No more Bourbonnais for the Bears

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Host Laurence Holmes is joined by NBC Sports Chicago Bears writer Bryan Perez and NBC Sports writer James Neveau as they discuss the Bears moving their training camp from the Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, to the Halas Hall practice facility in Lake Forest.(2:04) - Reactions to the Bears(7:00) - Fans are losing with this move (11:30) - Bourbonnais community will be affected by this move(19:30) - Stories of Bears training camp(23:20) - The Bears better get another quarterback in here(27:40) - Laurence wraps it upSee 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	Coming up on the under center podcast, brought to you by sprinkler fitters union local 281.
0:11.0	The Bears have made a decision on where their summer home is going to be, and it's no longer going to be in Bourbon A, Illinois.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about it with Brian Perez and James Nouveau next on the Undercenter
0:24.7	podcast.
0:25.9	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:30.2	It means everything to me.
0:31.3	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:40.3	The history of it, I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:49.3	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the running back position
0:58.1	with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.
1:02.5	So being a bear means everything.
1:04.4	What more can you say?
1:10.6	Welcome in to the Undercenter podcast. I'm Lauren Tomes, joined by NBC Sports Chicago's
1:16.9	Bears writer, Brian Perez, and NBC Sports James Nevo. We've got two guys here with a lot of knowledge
1:26.7	about this organization and this franchise.
1:29.8	And with James, we also have someone who lives in the Bradley-Burbanay area that can speak to this big story today.
1:39.7	The Bears put out a release saying that they are no longer going to have their training
1:46.9	camp at Olivet Nazarene University. They're going to bring their training camp back to
1:52.6	Hallis Hall, which it was in the late 70s and early 80s. Gentlemen, James, I'll start with you.
1:59.3	What was your reaction when you heard that the Bears were leaving O&U?
2:04.3	There wasn't exactly a lot of surprise.
2:06.4	I mean, we've all seen the renovations they've done to Halas Hall.
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