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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today on The Stretch, we are joined by former Chicago Bear Alex Brown. We jump right into discussing the best QBs in Bears history (2:18) and the love hate relationship we have with Bears weather (8:16). We get Brown’s thoughts on the Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams era (11:43) and throw it back to playing for Lovie Smith (14:35). We discuss how Training Camp has gone soft and other ways the NFL has changed over the years (24:14) along with his experiences getting drafted (29:56). Next we talk about Coach Spurrier and how he landed at UF (32:40). Brown tells us his first hand story of the infamous Sugar Bowl Fight (37:30). Next we compare Florida to Chicago (46:20) and talk about his experience in New Orleans (48:52). We get Brown’s take on Ben Johnson’s growing pains and the future of the Chicago Bears (51:50). To wrap things up, he confirms the rumors that his house was the place to be on Halloween (58:10).
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0:11.0 | All right, before we get into today's stretch interview with Alex Brown, I want to talk about the |
0:14.9 | great tasting, less filling Miller Light. Chief, as you saw earlier in the week, we did a little |
0:20.4 | challenge here on Barstall on |
0:22.5 | Tuesday night. Yeah. You know I demanded that I had Miller Light. That's the only beer for you. I know. And for me. I know. I just, they were like, all right, is there any like specifications people want? I was like, yeah, I need Miller. I'm not doing it. And if you watch, I sometimes have a straw on my beer and people are making fun of me. |
0:20.3 | If they were saying I was drinking straw beers, I was not. |
0:22.5 | That's just a no. want. I was like, yeah, I need Miller. I'm not doing it. And if you watch, I sometimes have a straw on my beer and people are making fun of me if they were saying I was drinking straw beers. |
0:40.5 | I was not. That's just denoted that that was my Miller Lite. So now you know. But listen, it's not about me. Drink it out of a straw if you wanted. Yeah, I don't, it doesn't matter. It's still going to taste great. It's Miller Light. So, uh, but yeah, enough about me. Miller Lite, |
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0:42.2 | honest, this is Miller Lite. Miller light so uh but yeah enough about me Miller light the official beer of Chicago Bears go to |
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0:58.9 | it pretty much anywhere that they sell beer just make sure you sell it responsibly it's |
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1:08.3 | beer Milwaukee Wisconsin 96 calories per 12 ounces. That's all I got. Let's get into the interview. All right, everybody, welcome back to the stretch. This is an interview episode. Today we are joined by our friend in studio for the first time. Alex Brown, Alex, thank you for battling the traffic to come in here, dude. For sure, man. I know, it's Chicago traffic. I know. I saw your Instagram story, and I saw the map, and it was all red, and I was like, man, I do that every day. Yeah. It's tough. Yeah. It's only Chicago. Like, you can look at it. It's like six miles. And so you have to ask the right questions when you, when you're asking people, |
1:44.3 | hey, how far are you? |
2:04.5 | Well, I'm three miles away, but I'm technically about 38 minutes away. Yeah, so you have 45 minutes. Yeah, exactly. But what's up, man? How are you? Man, I'm good, man. You're in town with some of the boys? Huh? You're in town with some of the boys, huh? Yeah, Lack and Rex, we did a appearance with city cruises. |
2:06.4 | It's awesome, so awesome. |
2:10.8 | So you get some fans that come on and we take pictures and we sign autographs and then we kind of chill for like two hours. |
2:12.7 | We're going to do two more. |
2:14.6 | I want to say it's in October, one's in November. |
2:17.4 | Oh, nice. It's awesome. We'll go check |
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