here
Speaker 1: because he admires you. He's I'll tell you, when I
Speaker 1: started working with him twenty three years ago on these broadcasts,
Speaker 1: he always talked about you, and we always had I
Speaker 1: sat next to him on the team playing a lot
Speaker 1: for all these years, and we talk about history and
Speaker 1: always talked about Steve McMichael. Don't underestimate what he accomplished,
Speaker 1: how smart of a football, how play, how much of
Speaker 1: an instinctive player he was. When you hear appear like that,
Speaker 1: I got you faced every day in practice, got to
Speaker 1: know very well on a decorated team. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like you left a mark, Jeff, It's it's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest accomplishments, and one of the greatest compliments I've
Speaker 1: ever had in my life is from my peers. When
Speaker 1: you get a compliment from your peers. You know, Jay Hilgenberg,
Speaker 1: what did he say, Tommy having to practice against McMichael
Speaker 1: and Hampton, The games are easy? Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny about Funny about that, man is I was playing
Speaker 1: in the USFL with a guy named Jerry Sullivan who
Speaker 1: came to the Bears for a little while, and he
Speaker 1: warned me for an entire season before I came to
Speaker 1: the Bears about practicing against McMichael and Hampton. Oh yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, we were practicing what we were gonna do
Speaker 1: in the game and what we couldn't do in the game.
Speaker 1: But the offshoot of it was, guys weren't gonna sit
Speaker 1: around and look like a dog while we're going full speed.
Speaker 1: They're gonna ratchet up their intensity and now they're learning.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't care who Tommy played against after
Speaker 1: practicing against me. Keith Millard didn't do nothing to him.
Speaker 1: You know, Randy, what I couldn't get past the boards,
Speaker 1: He's locked arms. That's what you learn in practice. You
Speaker 1: don't learn half speed because that ain't the game. Baby. Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, Stephen, that you know, I
Speaker 1: know you're you guys are a tight group. You guys
Speaker 1: stay connected with a lot of guys still live there
Speaker 1: in Chicago, of teams that that you were on. But
Speaker 1: what does this hundred celebration we can mean to you?
Speaker 1: You know, reconnecting with the guys and maybe some guys
Speaker 1: you haven't seen over the last couple Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you want we won that championship and your family, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you're going to the family picnics and I
Speaker 1: hope the bears got more than one beer there or
Speaker 1: the uncles will fight over it. Oh, I just love
Speaker 1: a little uh. You know, even Shakespeare had some comic
Speaker 1: relief in his Shakespearean Tragedy statement. You know, with that
Speaker 1: being said, the eighty five team has had so many
Speaker 1: events and books and obviously the documentary. So as we
Speaker 1: wrapped this one hundred and put a nice bow on
Speaker 1: it and kick off the one hundred season, this is
Speaker 1: not likely a celebration. Obviously it's ever to happen again.
Speaker 1: What's left to be said about, honestly the eighty five
Speaker 1: championship team? Wow? Well, Jeff, you know, you know how
Speaker 1: you classify monsters of the midway, and that's unbound since
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. You know how you classify them. They're characters
Speaker 1: with character, and boy, did we have a bunch of
Speaker 1: them on that team, didn't we. That's why everybody remembers that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about everybody in America. I'm just not talking
Speaker 1: about in Chicago, because in America feel it's the same
Speaker 1: way about those characters because we weren't just football players.
Speaker 1: We entertained the hell out of them too, didn't We
Speaker 1: certainly did, and you still do it. Hey, Steve, are
Speaker 1: you able to spend another few minutes with us after
Speaker 1: the commercial? Sure, I've got a great George Hollis story
Speaker 1: for you. All right, Well, we are looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: On the other side of this break, We're got a
Speaker 1: floor for the dramatic. Where was Where was George on
Speaker 1: that hundred lift? You know, just the old man that
Speaker 1: started the whole league and played, owned and coached. Where
Speaker 1: we he on that hundred hundred list? I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you when we come back after this break.
Speaker 1: In Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. This goal I wanted
Speaker 1: to get your producer up and at him back back
Speaker 1: where our final segment. Steve McMichael kind enough to join us.
Speaker 1: We'll be with you to the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Tom there, Jim Miller with you as well. In Chicago
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six seventy to score, brought to you by
Speaker 1: IGS Energy. You got a George Hallis story, but hold
Speaker 1: it for a moment, because I was just going through
Speaker 1: this with tom and over the course of the research
Speaker 1: Jim Miller. Also, the eighty five Bears is often linked
Speaker 1: to the eighty three draft, like all those players, but
Speaker 1: when you think about it, that was Tallis's last draft.
Speaker 1: He brought those guys to the team before he died. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but listen, already in place you Walter, Jay Hilgenberg, Oldis Wilson,
Speaker 1: Dan Hampton, Gary Fens, Van Horne, Todd Bell was on
Speaker 1: that team. Al Harris was already there. It's amazing what
Speaker 1: you already had in place. Dennis McKinnon came in as
Speaker 1: a free agent. Yeah, we just needed a wacky quarterback
Speaker 1: to him kill out all the slappies. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: it was great. But listen, I never I never mentioned
Speaker 1: this to Tommy either. Hears something he don't know when
Speaker 1: George Tallis signed me. It was during the season, and
Speaker 1: because I was blackballed in New England for how I practiced,
Speaker 1: and because Tommy just thought I'd brought that had started
Speaker 1: that there in Chicago. It was part of the reason
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, you're not wanting us get out. Well.
Speaker 1: I came to Chicago in eighty one and six weeks
Speaker 1: into the season, George Hallis still in his office, still
Speaker 1: running the team signed me to my first contract. But
Speaker 1: I walked in and he said, and he said, you
Speaker 1: don't need no agent's son, Come on in the office.
Speaker 1: And I walked in there and it was like I
Speaker 1: was walking into a nineteen twenty gangster movie. And he
Speaker 1: was James Cagney, you know the vernacular, good nineteen twenties
Speaker 1: talk like him. You know what he said to me, Jeff,
Speaker 1: He said, I've heard what kind of dirty rat jar
Speaker 1: in practice? Don't change? See well, you know you're going
Speaker 1: up against John Hannah every day. But Hallis wanted me
Speaker 1: to come mix it up and practice. He was tired
Speaker 1: of the lollygaggin. You know, I gotta tell you a
Speaker 1: funny story. When I was a kid, I came up
Speaker 1: to where Hallis Hall used to be, and you guys
Speaker 1: used to practice across the street. They were going through
Speaker 1: the one on one drills and Noah Jackson came up
Speaker 1: there and no one wanted to go against him. And
Speaker 1: I hear this guy bellow, oh hell, I'll go against
Speaker 1: him getting the stands, And it was you going against it.
Speaker 1: And I had a lot of respect for Nolah Jackson.
Speaker 1: He was a big, powerful guy. And that was the
Speaker 1: tone that I was intimidated by before I ever got
Speaker 1: to be a teammate of yours, because of with all
Speaker 1: the guys that didn't want to go against them, you
Speaker 1: were the guy that jumped up to the front of
Speaker 1: the line to go against them. Well, I was just
Speaker 1: trying to quote John Wayne who said, no brag, just fact.
Speaker 1: I'm up here. I ain't selling Wolf tickets. I'm coming
Speaker 1: straight for you. Pal with it. Since you since you
Speaker 1: brought up Papa Bear, you know, and you brought up
Speaker 1: a great point at just his history his impact on
Speaker 1: the league. People don't understand like guys like or Paul
Speaker 1: Brown are just you know, they're so crucial and where
Speaker 1: the league is right now, and you know, I know
Speaker 1: where splitting hairs because all these Bears are great players
Speaker 1: and they're splitting hairs. But man, his impact on the league.
Speaker 1: What was your impression when you were arrived and like
Speaker 1: you said, decided to to the first contract, but knowing
Speaker 1: what he stood for and what he was about, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about being a Bear.
Speaker 1: But since the start of the league nineteen twenty, and
Speaker 1: you know how Hollis got the whole thing started because
Speaker 1: it was going to fail. The college was big back then,
Speaker 1: not pro ball. That was like just like Stay had
Speaker 1: a company softball team. I was his football team, you know.
Speaker 1: But he signed the Gallop and Ghost out of Notre
Speaker 1: Dame and went on a barnstorming tour. That means you're
Speaker 1: on a train like you're in a carnival, and you're
Speaker 1: playing football's football games three or four times a week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some back to back. Yeah you understand. That's greatness there.
Speaker 1: And he was number thirty seven on the one hundred
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, well I give up my spot
Speaker 1: for him, Jeff. You know what, my first year in
Speaker 1: professional football, I played for George Allen, and George Allen
Speaker 1: used to tell me stories about George Hollis. He has
Speaker 1: so much respect for him, and he loved the Bears
Speaker 1: and he loved George Hallis so much and they worked.
Speaker 1: They you know, they butted heads a little bit because
Speaker 1: George had ideas of his own, but he was always
Speaker 1: the guy that said, man, I want to prepare you
Speaker 1: to go back to the Bears, and I want to
Speaker 1: be proud of you because of George Hallis. Look, George,
Speaker 1: I think I think it was the two Georges that
Speaker 1: back the nose guard up and came up with the
Speaker 1: middle linebackers. True, right, Bill, George, George, you were giving
Speaker 1: them history here. Boys. Yeah, but you know as you
Speaker 1: oh sorry, give me the answer. Yeah, Millennials, you got
Speaker 1: to study well. And I respect the fact that players
Speaker 1: like yourself who had such a great impact in this
Speaker 1: league and in this city and this franchise cared enough
Speaker 1: about the history to talk about it like right now
Speaker 1: and know it. And Jim you've had to because you're
Speaker 1: an announcer now, you're you're a guy who's in the
Speaker 1: in the in the broadcast around. You got to know
Speaker 1: the history. Yeah, well that's why Hey, I'm this is
Speaker 1: why I'm with with Steve on this because you know,
Speaker 1: just in terms of history of the league. And I
Speaker 1: know all those all those top Bears aren't deserving, but
Speaker 1: to me, Papa Bear hallis he is too low. He
Speaker 1: needs to be hired on that list just for his
Speaker 1: impact on the National Football League and what he alone
Speaker 1: has done to take this league direction. You know it
Speaker 1: was called the Greatest Bears, right, Yeah, Greatness is entails
Speaker 1: a lot more than just stance, my friend, yep, absolutely well.
Speaker 1: The intangibles tell sometimes a much larger story, and obviously
Speaker 1: a guy like yourself had the intangibles. If there was
Speaker 1: one thing you want to be remembered by, and I
Speaker 1: know this would be a topic throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the weekend and conversations with all the players passed and
Speaker 1: present coaches included how you want to be remembered? Because
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: because you've remembered in a very very different ways depending
Speaker 1: on what time of your career or who was watching
Speaker 1: when not just football but off the field. So how
Speaker 1: do you want to be remembered as a football player?
Speaker 1: Flat out? Playing? Simple? Jeff? You know, even though I
Speaker 1: went to Green Bay and played those last sixteen those
Speaker 1: who weren't in a row too. So from the time
Speaker 1: I came to the Bears till I retired, I played
Speaker 1: in every game. Yep, you understand that. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: without injury. My friends, six knee operations, broken bones. I've
Speaker 1: got three ruptured disc in my neck and the nerves
Speaker 1: are all bundled up. And that's one thing I want
Speaker 1: to say to all the kids, Like you know, on
Speaker 1: that thirty for thirty when I took my helmet off
Speaker 1: and Covert Sucker punched me and I said, keep your
Speaker 1: helmet on, kids, and everybody laughed. I want to say
Speaker 1: this to all the parents out there. Put a neck
Speaker 1: collar on your kid's shoulder pad if you want to
Speaker 1: do something for him. That's good advice. You know. I
Speaker 1: agree with that, Tommy, Yeah, I agree. I agree hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But you know, Ming, I think it's also is the
Speaker 1: preparation that we put into the off season in order
Speaker 1: to make sure that we could play during the season,
Speaker 1: Because I remember walking into the training room where you
Speaker 1: were biting on three sticks, getting a needle shoved in
Speaker 1: your shoulder so you could come out and play. But
Speaker 1: you know, the dedication that yourself and Dan Hamptons, you know,
Speaker 1: showed a lot of guys. You know, it was inspirational
Speaker 1: to people that needed to see it in order to
Speaker 1: understand your commitment to the game. Yeah, well just like
Speaker 1: that Sullivant related you know that center. Yes, they brought
Speaker 1: him there for one practice and he left. He didn't
Speaker 1: have the commitment. That's you know, when you see guys
Speaker 1: that's got the same commitment as you, you got something, baby,
Speaker 1: And I think this new bar team guy. You know
Speaker 1: when when Khalil Matt came in here and said, and
Speaker 1: money's not but I want to be a legend. That's
Speaker 1: a guy telling you I'm gonna work my butt off
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have a motor and you watch me play.
Speaker 1: You know that's kind of infectious to the team. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's manifesting. It's solf. These guys are working now. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you they're working. And so I asked Steve that, Jim,
Speaker 1: what's it meant for you? And how do you want
Speaker 1: to be remembered as a Bear And you know, unfortunately
Speaker 1: you weren't here that long, but you've clearly attached yourself
Speaker 1: to this organization as an announcer and on this show
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Well, I just see you know, it's the
Speaker 1: relationships you have developed. You know. I bring this up
Speaker 1: all the time. Playing for family organizations like the Steelers
Speaker 1: and like the Chicago Bears. You know, these are lifelong relationships,
Speaker 1: you know, whether people in the you know, in the
Speaker 1: you know on the staff there, you know, in the
Speaker 1: front office, in the equipment room, even the grounds crewment
Speaker 1: you know Kenny Murroc and that that whole group. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think loyalty is a is a very
Speaker 1: special trait to have. And I think the really the
Speaker 1: when you look at the mc caskeys and everything that
Speaker 1: organization represents, loyalty is a good quality to have, and
Speaker 1: I think they represent it and why people have been
Speaker 1: attached to that organization for so long, and just like
Speaker 1: it represents certain things that they stand for. Toughness, and
Speaker 1: I think whether it's the eighty five Bears or even
Speaker 1: some of the teams that I played on, a lot
Speaker 1: of tough guys that have left me a lot of
Speaker 1: memorable moments. So that's what I want to be remembered
Speaker 1: as that, Hey, I was tough, I was a good teammate.
Speaker 1: I tried to be there for my teammates every time
Speaker 1: I lined up, and it showed the commitment that as
Speaker 1: Steve McMichael and Tom Sayer have been talking about, that's
Speaker 1: when you win, baby, that's when you go thirteen and
Speaker 1: three as a starting quarterback of the Bears. That's right, buddy, Hey, baby,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Tommy. You know. For me, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm proud to be a hometown guy that had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play for the Bears, because I always
Speaker 1: brag about Chicago in the sense that you have guys
Speaker 1: like Steve McMichael and these guys that are from different
Speaker 1: areas of the world, but they stay in Chicago because
Speaker 1: of the support of the fans and the communities that
Speaker 1: they grew up in as a player or they grew
Speaker 1: up grew through as an adult. Yeah. I come from
Speaker 1: Friday night lights in Texas, and let me tell you
Speaker 1: what up here in Chicago. This is like mecca for
Speaker 1: pro football because it started here, didn't it. Yes, And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what going through. I told Tommy to
Speaker 1: go watch the nineteen sixty three championship game. You can
Speaker 1: watch it on YouTube with commercials. The whole bit Pat
Speaker 1: Summer is doing analysis in that game. You go to
Speaker 1: nineteen forties, you can see the highlights. There's one common
Speaker 1: thread and I can't get enough of it. First of all,
Speaker 1: I can spend an entire day watching every single clip
Speaker 1: of Dick Bukis play football, period. But I mean when
Speaker 1: Steve come on, now, I mean it's not even close
Speaker 1: and he's limping around doing it on bad knees, on
Speaker 1: bad knees, but he drives his body into anything moving
Speaker 1: and breathing. I honestly, that is it right there. But
Speaker 1: you know what, the sixty three guys hit, the guys
Speaker 1: in the forties hit you, guys hit hard. These guys
Speaker 1: are hitting hard again, these new monsters. It's the way
Speaker 1: Bears football has to be played. It must fit the
Speaker 1: fabric of the organization and the city in which it thrives.
Speaker 1: True or Fox if that family wants to keep those
Speaker 1: seats full, because you know that Fox last game half
Speaker 1: a house. Now, you know, if Dick Buckas was on
Speaker 1: Fox's team, that have been their full house to watch him.
Speaker 1: But because Fox didn't have that going on, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: coming to the game, were they. I mean, honestly, we
Speaker 1: gotta go. Wouldn't you have loved to share the field
Speaker 1: for one game with Dick buckas. I would have loved
Speaker 1: have done a throwback game with Budcas and both Dog
Speaker 1: Turner and run into that I wo. I can remember
Speaker 1: walking out of the locker room and Steve McMichael saying, okay, half,
Speaker 1: let's go out here. Make singletary and all Pro didn't.
Speaker 1: It was the defensive tackles too. They need they deserve
Speaker 1: some credit for the greatness in the middle linebacker position
Speaker 1: of the Bears. Steve, thanks for walking down memory lane.
Speaker 1: We'll look forward to it on the weekend. Guys. Appreciate you. Guys. Yes,
Speaker 1: we do get it. We do get it. Jim, are
Speaker 1: you coming down? I won't be there so booked at today.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing my son, Manny. So we're looking forward to it. Man,
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