If no one bought the tickets to sit outside in cold weather, the games wouldn't be on TV.

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I think the ideal location to play all NFL games is on an indoor soundstage with robotic cameras.

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You know me like that.

There should just be computer simulations to decide the winning team.

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But that sort of 'discussion' dominates most pregame shows anyway. Unless there's some breaking story just prior to the game, I think most pregame shows are rather insufferable and a complete waste of time. The only thing you need to know before a game is that your team will win if it outscores the other team. All other analyses during pregame shows are repeating what I just said in the prior sentence, regardless of this or that special play, this player, or that player, etc.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

And the "I hate Ditka" discussions/calls begin.

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You know me like that.

for about five years 1983-87 or so, I don't see how you could have hated Mike Ditka.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

You are forgetting the era. Local sports broadcasts were still the principal source for sports news at the time. Johnnie and Jeannie Morris were the darlings of the industry. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Johnnie's TV contract was greater than Ditka's coaching contract in 1985.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

He's kind of right though.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That's exactly what I mean. When Ditka came in it wasn't long before he was the King of Chicago. Even before the Super Bowl really. It started when he cut Rickey Watts right off the bat. Morris was clearly jealous. Look at those Drunk Ditka postgames. Morris knows he's loaded and he fucks with him.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

For anybody that was a Bears fan before 1982, I don't see how you could hate Mike Ditka.

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You know me like that.

For anybody that was ever born, I don't see how you could like Mini Ditka.

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HAHAHAAHAH!!! BERNSTEIN PWND!!! scott @ 3:11pm!!!

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Explain

not if you are the guys who bought my tickets for triple face in August

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

From transition, there is nothing I'm rooting for more than a blizzard hitting the Super Bowl to mess up Goodell's party for the sponsors, esp given the fact the NFL is telling fans they can't tailgate in the parking lots:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Spor ... Super-Bowl

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory

Were you there the day he gave Terry an earful at a remote?

Made Stuttering John sound like Thomas Jefferson.

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Consider the source ... there's nothing to explain as only the lowest common denominator of person would even pretend to think that.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

"A following that is no more."

It's hilarious that Bernstein actually believes that.

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You know me like that.

He lives at the track.

Did you ever ask him JORR?

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Red Carpet.

Should have been an Orange Carpet…

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You know me like that.

I'm sure you're right. Based on what the players were getting in 1985, wouldn't shock me if Ditka made under 100k in 1985. It's amazing to see how much sports blew up with the money and salaries from this time period.

This was published in the January 10, 1986 Chicago Sun Times. According to the paper, signing bonuses and incentives are not included in these figures.

Offense
Jim McMahon, Quarterback, $600,000
Walter Payton, Running Back, $685,000
Matt Suhey, Running Back, $260,000
Willie Gault, Wide Receiver, $241,000
Dennis McKinnon, Wide Receiver, $100,000
Jim Covert, Left Tackle, $190,000
Mark Bortz, Left Guard, $90,000
Jay Hilgenberg, Center, $110,000
Tom Thayer, Right Guard, $160,000
Keith Van Horne, Right Tackle, $225,000
Emery Moorehead, Tight End, $200,000

Defense
Dan Hampton, Defensive End, $325,000
Steve McMichael, Defensive Tackle, $225,000
William Perry, Defensive Tackle, $138,250
Richard Dent, Defensive End, $90,000
Otis Wilson, Linebacker, $150,000
Mike Singletary, Linebacker, $200,000
Wilber Marshall, Linebacker, 250,000
Mike Richardson, Cornerback, $175,000
Leslie Frazier, Cornerback, $130,000
Dave Duerson, Strong Safety, $125,000
Gary Fencik, Free Safety, $275,000

Here's one if somebody wants to take it.

For the Dan Bernsteins of the world that say that the Ditka thing is a thing of the past that you almost feel sorry for those that still cling to it, the most popular segment your radio station has ever had and one that is STILL used on YOUR SHOW every week is based on old Orange Face ripping into your elder statesman. So, who are you crappin'?

Somebody throw in a couple $20 words and an obscure literary reference and it might get read.

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You know me like that.

Frank in Oak Park makes me want to enter a bleach-drinking competition.

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3 is the hour, it means 3pm central daylight savings time. 11 is the minutes, its the number of time periods that equal one minute times eleven.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Holy shit!!! Good one!!!

Some guy (not SomeGuy) called to say NFL players shouldn't wear pink because it "sissifies" them. Bernsie spent 5 minutes trying to get the guy to say he hates gay people but the guy never went near the gay thing and just said it was a "girl color" and then he hung up.

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Bernstein would counter Doc's argument by saying, "Look, dumb ass Ditka gave us a radio bit". So what? We're not celebrating Ditka with WYC, it's just a segment where people call in to rip on people. We could call it anything."

Then he would call Doc a dumb ass for being an adult and still rooting for his College's sports teams to win.

I was cracking up the entire call. Dan gets so angry.

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Sounds like quality radio. The people prefer that sort crap on the radio over Ditka talk really must have an IQ of zero.

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Or we just find anything Ditka-related insufferable.

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