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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Remembering coach Dave McGinnis, who's forever connected to The Score

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes remembered former Bears assistant coach Dave McGinnis, who recently passed away at age 74.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Eagle and Home Show flashback, flashback.

0:03.9

Coach, let me tell you something.

0:05.1

Do you guys come to Nashville?

0:07.5

Coach Mack knows a few places here.

0:09.3

Come on.

0:09.7

Let's go.

0:10.6

I love it.

0:11.3

Yeah, seriously, you have found the right perspective with which to carry on with your football life.

0:17.0

I mean, honestly, to live life.

0:20.0

There's a lot here. You don't have to be a football

0:22.4

coach to get what Coach Mack is putting down right now, and I think it's really wonderful.

0:27.9

Coach, we always love when you visit. Thank you so much for picking up the phone.

0:31.2

Guys, always for you guys. I'm serious. If you're ever in Nashville, give me a call. I think you'll

0:36.8

enjoy it. Dave McG, give me a call. I think you'll enjoy it.

0:47.3

Dave McGinnis, a wonderful man, passed away yesterday. A life lived inside of football.

0:54.4

Player, coach, commentator, friend, fan, great dude.

0:57.6

It made me very sad finding that out.

1:10.5

And the funniest thing that made me chuckle inside of like a little bit of the grief is Dan Pompeii sharing with everyone that you know what Dave McGuinness's nickname was?

1:12.8

The Iceman. The Iceman. Because he would deliver his homespun wisdom with a Texas twang while wearing aviator's sunglasses

1:21.0

and the players for the bears called him Iceman after Val Kilmer's character and Top Gun.

1:31.3

Dan Pompei's obit is beautiful, of course. And you should read it.

1:32.3

I mean, imagine when Buddy Ryan leaves after winning a Super Bowl with the Bears

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