Heavenly Doug Buffone joins us
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today would be the anniversary of losing Doug Buffon, a score classic, a Bears classic, a guy that means a lot to a lot of people at this radio station. |
| 0:10.5 | And I know a ton of people listening as well. |
| 0:12.4 | So we are excited to have Mitch Rosen join us. |
| 0:14.8 | Pennsylvania guy kind of like Wani. |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:17.7 | You know, Doug was great, great in our hallways. |
| 0:20.4 | And, you know, he loved this job. |
| 0:22.6 | He'd come in four hours before shift and prep, and he'd do things like eat raw soup out of a Campbell soup can and, you know, spit tobacco and, you know, work out of office. |
| 0:35.0 | All of those things that Mitch said are true. |
| 0:38.8 | A hundred percent true about our friend Doug Bofone. |
| 0:41.9 | Doug Bofone, long time Chicago Bears linebacker. |
| 0:45.7 | Just, you know, son of a coal miner. |
| 0:48.4 | Pennsylvania guy. |
| 0:50.2 | Not just a guy I would eat raw soup out of a can, |
| 0:52.4 | but also a damn good NFL linebacker for a long, long time. |
| 0:57.3 | If you go to the Hall of Fame, |
| 1:00.6 | Doug's not in the Hall of Fame, |
| 1:02.3 | but he's in the Hall of Fame. |
| 1:03.7 | And they haven't broken down by eras in decades. |
| 1:07.6 | And the picture for the 60s is him and butkus so amazing it made it i cried like |
| 1:16.3 | i was like that's our guy yeah it's our guy um he has left us but amazingly we still have access |
| 1:23.7 | to him to heavenly dog we're the only show town, the only media entity anywhere that has access to Heavenly |
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