Former Chicago Bear Kyle Long ”You’ll NEVER see me wear another jersey. EVER!”

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Former Chicago Bear Kyle Long sits with host Laurence Holmes as they do a deep dive into his career as a Bear, why he left football, why he will never wear another uniform, and what he plans to do in post football life.(3:18) - When he decided to leave football(6:39) - Why he won't wear another uniform(7:56) - What's next for Kyle Long?(11:20) - How Olin Kreutz helped him when he was on IR(14:29) - He didn't really have great technique (16:43) - How he got into Twitch(19:36) - Wasn't expecting to be drafted by the Bears(20:30) - Going back to play for the White SoxSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the under center podcast, why did Kyle Long walk away from the Bears?
0:12.1	And why will he never wear another NFL jersey?
0:16.2	Find out next.
0:18.0	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:22.5	It means everything to me.
0:23.6	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:32.6	The history of it, I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchiseises just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:41.3	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the running back position, with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.
0:56.1	So being a bear means everything.
0:57.5	And what more can you say?
1:04.8	Welcome into the Undercenter podcast.
1:05.8	I'm Lawrence Holmes.
1:13.5	The Undercenter podcast is brought to by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281, proud sponsor of our pods on Undercenter and serving Chicagoland for over 100 years.
1:18.0	I had a lot of great interviews on Radio Row.
1:21.7	I think that I say this without offending or at least trying to offend everyone else that we talk to
1:29.0	because we talked to a lot of great people during Super Bowl week and we had a lot of cool
1:33.3	conversations.
1:34.9	This one is the one.
1:37.3	The sit down with Kyle Long is incredible and I'm looking forward to you hearing it.
1:42.6	To give you a little bit of background on what
1:44.4	went down here, we were initially talking to Jay Glazer and the Jay Glazer podcast will be
1:51.4	coming up later on this off season. And we were talking Jay about some of the really cool things
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