Recently in Sports-talk radio Category

At least everybody who was calling in to the Chicago-based sports talk shows on Thursday night did.
Rarely has there been such unanimity on such a controversial sports topic.
In the Locker Room, by the way, we are solidly behind Jay Cutler and glad to see Kyle Orton go.
Now, the Bears just need to come up with a couple of solid possession receivers. There are some oldies but goodies on the scrap heap right now, such as Tori Holt. One wonders which grizzled-veteran type the Bears should pursue to give Cutler some solid targets to throw to.

After 16-plus years as pretty much the face of Chicago sport-talk radio station WSCR -- the score -- Mike North has been relieved of his duties as morning drive-time host.

In The Locker Room, the view is that it, indeed, was time for him to go.

North deserves a ton of credit for stretching his 15 minutes of fame into 16 years. But the truth is, he carved out his radio niche being the voice of the common man -- the hot-dog vendor, if you will. Only, over time, he no longer was the common man.

And when he crossed that line from common man to elitest, the ball game, so to speak, was over.

Same thing actually happened to longtime Chicago radio personalities Johnny Brandmeier and Steve Dahl. While they both are still around, there ratings are infantismile compared to back 15-20 years ago when they RULED the airwaves. Now, they are time and space fillers.
Both of them, like North, carved out their niche as the common man. And then, due to their success, they weren't so common anymore.
The only radio guy who actually was able to pull off that common-man thing after striking it rich was the late Bob Collins on WGN. Don't know why he was able to pull it off, but he's the only one we in The Locker Room can remember being able to do it.

Heard this on the radio after the Bears beat the New Orleans Saints on Sunday and it just seemed so silly ….