RIP Les Grobstein

[TallTitan34]

Overnight host on 670 The Score.

On the way home from late night Marquette games I would text in a 70s or 80s Marquette comment ("I haven't seen this intensity from a Marquette team since Al McGuire") and Les would go off on some great Marquette stories.

Crazy guy that will be missed.

[Lennys Tap]

Les was perfect for the over night shift - it let him ramble -his specialty - without having to talk to callers, guests, etc.

That said, he seemed like a really hard working, decent guy.

[Goose]

Wow, I did not know he passed away. I very much enjoyed listening Les. He made a lot of late night/early morning car rides on biz trips a bit more enjoyable. This news makes me sad.

[Uncle Rico]

Overnight host on 670 The Score.

On the way home from late night Marquette games I would text in a 70s or 80s Marquette comment ("I haven't seen this intensity from a Marquette team since Al McGuire") and Les would go off on some great Marquette stories.

Crazy guy that will be missed.

The Grobber was great. 

[Dish]

This is a huge bummer, there will never be another Grobber. He was the perfect overnight host. I would text in all the time with awful takes, just to see if he'd read it, and he always would. I recently texted him "Bring back Ditka as coach!" and sure enough he read it on air.

I really can't imagine Score overnights without him, he was an institution. RIP.

[LloydsLegs]

He was unlistenable.

Les may have been a very nice person (I have no idea); he loved sports; he knew a lot of sports history.

But the reason that he was "perfect for overnights" was that very few were listening.  He was terrible on the radio.

R.I.P. 

[The Sultan]

He was unlistenable.

Les may have been a very nice person (I have no idea); he loved sports; he knew a lot of sports history.

But the reason that he was "perfect for overnights" was that very few were listening.  He was terrible on the radio.

R.I.P. 

Hope you aren't in the eulogy writing business.  (The "R.I.P." at the end was a nice touch though.)

[LloydsLegs]

FBM, I would also say that you may have been a nice person (I have no idea), and add an R.I.P. (and I would mean it). 

 

[The Sultan]

FBM, I would also say that you may have been a nice person (I have no idea), and add an R.I.P. (and I would mean it). 

 

"His posts on Scoop sucked.  He may have been a nice person though.  R.I.P."

I'll take it!

[tower912]

I think that will be the universal eulogy.

[TallTitan34]

Jon Greenberg just told a story about being in a stadium after the game and everyone was clearing out around 11 so he asked the security guard how long he had to stay. The security guard said until the last guy leaves. Greenberg looks over and Les is setting up his equipment to do his overnight show from the stadium.

[MU82]

The Grobber was a Chicago media throw-back and a real piece of work. The press boxes there won't be the same without him.

He also was the guy who turned arguably the most famous (or infamous) postgame Chicago press conference ever -- Lee Elia's tirade against Cubbie fans -- into a national story and a Chicago legend.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/01/17/les-grobstein-legend-among-chicago-sportscasters-dies-69/6555117001/

[lawdog77]

I remember riding the school bus listening to Larry Lujack, little snot nosed Tommy, and Les Grobstein. Quite the combination. Just means that I am old.

[NolongerWarriors]

Used to listen to Les when he was on with Dahl and Meier on WLS in the 80's.

[Blue Horseshoe]

Nice tribute from Tannehill

https://soundcloud.com/christannehill/lesgrobstein?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Bring back T-Dub overnights

[TallTitan34]

Nice tribute from Tannehill

https://soundcloud.com/christannehill/lesgrobstein?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

No one does it better than Chris Tannehill.

[dgies9156]

I best remember the Grobber from his time with Larry Lujack.

Lujack would hurl it at the Grobber in a way only Lujack could. The Grobber was the guy who fired back at Lujack. Not done and usually not done well when it was done in Chicago.