Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
Mitch Rosen discusses the legacy of Score legend Terry Boers (Hour 1)
26 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the significance of Terry Boers in sports radio?
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Save big money at Menards. And you sort of stood up before the media and said, well, you know, this is the way it is. Are you resigned to this fate?
Well, you're the same guy that wrote about me when I did have the fire, that that was the wrong thing to do. So who are you crapping? Well, I'm just asking. Don't crap me.
No, no, no, no. I had an injury last year during the season that kind of shut me back. But it didn't bother you, say, before last year's training camp began, because that was the rumor that you knew you were hurting and that you came and tried anyway. Not to my recollection. So it was all accumulated during last season? I believe we had a bad connection. Did they still crack door-to-door?
Chapter 2: How did Terry Boers influence the culture at The Score?
Yeah, but Crawford is a texter. Just like Les is calling, you're giving traffic boards. Oh, a texter said that? You know why? Because Les cares about mankind. In the afternoon when I would drive back to the city, Boers and Bernstein, right? That was the show. So I got my fill of that, and they made my hour-long drives memorable. Memorable, right? Yes.
Well, we've banned a little bit of the creamy. It's creamy. You're flying boars, and everybody gets peanuts, and if you have an allergy and die, we just... Yes, destroy off the plane. Screw you. Stop flying.
Chapter 3: What memorable moments are shared about Terry Boers?
Your comfort is not more important than the other 140 people on the plane.
Now we're talking. Lizard bastard, get off the plane, then. Go somewhere else. So my favorite thing that's happened in the three hours that we've been here is watching Terry and Layla talk. Like just seeing the two of you interact because you're the two people that have done the most with the least. Well, you know already, don't you? I'm grateful to them for being so kind to me today.
I appreciate that. And I appreciate them in general. As I've said before, and I wrote that without guys like these and women like, there's no show, there's no Boris and Bernstein, nothing happens.
So they're the ones, you know, they always say they're grateful to me. No, I'm grateful to you. So how do I say goodbye to someone who's been with me for my whole damn life? I leave feeling great about what's happened in the last 25 years to this station, and better yet,
Chapter 4: How do the hosts reflect on Terry Boers' legacy?
about what the future is. Because I used to worry about the future. I used to think, what happens? What happens now when all of the old veterans are gone and we're all done? I don't worry anymore. I don't give it a second thought.
There's plenty to go around here, and there will continue to be at this station.
How do we? This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score, and it is a day where, like this past weekend, we don't have a lot of words for a man who knew how to speak with or without them. Terry Boers, an absolute legend of this station, 25 years.
passed away on friday at the age of 75. we heard our news from mitch rosen our station vice president who is here now with us mitch thanks for joining us today
Layla Marshall, good morning. And Tyler and Ray putting that piece of art together, just beautiful. Sad, but beautiful. And Terry, everything you've heard about him on the air and off the air and in our hallways, I mean, it's poignant that I'm looking out the window here in our studio and seeing Terry Board's way.
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Chapter 5: What personal stories do listeners share about Terry Boers?
He was terrific. He was a legend. He was one of the founding on-air people at the score. January 2nd, 1992 on Belmont Avenue. For those that don't know, the score was a daytime station. The sun would go down and turn the station off. Could you imagine a Bears-Packers Monday? You're all excited. And at, for instance, 4.42 in the afternoon, well, we've got to shut it down.
There was no streaming, dating ourselves. But He was just incredible, an incredible person. He cared about people. He took young producers, young on-air hosts under his wings. A great father, four sons, a lovely wife, Carol, who I've been in touch with since Friday.
Chapter 6: How did Terry Boers impact the lives of those around him?
I'll tell a quick story. Terry and I stayed in touch a lot. And we would either email or call around Christmas, just sent him an email, how you doing? No response, not totally unusual. And then Friday morning, this past Friday around 9.30, I sent him a text, hey, how you doing? And his son Joe called me and said, my dad's in hospice. Hospice? You know, I didn't expect that.
And he goes, we don't expect here to last much longer. And at 1.30, he called me and said he had passed. But he was the scorer. And I don't think any of us, you know, the station would be as powerful as it is today without Terry Bores.
It's interesting to listen to all the people who have weighed in since his passing, and it gives you the indication of how much he meant beyond the station itself and really not just even in Chicago, but his impact was everywhere. And it's still... resounds in people who never even met the man, right?
Chapter 7: What are the plans for the celebration of Terry Boers' life?
Right. I mean, there's a radio host in Nashville, Chris Childers, who's from the Chicago area. He put out like 150, 200 words on why he's in the business because of Terry. And then electronic media, Tony Kornheiser, you know, from ESPN said Terry kind of set the movement of print journalists moving over to TV and radio because of Terry Boers.
Terry Boers' sense of humor was unmatched. You know, it's inspired, I think, generations of people around the country when it comes to Boers and Bernstein, especially in how they impacted. I said this before, I'll say it again. They were my inspiration's inspiration. You might be surprised as to how that reach affects people you don't even know. Terry, I think, knew that better than anybody.
You know, his humility paired with his sense of humor and paired with his wit and his knowledge was one of a kind, to say the absolute least. The hard part about all of this is he created such a community, Mitch. And the good part of that is we all got to learn and spend time with him together and play old audio together and learn about the thumbprint that he has left.
The hard part is that we all grieve this together.
Yeah, the audience.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts have about Terry Boers?
And Layla, you know, remember we had a celebration at real time and you were part of that and saw the interaction with you and him. And we talked about you. He listened and he respected what you brought to the score. In that open, he said he worried at times about the future, but then he didn't.
You looked at people in Lawrence who started as a producer and has grown to a top personality in the country, and Speegs and others. It's what the score does. The listeners, the outpouring. Steve Rosenblum on Saturday said, did a show and, you know, a lot of callers. And it's just a community that the score has built.
And listeners don't always agree with topics and, you know, hosts, but it's a community. There was a phrase years ago, scoreheads. And I truly believe it's the brand and it's the people that are on this brand, like both of you and all our shows. And this brand is special. And Terry made it special over the years.
It feels like I feel his presence after not getting the opportunity to work with him. Because every day I sit in this seat and I look through that window and it's honorary Terry Boer's way. And it just kind of sits as this foundational stone of what this station has become. How difficult is it for you personally just weighing like the...
The idea that you're obviously honoring his life, but also celebrating it. I think that's the thing. It's the balance of trying to deal with the pain of it all, but at the same time... The legacy is real.
Yeah. You know, it's funny. So Speaks, Tani, and I, Russ, Matera, our creative production boys, and Ryan Porth, we're on this text chain. And it's like we're reaching out to people and booking people for tomorrow. And I called Speaks. I said, it feels kind of weird. Like, this is kind of fun. And he goes, it should be. We're celebrating, Terry. And we're booking guests and former co-workers.
And Tani, I called Tani. Like, I'm like... Everybody's hurting, right? Everybody had a special relationship with Terry. It's emotional, but it also feels good putting this together. And again, I've been in touch with the family every step of the way, and they feel good about this. Terry did not want a funeral. Those were his wishes. But something like this, they said he would love this.
So when you ask that, everybody's mourning. Everybody mourns in different ways. We know that. But to put together, I think, tomorrow what people are going to enjoy between noon and 7 p.m., you're going to hear voices you haven't heard in years. You're going to hear current voices.
You're going to hear unbelievable production of former elements from the shows in the past that Tani and Russ are working on. We're excited. But again, it was kind of weird when I called Speaks. And he goes, no, we should enjoy this. And I think we should enjoy it. That's what a celebration of life is, right?
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