Ep. 278: Thanksgiving in Detroit with Jeff Riger

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Holmes is joined by Jeff Riger from 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit to preview the holiday clash between the Bears and Lions. Topics include the Lions' tenuous QB situation (2:45), a Matt Stafford update and a comparison to Jay Cutler (5:00), the Lions' inability to win big games in recent years (9:00), and the struggles of head coach Matt Patricia that have the Lions fan base so upset (13:45).See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Lawrence Holmes.
0:07.1	Welcome into the Undercenter podcast.
0:09.5	Today I'm going to preview Bears versus Lions.
0:13.6	Thanksgiving Day game.
0:15.1	I got Jeff Rieger of the ticket in Detroit.
0:18.2	He's going to talk about some of the things that you need to be looking
0:20.9	out for, including a protest? Yeah, that's coming up on the Under Center podcast.
0:27.4	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question. It means everything to me.
0:33.0	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:41.3	The history of it. I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first
0:46.3	franchises just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:51.3	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the
0:58.9	running back position with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to
1:02.3	follow in those footsteps.
1:04.0	So being a bear means everything.
1:06.0	I mean, what more can you say?
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