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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 160: With NBC Sports Soccer’s Arlo White and Roger Bennett

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Two of the biggest Bears fans you’ll meet happen to be two of the most recognizable voices of NBC Sports’ Premier League coverage. Arlo White, the lead play by play announcer for NBC’s Premier League coverage, grew up in Leicester and fell in love with Chicago and the Bears in the 1980s, following games on a faint armed forces radio signal. And Roger Bennett of the Men in Blazers used to call random 312 numbers from a friend’s house as a kid in Liverpool to find out what the Bears’ score was. Hear from both about how they became Bears fans, how they’ve followed the team over the years and what they think of the 2018 side — which they both predict to beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. 0:00: Introductions, and is Arlo White the biggest Bears fan in all of Leicester?1:10: How a childhood trip to Evergreen Park led White to become a Bears fan4:35: How did you follow the Bears in England in the 1980s?7:00: What was it like to get to call the 2008 Super Bowl for British radio?9:40: How White managed to make it to Green Bay for the Bears’ season opener11:55: White’s impressions of the 2018 Bears, and what it was like to get to watch Khalil Mack in person 14:20: Are there NFL fans around Premier League press boxes like there are Premier League fans around NFL press boxes?16:20: White’s prediction for Bears-Vikings, beyond drinking “nine cups of coffee” to stay awake19:00: Welcoming Roger Bennett to the pod, and how he became a Bears fan while growing up in Liverpool21:30: Calling random 312 numbers in Chicago to get the Bears score24:10: How White and Rog wound up at the same Bears preseason game in 1986 without knowing it26:10: Rog’s experience greeting the Bears at O’Hare at 2 a.m. after they played the Cowboys in London31:00: Why Rog moved to Chicago (and specifically Rogers park) right after college33:00: The Bears are a centerpiece of the Bennett family Sundays, taking part in the “joy that is Tarik Cohen and his ebullience”34:30: Why Rog *really* likes Matt Nagy #balds36:45: Rog’s prediction for Bears-Vikings38:20: Why Rog is an 11/10 in confidence the Bears will win the Super Bowl See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome in to an under center podcast special.

0:11.1

I'm JJ Stankevitz for NBC Sports Chicago.

0:13.9

With the Bears playing the Vikings on Sunday night football on NBC,

0:17.2

I wanted to get the thoughts of two of NBC's football analysts.

0:20.1

Well, they're actually soccer

0:21.6

analysts on the game, and both of them happen to be huge Bears fans. We'll be joined by Roger

0:27.0

Bennett of the Men and Blazers in the second half of this podcast, but it's my pleasure to welcome

0:31.7

to the under center podcast, Arlo White, the voice of NBC's Premier League coverage, and I would assume

0:36.8

the biggest Bears fan in all of Lester.

0:38.7

I think I can definitely lay claim to the Leicester area, yes, for sure.

0:44.5

The biggest Chicago Bears fan, possibly in the Midlands.

0:48.5

Beyond that, I couldn't really vote too much.

0:50.8

Probably, are there watch groups?

0:53.5

Do you have like a Chicago Bears watch group in the area?

0:57.8

No, unfortunately not.

0:59.0

I mean, Sundays are quite complicated in terms of watching.

1:01.0

That would make sense.

1:01.8

Because obviously I'm working.

1:02.9

Yeah, working most of them.

1:04.0

But I tend to watch on the game pass in the evening when I get home and try and stay

1:08.7

away.

1:08.9

If the game's already started, I'll try and stay away from the score.

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