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Post by Optimisn on Dec 14, 2015 17:33:46 GMT -6
There's a couple jokes going here. About three years ago, a tornado grouping was rolling through my area. We get warnings every once and a while, but this one had people without basements coming over to my house. The tornado touched down just over the interstate between where Terry and I live. Weatherman Ed Curran was suggesting what to do in this situation. One of his suggestions was to put a book on your head. This didn't just become a Boers and Bernstein thing, but friends and family in the area who saw the broadcast.
This picture is supposed to be creepy Terry with a book on his head operating over all NFL Officials. I thought it was pretty good. Well, I'm also supposed to be Ramblin' Grimace, the account that created it.
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Post by November KS on Dec 31, 2015 13:17:22 GMT -6
The King of CTE doesn't want to see the concussion movie.
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Post by Optimisn on Mar 8, 2016 9:34:56 GMT -6
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Post by November KS on Jun 15, 2016 17:11:16 GMT -6
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Post by Hawg Ass on Jun 15, 2016 17:51:50 GMT -6
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Post by November KS on Jun 15, 2016 18:03:15 GMT -6
You stop it right now, Hawger. |
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Post by Optimisn on Jul 12, 2016 15:31:36 GMT -6
It sounds like Bernstein and that Lufrano (Penn St guy) went hard at each other during the 4 o'clock hour. Probably worth a podcast. Say what you will about Bernstein, but he was always right about the Penn St. stuff. It just got to be too much.
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Post by Danny Busch on Jul 12, 2016 16:30:12 GMT -6
It sounds like Bernstein and that Lufrano (Penn St guy) went hard at each other during the 4 o'clock hour. Probably worth a podcast. Say what you will about Bernstein, but he was always right about the Penn St. stuff. It just got to be too much. oh man..I heard them at like 330 saying they wanted to get ahold of him. Never thought he would go on the air. I'm sure Bernstein took him to the woodshed as his stance is just absurd in about every way possible. |
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Post by Optimisn on Jul 12, 2016 16:37:08 GMT -6
"That's not what your ex-wife said when she emailed me."  |
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Post by Optimisn on Jul 12, 2016 16:55:20 GMT -6
Wow. That interview is why Dan's a sports radio host and not a lawyer.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Aug 17, 2016 17:14:30 GMT -6
www.robertfeder.com/2016/08/17/recovery-from-surgery-much-slower-than-hoped-for-terry-boers/Here is the text of Boers’ message to colleagues: Due to some unforeseen circumstances, my recovery is indeed going much slower than I had hoped or expected. It sounds silly, but the fact that I’ve been unable to do the show in so long hurts way more than any of the medical stuff that’s been happening. I have an ache in my heart that somehow requires being a goofball on the air for a minimum of five hours per day. End of story. I can’t explain it either, and the doctors and nurses are at a loss. When I mention how important it is for me to get back to work, they seem frustrated by me being such a cement head, but they have come to expect it. At least those who know what I do. I should note here how eternally grateful I am to all those who have reached out to me in this difficult time. I really didn’t think that doing a sports-talk show was all that important in the grander scale of things and I’m happy to have been so wrong. Looking ahead, my timetable seemingly gets pushed back every other day. Right now, I am looking to return to the airwaves in the early part of October, which will give me plenty of time to soak the Cubs in even greater glory and have some time for Bears, whose coach will likely be crazier than any Fox by that time. Here’s hoping to talk to you soon, Terry Boers
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Post by Optimisn on Aug 17, 2016 19:31:22 GMT -6
Please get well Uncle Terry.
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Post by November KS on Aug 17, 2016 20:35:38 GMT -6
I'm surprised he doesn't just retire. Isn't he like 72? Like for real, I'm not making fun, he really is 72 isn't he?
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 12, 2016 17:55:23 GMT -6
Vintage Boers and Bernstein. Dying.
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 12, 2016 18:11:28 GMT -6
Tears.......
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 14, 2016 20:44:15 GMT -6
This is what I used to listen to. Chris Rongey losing it is everything right with the world.
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Post by Steely Don on Nov 29, 2016 17:39:20 GMT -6
For those that don't haunt the other bored, Terry retires January 5th, 2017. chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/11/29/boers-its-time-to-say-goodbye/I’ve already written this column once. It had been tidied up and put to bed in early June for what I thought would be a joyous day in mid-to-late September when it would run on our website. God, was I ever wrong.
But then life has that way of putting a foot on your throat, of absolutely ruining plans, not caring if they were 50 minutes or 50 years in the making.
It just doesn’t seem fair when that lifetime is your own.
I had sat down that day and used the late, great Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean Smith as my lead, noting he said one of the biggest regrets of his life was retiring from the game too early, that giving up his job at North Carolina in 1997 was an awful mistake.
He even told Roy Williams, the man who would ultimately put a stranglehold on the job in 2003, that the wisdom brought by age can’t be duplicated, that he should hang in there with the Tar Heels as long as he felt physically able because he had so much to offer.
Smith was 66 years old and a living, breathing legend when he quit coaching in Chapel Hill.
But as much as I admired Smith for his work on the court, I admired him even more for the pitched battles he fought off of it, including bringing the first African-American player to campus when he recruited Charlie Scott. He would later speak his mind on a variety of societal issues that were of far more importance than any of his North Carolina victories, even the one on Michael Jordan’s jumper from the wing.
Smith found his voice and a new passion was born, even if he lived every day with the retirement thing set on low burn in his soul.
Knowing all that, I still hope he was wrong about the retirement thing.
As I write this, I’m 66 years old and I’m going to retire, leaving behind one of the greatest jobs you can have, talking sports or movies or TV or life for five hours a day on a station I couldn’t be prouder of. The day of my final show will be Jan. 5, 2017, which will make my tenure at the Score exactly 25 years and three days.
That sounded like the perfect symmetry. Twenty years working in newspapers, 25 years in radio. To others, that may just sound crazy, and I get that, too.
You should know I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, dating all the way back to the night in 2014 when David Letterman made his retirement announcement well in advance, giving notice to find a replacement.
Sometimes you have to be told it’s time to go, others times, such as in my case, you just know the time is right.
This has been the worst year of my life health-wise. I’ve been forced to miss way more time than I ever dreamed I would. There’s no part of me that thought I would ever be gone for more than four months following a major surgery that continues to plague me. And as you read this, know that I have already had a second surgery done on Nov. 1. It wasn’t as complicated as the first, but a surgery nonetheless.
I’ve even allowed myself a pity party or two along the way, something I’ve never done. And I must admit I didn’t find the warm tears streaming down my face to be the least bit annoying, or, God forbid, unmanly. They were just part of a frustrating process that I’ve been unable to defeat — at least not yet.
And then there’s this: Too often these days I find myself forgetting a name or a certain game or a sports fact. That didn’t happen much when this station began on Jan. 2, 1992. I wasn’t a particularly good host at that time, but at the age of 41, I had a much better recollection then I now do.
Of course, back then, we weren’t fighting any trivial pursuits. We were fighting for our survival on 820 AM. (We would also be on 1160 before settling into our super comfortable 670.)
It was reported by some, with great glee I might note, that The Score’s early rating was a 0.00. In other words, no one was listening. It appeared to some that the launch of the first all-sports station in Chicago history was heading for disaster and that no one cared.
Not long after the Sun-Times reported that it had all been a terrible mistake, that there were indeed some people paying attention. Not many mind you, but a few. Interestingly enough, the print for the retraction was practically in agate and positioned in such a way that it was really easy to miss.
That ax was already grinding, and we’d barely said hello. Worse yet, I still worked at the Sun-Times.
I remember shortly after that, then-owner Danny Lee called me into his office. It was Lee and Seth Mason who had the brainchild for The Score after their years of success with the marvelous WXRT.
“Don’t worry about it,’’ Lee said to me, leaning forward in his chair for emphasis. “We’re not going anywhere. We are not going to stop.’’
Now I’d been lied to before, but my gut told me that Lee meant it. Besides, no one in their right mind would’ve predicted instant success for a station operating on a sunup-to-sundown license. Translation, in the winter months we signed off at 4:30 in the afternoon, completely missing the time when people were getting in their cars for the commute home.
We all but had both hands tied behind our back for the winter months, especially in the afternoons in which Brian Hanley and I worked on a rotating basis with Dan McNeil, who I’d known from the days when he was producing for championship windbag Chet Coppock and his nightly sports sermon from Mt. O-Limp-Us.
It’s worth noting that Hanley and I worked as the so-called young sportswriters on Saturdays. It helped that we’d been friends for a good long time before we ever did that show.
Same for McNeil. Although I’d done plenty of radio before The Score, it was Danny who taught me how to be a true pro, who made it clear that even on days when I was down and the energy was low, there was a show that had to be done.
All that matters, he said, is what comes through the radio.
He was right, of course, it was a lesson learned and I took it to heart. At least as best I could. I was prone to some moodiness back then, but I eventually learned that to be a most vital pearl of radio wisdom.
But there would come a day when I couldn’t work, when I absolutely couldn’t muster up what it takes to perform.
It was Sept. 11, 2001, and I was sitting in my car behind the old bunker we worked in on Belmont Ave. when I first got the word that a plane had just smashed into one of the World Trade Center towers.
Dan Bernstein and I worked the 8 a.m. to noon shift those days, and I didn’t know what to make of anything. I got the idea when a second plane hit the other WTC tower, producing some of the most horrific video in this nation’s history.
I started the show. I didn’t come close to finishing it.
I don’t know if I was thunderstruck, full of overwhelming sadness or just damn mad. I don’t recall any one emotion being dominant, but they all combined to finish me. I couldn’t do it. I just wanted to leave.
So I did.
Thank God, Dan was such a trouper under the circumstances.
I remember getting into my car, but I don’t remember anything about the drive home. I can’t even tell you what route I took back to Mokena. I was like a zombie, long before being one apparently gains huge TV ratings.
I was back at work the next day, but I wasn’t fine. I don’t think any Americans were fine.
Bernstein could probably tell you how those shows were, but all I can vividly recall is that it was Letterman who finally gave the cue that it was OK to laugh again, to have a good time, to be ourselves. And I’ll never forget the guy who called up to sing George M. Cohan’s “You’re a Grand Old Flag.’’
I thank the caller for beautiful moment. And I thank everyone else who’s listened to me for the last 24 years. And please remember this, The Score’s record hasn’t been too bad. Since the inception, we’ve had six championships from the Bulls, three from the Blackhawks and one from the 2005 White Sox, whose bullpen actually was allowed to get someone out that year.
And you might have heard about what the Cubs did on Nov. 2, ending 108 years of frustration, heartbreak and plenty of pure, unadulterated baseball nonsense when they won the World Series in the best Game 7 in the history of the game. You’ve probably also heard we’ve even done a lot better in the numbers, firmly entrenched now as part of the fabric of Chicago and the radio home of the Cubs.
I still can’t say those last few words and believe it.
The freaking Cubs play right here, and I couldn’t be prouder of just how far we’ve come as a station, thanks in no small part to the leadership of guys like Ron Gleason and Mitch Rosen, who just happens to be the best boss you can have.
We’ve got some to go yet, but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that my last stop is finally within sight.
During this trying year, it’s never been made more crystal clear to me how many people care. My email has been swamped more than a couple of times during the summer and fall, jammed with well-wishers who’d heard what was going on. That made me cry, too. And so do all the people from this station and others from CBS who’ve shown their love. They have no idea how much it means to me, even if I have no idea how to handle it or what to say when you enter a room of cheering co-workers as I did back on Oct. 24, the first day of my aborted comeback.
So there’s really only one other thing for you to know. This has been the time of my life. Thanks for the ride. |
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Post by Danny Busch on Nov 29, 2016 17:50:44 GMT -6
Jules is the new co-host!!! It's gonna happen.
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Post by November KS on Nov 29, 2016 17:58:25 GMT -6
I haven't listened in forever but Terry was always the goods.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Nov 29, 2016 18:19:50 GMT -6
Good for Terry.
Hell of a career.
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 19:09:18 GMT -6
I will legitimately be emotional for that last show. I'd also fucking love for him to get better and do a Saturday show for a bit. Can you imagine TB with a yut driving from 9-12 once per week with an occasional hiatus? Appt radio and it would be good for TB if he's well enough.
But if not, it's all good. For now, thank you Terry. There are grandkids that want to gently climb on you.
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 20:50:59 GMT -6
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Post by Danny Busch on Nov 29, 2016 21:00:48 GMT -6
When they had the old 10-2 time slot it was the greatest show on earth. Terry continued to be awesome well into the afternoon show until the PSU stuff and then it fell off a cliff and I stopped listening all together after a while. I will always remember the mid day show. Great stuff. Never heard Terry with Mac though....not even once.
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 21:05:34 GMT -6
When they had the old 10-2 time slot it was the greatest show on earth. Terry continued to be awesome well into the afternoon show until the PSU stuff and then it fell off a cliff and I stopped listening all together after a while. I will always remember the mid day show. Great stuff. Never heard Terry with Mac though....not even once. I wasn't a Score guy during the Heavy Fuel Crew. Part of it was college, part of it was The Score always sounded like LOUD NOISES whenever I turned it on. I was a WMVP guy. My friend Bob told me I had to listen to this Boers and Bernstein show. I was hooked like a Suburban teen on H. |
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 21:09:25 GMT -6
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Post by Danny Busch on Nov 29, 2016 21:13:16 GMT -6
I think I first listened off and on when North and Jiggs had that monsters of the mid day show. I believe I listed when working on electrical jobs out of a hatred for 90's country music that everyone else was listening to. I went back to school after that summer and then Dan and Terry were on mid days when I returned to listening. As a non- bear fan I couldn't get enough of those two just unmercifully mocking that team. I had never heard anything like it in my life.
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 21:21:11 GMT -6
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Post by Optimisn on Nov 29, 2016 21:21:46 GMT -6
I absolutely want to be at whatever the last show will be. Don't care. Taking off now.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Nov 29, 2016 21:31:52 GMT -6
Hopefully they have a remote I can get to.
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