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Bears fans, this is Take the North. What's the reason, Doc? It's here. With your host. All these guys.
Dan Wiederer. The whole key to sustaining success in this league is to have a quarterback play that is top tier and can consistently push you down those roads. And Mark Grody. We're allowed to at this point. Bears fans are allowed to right now dream big and predict what you want out of the season. We're going to take the North and never give it back. Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to the Take the North podcast along with Mr. I-L-L-I-N-I, Dan Weider of The Athletic, freshly returned from the owner's meetings in Phoenix, Arizona. And if you're watching on video, popping up and showing off all of his orangeness, I am Mark Rohde of 104.3 The Score. Dan and I finally back together in the great, big, beautiful city of Chicago.
And this is going to be a very special edition of Listen to This. We are going to hear from several people that Dan spoke to at the owner's meeting, including Robert Sala on Caleb Williams. We'll hear from Ryan Poles, Kevin Warren, Ben Johnson, all sorts of good stuff. But, Dan, how are you? Look at this guy. Just for people who are not watching the video, and we always invite you to check out the video, even if you listen from the auditory standpoint only, Dan, right now. is wearing his Illini baseball cap and an orange crush t-shirt, which is the fan section. Right, Weedzy? Student section. Yeah, the student section. Just so you know, I've given myself like a 72 to 96 hour window to be real, real obnoxious about this.
And so we're smack dab in the middle of it. Listen, like there was a year probably about a decade ago when Northwestern basketball got hot and every Northwestern alum came out of the woodworks and had to tell you all about that. Talking about you, Kevin Fishbane. There's times when Syracuse gets hot and everybody comes out of the woodwork to tell you how good they are.
Hey, Zach, save me. How's it going, buddy?
This is my chance. This is my chance to shine here, Grody. And so this morning, as I was starting to get ready for this trip down to Indianapolis, I went down in the dungeon in our house and found a box that's amongst the attic, the crawl space, I guess you'd call it, that was called Vintage T's. And inside vintage tees, Grody, was this 1997-98 Orange Crush shirt. At that point in my life, I would have been approaching my 21st birthday, or maybe I'd already experienced it. Yeah, approaching my 21st birthday, that team, my God. That's a long time ago now. I was living in a house on Second Street down in Champaign that when we moved out of that house, we were sure it was going to be bulldozed within like three months.
It's still standing today, Grody. So that gives you a little indication here. But this shirt that I'm wearing has signatures all over it from that team. And you went to your archives to look up some of the names that were on this 1997-98 Big Ten Championship team and stumbled upon some connections to yourself. Yeah. I mean, the first name that pops off the page for me is Sergio McClain, who was a very prominent Illini. His father, Wayne McClain, ended up being an assistant and Wayne McClain and Sergio McClain. were almost as famous for going to Illinois as they were famous for being at Peoria Manual. While you were down in Champaign screwing around and drinking and doing whatever you did, old Marky Mark was on his first job in radio, which was in Peoria, Illinois.
So I had the privilege to cover what was, honest to God, Peoria was the pipeline in those Lon Kruger years.
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