Don't take this Bears season for granted (Hour 1)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:01.8	Okay, here we go, sports fans.
0:04.2	Afternoons on the score.
0:06.0	Since the invention of color television, when has there been a time where the bears have truly sustained success?
0:13.3	It doesn't matter what era you began following the Bears.
0:17.6	63, they win the championship.
0:19.8	It's a one-shot deal.
0:26.2	Sandwiched between the greatest dynasty of modern football, the Green Bay Packers and Lombardi.
0:26.8	The 1970s, a forgettable decade.
0:29.5	Yes, they had sweetness, but they didn't win.
0:33.2	85, the greatest single season that any football team has had in the Super Bowl era.
0:40.4	And you're thinking it's just the beginning of a dynasty.
0:43.8	And it wasn't.
0:45.4	The 90s, forgettable.
0:48.2	Lovie Smith comes in.
0:50.0	They make the Super Bowl in 2006 with Rex Grossman, and you're thinking,
0:53.4	you know, Erlacker Briggs, peanut, this is the beginning, Hester,
0:56.9	this is the beginning of something really special.
0:58.5	It was not.
0:59.7	2018.
1:00.9	Matt Nagy comes in.
1:02.2	You would never have thought back then, you know, Mitchell Tribisky is going to be a guy
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