Anyone old enough to remember the show "Sportswriters on TV" it aired out of Chicago on WGN
It predated the radio and tv sports talk shows and was a room full of cigar smoke and banter. Local sports guys Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley and the young guy Rick Telander from SI. They talked everything from boxing to horse racing and of course the Irish.
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That group, oddly enough, would have been down with the kneelers. Especially Jaust and Telander.
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Gleason was a columnist for both the Southtown in Chicago and the SB Trib
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I remember it well... as pointed out below it started out as a radio show
It was great on the radio. I used to listen to it all the time. It was okay once to got to TV.
At first, I recalled the Boston one, then remembered this one;
which was a great show Loved that Jauss guy....Was the other one more recent, Boston's Bob Ryan, Mike Lupica, ( an irritant), Phllly's Bill Conlin , (Im not recalling last guy)
Mike Lupica was an idiot and an ass. A BC grad by the way. He was wrong about everything.
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Agreed, and when I wrote, "an irritant', I meant Lupica although
the Philly guy was no peach
Local show?
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Yep. Chicago area on SportsVision which later became SportsChannel Chicago.
I think they're all gone except for Rick Telander.
Absolutely. Used to watch it often.
Young guy Telander should be 70 now...
Ha that's it!
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There's a bunch on YouTube. Recall seeing this one where they discussed Kurt Cobain's suicide...
These guys were great, what the hell Nirvana and sports, cigars.
I enjoy this more than the screaming I see and hear today in sport talk.
I remember it well.
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Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN
It was at it's zenith in the mid 80s with those great Bears teams. Except for Rick Telander, I wasn't a big fan of any one of the regulars, but the chemistry between them made the show work. Especially with the eccentric fight promotor, Ben Bentley as the moderator.
Re: Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN
I used to take the wife for an afternoon Sunday drive and would have the 'Sports Writers' on WGN radio. It was started by Chicago Sports Columnist Bill Gleason in the late 1970s. His fellow panelists were Ben Bentley, Bill Jauss and Rick Telander. The show then migrated to television in the mid-1980s. It was unique for its time and was clearly the forerunner of sports talk radio.
That's right, I forgot it was a talk show filmed for TV. I liked it because you always got ND talk.
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Sure.
Posted at 11:34 am on Nov 18, 2020
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sportswriters_on_TV