We avoided all attempts at any Remember The Titans jokes, and instead started with a few minutes of talk about Mike D. nearly needing to crack some heads during his election judge stint on Tuesday. But then it was time to remember the Houston Oilers, a coach with a perfect record (for a while), Jeff Fisher's incredible ability to go 7-9 or 8-8, the Liberty Bowl, Bud Adams' toupee, NFL fight songs, Dan Pastorini, an OT game that ended with a safety, Buddy Ryan punching guys, and why it's probably...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Andy and Mike P. look back at another stunning Bears game. They ponder the magnificence of the long awaited Mitch Package, wonder what good a visorless Matt Nagy is, scoff at the the idiocy of thinking switching back to Trubisky would do any good, marvel at a punt returner that actually returns punts, and try to figure out how an NFL team can be completely befuddled by a malfunctioning quarterback helmet receiver. They also look ahead to the game with the Titans and make fun of Dan Pompei....
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min
It's Saints week and man do Andy and Mike D. have crap to remember. There's the 2006 NFC Championship Game, which is easily the greatest moment in Bears history since Super Bowl XX (well, that or the time they ruined the Brett Favre jersey retirement by beating the Packers in Lambeau), and there are many more. What do you remember about Leon Johnson? Yes, THAT. They also talk about the Reuschel Brothers and George Brett and Bo Jackson. It fits, you'll see. And, do you remember how involved in th...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Mike P. and Andy try to process the Bears ill-fated trip to LA. They try to do the kick return math for Cordarrelle Patterson, try to figure out what it is that Ted Ginn Jr. does and what Matt Nagy's fascination with Demetrius Harris is. How many of Nagy's 25 career wins are against winning teams? He probably would rather you don't know. Did former Bears great Brian Griese cause some QB room tension on Monday night? And what did he say was experiencing leakage? They also have some Netflix recomm...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 22 min
A famous Eric Dickerson-Mike Singletary collision, a long-lost Bears Danish kicker, two football teams from Cleveland, John Robinson and John Madden sitting in a parked RV in Madden's driveway drinking Vodka and Ensure and much more highlight this week's installment of Remember This Crap? with Andy and Mike D. You're going to learn that the Fearsome Foursome was not a unique nickname and that it was all BS anyway, who will play former Rams coach Ray Malavasi in the long overdue movie of his life...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The Bears are 5-1 and Mike P. and Andy try to focus on the positive since that's a hell of a lot better than we expected at this point. Are they the worst 5-1 team in NFL history? They have stats that prove they aren't! The guys go over some of Matt Nagy's finest moments on Sunday, talk about the dominant Bears defense, and how the Zoom meetings with all nine offensive coordinators must go. They also discuss the current state of the entertainment industry in LA (seriously) look ahead to Bears-Ra...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The Panthers are next up for the Bears, so Andy and Mike D. kick things off this week with great moments in that rivalry's history (there aren't many), but one of the guys got thrown off an airplane during their playoff game. Dom Capers hair, Steve Smith emasculating the 2005 Bears, Jerry Richardson's Saddam-esque statue and Eddie Berlin all get some run in this week's episode. Then, it's on to two of our all-time favorite baseball idiots. Tony LaRussa's back in the news, and so is Andy's former...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 14 min
The Bears beat the Bucs (really) and Andy and Mike P. break it down. They prove they can count to three which is at least as many as Tom Brady can. They discuss the kicker clown car, Andy's terrible movie depth perception, how every team should have a coach whose only duty is to tell the head coach what the other team doesn't want you to do. Kyle Fuller's spleen removal of Ke'Shawn Vaughn, Khalil Mack throwing a 340 lineman in the air with one arm, Nick Foles going from terrible to good in a bli...
Oct 10, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Mike D. and Andy are back to Remember This Crap, and this week they kick it off with the Bears next opponent, the illustrious Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Andy gets his kickers confused and calls John McKay Jim, and Mike thinks Sean McVay is related to him. But then things get good and they recall great moments in Bears-Bucs history (if there are any), Don Criqui's on-air blunder, Brett Musberger giving secret point spreads, and a long list of truly funny McKay quotes. Vinny Testaverde's color blindnes...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Bears somehow managed to get their ass kicked in every way and only lose by eight points on Sunday. Andy and Mike Pusateri are concerned how the short week before Thursday night's game with Tampa will affect...the podcast. If you give Matt Nagy an excuse to not run the ball, he'll take it. They discuss how not even Ryan Nall could save the Bears, wonder if anybody on the team knows that touchbacks go to the 25 these days, wonder what might have been if Khalil Mack had caught his interception...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 4 min
It's time for Andy and Mike D. to Remember This Crap. With the Colts coming to town Andy harkens back to a charming little story about destroying a lamp as a young lad on the day of the Bears last visit to Baltimore. They guys try to figure out why Walter Payton only rushed three yards in a game, and why any team would draft a punter in the top half of the first round. Mike tries to explain why his brother wouldn't dress in drag to pick up some Super Bowl tickets. Andy laments his lost literary ...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Baseball's playoffs are going to be in your face Tuesday and Wednesday, and after wandering through the pandemic wilderness for many fraught months, Sam and Andy are here to let you know it's OK to be excited about it, and (gasp!) about the Cubs' chances. Will Kris Bryant's heel turn, Adbert Alzolay's new slider, and Yu just being Yu be enough to subdue the mostly anonymous Marlins? You'll have to listen to find out. They also talk about what the hell the Cubs were doing with Brailyn Marquez on ...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Another week another ridiculous win by the Bears, and we'll gladly take it. This time, the Bears broke the glass on the Emergency Quarterback case and out came Nick Foles. Is this the end for Mitch? If the move makes the Bears more competent does it raise their ceiling at all? Andy and Mike Pusateri answer these questions and more, including why are opposing coaches giving games to the Bears, where's the defense, why did the Falcons stop running the ball, is holding still a penalty, and what the...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Andy and Kyle try to make sense of the Cubs disappearing offense, and especially what has to happen for them to lose the division with three games to go. There's even a rare in-podcast edit/correction from Andy because he completely butchered the tiebreaker scenario on the first try. Go figure. Basically, if the Cardinals go to Detroit on Monday it's a bad thing for the Cubs. They also try to figure out which teams the Cubs might still draw in the wild card round of the playoffs. Spoiler alert, ...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min
It's time to Remember This Crap. Andy and Mike Donohue go over the long, distinguished history of the Atlanta Falcons, and mercifully do not mention Deion Sanders once. They do go through the strange history of Falcons' coaches committing career suicide, their impressive recent run of quarterbacks, a horrific day (for them) at Soldier(s) Field in 1985, why would any one name their kid Dick Shiner or June Sheldon Jones III? We relive a great Bears win over the Falcons in 2001 and a horrific loss ...
Sep 23, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Andy and Mike Pusateri didn't even wait for the win over the Giants to fully digest before they jumped in and talked about reverse Mitch, Saquon's knee, the Ropers, Larry Dallas, Bobby Massie's new contract demands, new rules suggestions, curious fourth down decisions, how much it would have sucked to get beat on a final drive orchestrated by Jason Garrett, and they look ahead to a matchup with a psychologically ruined Falcons team.
Sep 20, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Andy is joined by Sam to talk about a week of walk offs, stunning comebacks and a no-hitter, and for once, all the good stuff was in the Cubs' favor. We could get used to this. The playoffs are a lock now, and the Cubs will start their Bubble Boy prep next week. Has the back end of the rotation basically injured and underperformed itself back into the Cubs' plans for 2021? Is Craig Kimbrel good? Why is Rex Brothers anything? Javy is doing Javy Things. Why is Tob Manford* intent on forever screwi...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The critically-acclaimed podcast where Andy and Mike Donohue remember some crap is back! Well, some of our friends really like it. The conceit is the same, we start on one topic (we start this on on this week's Bears opponent, the New York Giants) and we see where we end up. From Tom Coughlin's frozen vaseline face to the Dan Fouts Chargers to Lynn Dickey to Rolf Benirschke to Augustana great Ken Anderson to Brett Favre's last play and lots of stuff in between. Buy the ticket (it's free) and tak...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min
We got our first look at the new and improved Mitch Trubisky and honestly, it looked an awful like the same old...stuff. Thankfully, Mitch's inexplicable domination of the LIons continued with a whirlwind fourth quarter comeback. Andy and Mike Pusateri break down the win, discuss whatever it was Dick Stockton was looking at, Mitch Patricia's largesse and terrible decision making, the rumored Bears defense, what it's like when the Bears actually run the ball, DirecTV and look ahead to the Giants ...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Sam and Andy take a look at the Cubs remaining schedule and try to find the few wins they'll need to nail down a playoff spot. Sam asks if we should just get used to Kris Bryant being injured forever and how that increases or decreases his odds of being a Cub long-term. They revisit the exciting Steven Souza era, wonder what the hell goes on in South Bend and why Brailyn Marquez is trapped there. What's an Ildemaro Vargas, anyway and why are he and Billy Hamilton suddenly holding down the end of...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 5 min
In the best idea for a podcast ever, Mike Donohue joins Andy as they follow a simple premise. They talk about some random Bears stuff and see where it goes. Well, the question, "Who is the first Bears' quarterback you really remember" turns into Andy telling a story about a baker who didn't know Walter Payton was black, the USFL trading teams between Arizona and Chicago, Tim Spencer, Trumaine Johnson, Dodgers reliever Steve Howe, a Bears' jersey with a first name on it, Mike Sharperson, and much...
Sep 11, 2020•59 min
It's a new season and a new lineup for the Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast. Actor/comedian Mike Pusateri joins Andy to talk about being in a Super Bowl commercial with Deion Sanders and preview the Bears 2020 season. With no preseason do we even know who's on the roster? How many tight ends did they finally cut down to, do they have any running backs? Will they need a kicker? How many wins will it take to get into the expanded playoffs and do the Bears have a chance to get there? Kaiser Wilhelm...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 15 min
It's the MLB trade deadline and people actually got traded, and the Cubs tried to cram human people into human sized holes on their roster. Andy, Sam and Kyle break down the Cubs moves and what the rest of the NL Central did. Whether the player was deeply flawed, just plain bad or currently injured they still amount to upgrades in three areas the Cubs badly needed upgrading in. Then, they try to figure out what the hell the Cubs were doing with their bullpen over the weekend, they say goodbye to...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 26 min
The guys are Kyle-less for this one, but Andy and Sam soldier on and try to make sense of winning three games in three days against the Cardinals and somehow losing two. They discuss if Javy has forgotten right field exists, wonder if the Cubs have installed a sign-up calendar for slumps so they don't overlap and bemoan yet another season where the team tries to get Kris Bryant to play through an injury that would likely just heal if they'd let it. Andy pitches his ideas to improve Marquee's gra...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Andy, Sam and Kyle discuss the Cubs' 10-2 start (while in the background they get smoked by the hapless Royals) and play a fun game that will soon be sweeping the nation titled, "Good Sh*t or Bull Sh*t." They look at the starts of many of the Cubs and try to figure out if that performance, good or bad is the real thing or an illusion. They try to figure out where Jose Quintana should go when he returns from injury, if this is the end of the road for Albert Almora and just what the hell was that ...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Andy, Sam and Kyle have actual Cubs games to discuss and they dig into the soggy underbelly of the team--it's bullpen. What's more amazing, a decade plus and still no arms produced from the farm system, or the ponderous but historic efforts last week by both Craig Kimbrel and Dillon Maples? Andy debuts a new segment, "Is this joke too mean?" They rehash a full week of Marquee programming, try to figure out just who Ryan Dempster is supposed to amuse and why Taylor McGregor is at the games. Then ...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 20
Andy, Kyle and Sam are back to talk about the 2020 baseball season, why the playoffs were expanded at the last second, why Dillon Maples is still around, and how hard it will be for the Cubs to miss the playoffs. Andy dispels three annoying myths about baseball roster constructiona, Kyle has been watching Marquee and he has thoughts, Sam has thoughts about pretty much everything. They discuss what new rules are unlikely to ever go away and who the real victims are in the Blue Jays homelessness. ...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Baseball season's back (sorta) and so are Andy, Sam and Kyle to talk about the re-start, whether it's a good idea (you can probably guess) what would make this weird, short, season worth watching, how the Cubs should approach it and Andy describes what the Marquee Sports Network has actually been like so far to two guys who can't get it. And, Andy and Sam tell stories about saying and writing things that got them or people close to them in trouble. It's great to be back!
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Kelly Dwyer joins Andy to put a bow on The Last Dance. Among the topics they flog are why Michael Jordan really hates Scott Burrell, why Reggie Miller is wrong about everything, who the biggest omission from the documentary is, what's up with Toni's camera angle, why Dan Majerle belonged in Phoenix, how "close" did the Bulls ever really come to losing, 1.8 seconds, "the Mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays," Cedric Ceballos' jet ski, why Jerry Krause deserved it, but why does Jerry Reinsdorf alway...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Bruce joins Andy to talk about the different return to play scenarios for baseball, the "unintended" consequences of a short season that baseball will inevitably use to change the game permanently (for good and bad), who the biggest redass on the Cubs is and why it's a good thing, the next Cub to get a statue, why Bruce has never won an Emmy, the Sosa-McGwire documentary, what the Rickettses deal with Sosa is and other Cubs' self-inflicted PR disasters, and fun with the 1995 Cubs.
May 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 25
