The Chicago Bears dropped to 2-7 on the season over the weekend. 670 The Score callers aren’t necessarily handling the season well, but they provided moments of levity for midday host Dan Bernstein.
While appearing on the final segment of Mully & Haugh Monday, Bernstein joked that professional writers couldn’t come up with some of the topics sports radio callers in the city wanted to discuss.
“I’ve talked to the engineers — I’ve been listening since I got in the car — and we are disconnecting the phone. We are going through every wire, every single transistor, every wire and we’re fumigating them,” said Bernstein. “We’re cleaning, we’re scraping them, we’re cleaning them out. We are dousing them in disinfectant and bleach. I’ve never heard anything like this in my life. I swear to God, if you wrote a sketch, if you wrote a parody of Chicago, post-Bears sports radio, you would get laughed out of the writer’s room for writing some of the calls that you guys took today.”
Morning host Mike Mulligan defended the show’s callers from the criticism, saying “I think we have good callers and I love our listeners and I wish you would not be mean to them.”
“Well, they have to stop being stupid,” Bernstein said.
The 670 The Score midday host’s biggest issue, it appears, is with a caller claiming Bears backup QB Tyson Bagent is similar to a “first-year Brett Favre or Peyton Manning”.
