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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Bears-Packers game reminded Carmen why she loves football

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Carmen Vitali shared her experience of covering the Bears' thrilling win against the Packers on Saturday at Soldier Field.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Carmen Vitale does an incredible job working for Fox Sports Radio.

0:03.8

She also works for Marquis Network.

0:06.3

She's covered the NFC North for forever.

0:08.3

She covers the Bears along with that.

0:10.9

You were at Soldier Field on Saturday.

0:14.0

What was it like?

0:17.1

It was special.

0:18.8

It was cool.

0:19.3

I still actually, and it's still, I think it's still my coat pocket.

0:22.4

I have my first credential from the first time I ever got to cover a Bears Packers game.

0:29.9

So for those of you that don't know, I grew up here in the Western suburbs.

0:33.3

I grew up a massive Bears fan.

0:35.7

I had a ring that I got when I was a teenager that it was like from the NFL shop and it said bears on it. And I wore it all the way up until I started interning for the Arizona Cardinals in college. And I was like maybe I shouldn't have another team on my finger. So this has always been a very special rivalry. I don't, I'm completely biased.

0:55.2

I think it's the best one in pretty much all of the major sports.

0:58.9

And it was, it was always a really cool thing that I got to cover it then.

1:04.2

But, and Lawrence, as you know, I think when you, especially when you work for a team,

1:09.3

I worked for a team in Tampa for six years.

1:11.2

And you have a Super Bowl ring from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1:14.2

I was well compensated for my efforts, though not monetarily.

1:18.6

That's another story.

1:20.1

But it does then become a job, right?

1:24.3

And it, you get immune to a lot. And you kind kind of there's the shell that kind of forms or

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