Chet,North,Mac-would have been my 3 choices, too.

I went with Chet, North & Buffone- Doug was one of my all-time favorite Bears and I feel the same about him as a radio personality.

I didn't include O'Bradovich because of limited air time. I added Grobstein,can't believe I forgot him!!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

north, jiggs, murph.

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Murph

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The Sportswriters
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I've never listened to Swirsky for more than a segment here or there & didn't/don't like Coppock.

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I voted for the three guys I enjoy listening to the most, Mac, Buffone, and the Good Kid. Probably the worst ballot filled out so far.

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Chet really was the Godfather of Sports talk here. The ratings his shows gathered probably were a measure used to gauge interest in a sports talk network before Danny Lee started it all with the Score. But I have to protest the fact that Danny Lee's name is not on the list. Danny put together the Score, with Tom Shaer, Dan Jiggetts, Mike North, Mike Murphy, Dan McNeil, Terry Boers and an update guy named Mike Greenberg. He had a vision and put together a team that was perhaps the best group of sports talkers ever assembled for a local radio station. Mike North and his brash personality caught everyones attention and brought the station listeners in droves. Dan McNeil was and remains a Hall of famer.

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This is on tape and I don't think it happened this way. Ditka was cursing out everyone including Motlow. Motlow called him on it and demanded an apology. Ditka wouldn't apologize. Ditka apologized privately later in the hallway.

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The (only) answer is Daniel Bernstein.

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The correct answer is Chet, North, and The Sportswriters.

Chet and The Sportswriters were islands of sports talk in the 1980s. I don't thin any show has been as consistently good as those Sportswriters shows in the early days.

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Minor correction.... Greenie was not at the Score at the beginning.

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After the 2 weeks of voting are up,we should notify the winners and have a dinner somewhere. We can have Trophies made up & make it a real "fake" thing.

Also,after the 3 winners become official,we should form a veterans commitee of Board Elders to "Santo" in a 4th guy.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Where's Silvy?

He's not dead, just beat up.

Next to LoHo on the "you don't matter" Bus.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Which poster did he threaten with a lawsuit?

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THIS IS A GOD DAMN TRAVESTY!

Are you people unaware of the guy who made this all possible for these numbnuts!

Boop!

This is terrible. I am more ashamed of the entire bored right now more than ever!

Sunday Night WCFL AM 1000 , Live from the Thirsty Whale ! (I think in Skokie? was too young to go) SWIRSKY ON SPORTS

Buffoon of the Week!

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Thirsty Whale was on the corner of River & Belmont(?) or Grand in River Grove.
Right next to Gene & Judes.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Used to be a southwest suburbs rock club like that too. Crazy Rock? Like joliet almost?

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Thanks but I actually saw that site about a month or so ago. I was looking up a favorite local band,TANTRUM. They had 3 female singers in the group and were managed by Joe Crispino (The Duke). I used to hang out in his law office on Saturdays with my Elmwood Park Crew.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Were the Sports Reporters on the radio?

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The Sportwriters with Ben Bentley hosting were. The Sports Reporters headed by the child abuser from Philadelphia,I'm not sure. I think they were a ripoff of our local group.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I used to watch them (Bentley, Jauss, Gleason, Telander, etc) on Sportschannel but I didn't know they were on the radio.

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I'm old enough to remember getting excited about them going to TV.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

here ya go:

The Sports Writers on TV was a sports talk show produced by John E. Roach for the Chicago-based SportsChannel and syndicated to most of the other ones across the SportsChannel America network. Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley, Joe Mooshill, Lester Munson, and Rick Telander were the usual writers discussing the sports issues of the day, and the show was a forerunner of many of the sportswriter TV shows that are much more common now (The Sports Reporters, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, etc.). The show also featured occasional conversations with Bill Veeck and Billy Corgan.

The show was a video adaptation of The Sportswriters, a long-running radio program on Chicago's WGN. The first airing of Sportswriters on TV was on WFLD-TV in 1985. The set remained the same over the next 15 years of existence. The panel of three sportswriters (usually Jauss, Gleason and Telander) and moderator Bentley (a former public relations executive with the Bulls and a longtime boxing promoter before that) would sit around a card table, which was littered with newspapers, and talk sports. Unlike most other shows of this nature, the background was usually dark while the table, and the sportswriters sitting around it, was lit. Gleason and Bentley would constantly smoke cigars, and the sportswriters would wear casual clothes. It was not uncommon to see Jauss wearing a faded pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt with the name of an area bar. Adding to the informal nature of the show, they would often call each other by their last names (e.g., "Jauss," "Gleason") as guys sitting around a bar might do.

After a year on WFLD, it moved to SportsVision, the precursor to SportsChannel Chicago. When the Fox Sports Network purchased SportsChannel in 1997, the show continued until 2000, when Fox decided not to renew the show.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

WGN, If I remember correctly.

Never mind...Jimmy got it.

Bernstein and Mac for me.


I have major problems with both, but they're both great hosts for different reasons.

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