Chris Canty Gets Caleb Williams WRONG! | National Media Keeps Doubting Chicago Bears QB

In a moment where Caleb Williams is simply celebrating the win, expressing how much he understands how the team, what the team means to Chicago, how far the fans are willing to travel. It just seems like the national media is willfully ignorant to what was being said. So now we got to address. Now we have to talk about whether or not the Chicago Bears truly are the team of Chicago. If Chicago is a football town. Which, if you're from the town, this ain't even a conversation. But national media has taken it so far, they've made it a talking point on not one but two separate days. When we should just simply be talking about the Bears winning. So as a Chicago win to Chicago wins, the Windy City Breeze and Breeze Nation got to tell the national media what Chicago is. It is a football town. Caleb Williams did not say anything wrong when he expressed the fact. That even during the 90s, Chicago was a football town. Now, mind you, even if they want to sit there and go as far as to say that he's wrong, which he ain't, it's still something he was told. He ain't from here. He ain't from Chicago. He's only being told the history. He's receiving it as it's being told to him. Now, here's the thing. Again, he is not wrong. What's disappointing about this whole conversation is it not just not one, not two, but three separate journalists or whatever you want to call them at this point stood 10 toes down on a point that they knew they have to know. It's just wrong. I've never seen so many comments on a video or so many comments on. On any of their Twitters, which is a lot of them, Chris Canty specifically, since he wanted to sit there and call Caleb a goofy, which, hey, listen, you sounded better saying it than Morris Chestnut did, so I'll give you that. But at the end of the day, the real goofy in the room was you. Can't say what I really want to say, but if you're from the town, you know what I want to say, because you just loud and wrong. Stephen A. Smith. Love Stephen A. Part of why I even wanted to get into this business is because of Stephen A. Love Stephen A, but sometimes Stephen A is just loud and wrong. And for the first time in a long time, I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with Skip Bayless, of all people, which, again, is a highly esteemed journalist. He's done a lot. Not going to make it seem as if Skip Bayless wasn't the guy or is one of those guys in this space. It is what it is, whether you like his opinion or not. But their segment today cooked that man. Why? Because Chicago has always been and will always be a football town. Now, here's the real here's the real conversation, right? Because it seems as if now the goalpost is slightly moving and a lot of context is being taken out. You know, he's the argument has become, oh, well, when Jordan was winning, you know, it was nothing mattered. And he's so iconic. And all of those things are true. Jordan was winning, especially toward that second three-peat at a time when the Bears sucked. We all can agree with that. But even with the Bears sucking, they were less than 10 years, especially during the first three-peat, less than 10 years from a Super Bowl, which, by the way, most people would consider winning a Super Bowl to be harder than winning an NBA championship. Whether you agree with that or not is up to you and whether you're a respective sport. I've been a basketball fan through and through. I kid you not. I have fought this fight for a long time until I came to really appreciate just how intricate and complicated football can be, especially with all these moving pieces. It is a harder sport to win at the highest level. They play fewer games. It's physical. Football is a real grit and grind sport, and that is the essence of what Chicago is. What I hate to see is how so many people from the national media, some who may have never even cared about what Chicago really represents, or even the Bears, and I get it. We've been squalor for so long that I can sit there and understand why the Bears wouldn't be a blimp on your radar. But now that we are, please understand, even with Jordan, if the Bears were winning like we are now, during the time that Jordan played, it'd be a real conversation. Because I can guarantee you, and it probably happened. I saw a statistic that said that the playoff game that the Bears had in 90, we lost, clearly we lost, had viewership of about 20 million households, 20 to 25 to be exact. That one game, which we lost, that was equal to the average viewership of the NBA Finals. Now, I could be getting this misconstrued, but I do believe that that was that. Everyone wants to pick to, what do they call it, they just want to pick one specific year. Yeah, the year everyone knew Mike was probably going to retire and stuff like that. Yeah, that year? Yeah, absolutely. Everyone watched that. Hope the Bears also sucked then, too. Newsflash, finals happened in June. May, June, wouldn't have been no football to watch. So you can't really compare that either. But if they were on at the same time, people are watching the band. Now, here's a secondary part to this because I feel like I'm preaching to the choir. Most of us kind of understood what Caleb meant. It's kind of weird that they took this negative spin. Don't get it. I frankly don't care. We can kind of expect stuff like that. But here's a conversation I got to have for my Chicagoans, especially my younger ones, because now the conversation is becoming, well, Jordan wasn't all that hot. Slow your roll, James. Listen, you're speeding. Cool out. What we're not going to do, because I understand that we're winning as a football team and organization and how much it means, I get it. What we're not going to do is use this as an opportunity to disrespect Michael Jordan. We just so happen to understand that this is a football town. But let's be very clear. That was the only thing going in the 90s, late 90s. And that's kind of why this conversation is so important, pivotal for like Stephen A and Chris Canty and stuff like that. There is a point where you have to understand that there was a iconic moment to the point where even Caleb Williams and his acrobatic jump throw is compared to Michael Jordan's dunk. The iconic nature of Michael Jordan is still legitimate. And we don't want to sit here. I'm not going to sit here. I saw it on the comments about Michael Jordan. Slow your roll. It's okay to appreciate the Chicago Bears and understand what that, you know, natively means to Chicago while also appreciating what Michael Jordan did. Now, I only see the find that only with a younger demographic. People born '98, 2000 and after. Anybody born before then, they typically just, they don't go that route. But I'm seeing a lot of that. It's like, I need you to slow down. I need you to slow down. Both things could be true. Chicago is a Chicago Bears town, but Michael Jordan was probably the most important man walking around in sports, especially when he was playing, because the Bears sucked at that time. That's just, this is called a spade a spade, right? But that has nothing to do with the fact that people are intentionally, I call it willful ignorance. I can sit there and handle a mistake, but willful ignorance is a no-go, especially on a national front. He wasn't wrong. Many Chicagoans would tell you that. Football, by and large, has a larger fan base than the NBA. As one movie or one documentary said, it replaced God on Sunday for many people. It is that. Football, whether it be college or NFL, is just a bigger sport. It is America's sport. Some would argue baseball, but all in all. Again, as Chicago wins, we got to tell them what Chicago is. That is not, Caleb wasn't wrong. And anybody from Chicago, truthfully, born and raised, been around, even if you never even liked football, you understood football time. I want to hear your thoughts, though. How do you feel about the national media, how they portrayed this, the willful ignorance they calling around it? Give me your thoughts. Whether it's love, whether it's putting a chat, I'll be in there with you. Till next time. Peace.