Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - We listen back to Terry Boers reflect on his career with The Score

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris listened back to legendary Score host Terry Boers' past comments reflecting on his career at the station. Boers passed away Friday.

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It's halftime here on Rahimi Harris and Grotie on 670 to score. Mitch Rosen was on with us at 10 o'clock and announced that tomorrow we are honoring Terry by having a celebration of life from noon until 7. Matt Spiegel is hosting and score personalities from past score shows are going to be on. Did you see what I said there? That doesn't even make any sense. Point being, you should listen. And thank you to everybody who called in to remember him as well. We wanted to keep it going.

This is a clip from the day Terry Boers announced that after 25 years, he was retiring here at 670 the score. I'm going to keep this fairly simple, and I want to emphasize that this decision was made a long time ago. Decision was actually made before my illness, which has certain. hastened in some ways a decision. It's made it a very, very difficult year for me. And any time I have to be away from as much work as I've been from, as I've had to do this year, it makes me sad, makes me feel bad. It has done so since mid-June. And I still feel the same way today. And a lot of it swirls around work. And you're probably saying, what's wrong with you? Well, you know, I don't know. But anyway, I want to emphasize that the way this year is gone for me, which is horribly, has nothing to do with this decision, which is a decision to retire, which will happen at the end of this year.

My last show will be January 5th. So I do this, wanting you to understand. It's been a very difficult year, and it wasn't a difficult decision to make. But I want you to understand that I'm not being driven from the business. I'm not being as disappointing as all this has been to me because I'm a guy who's worked for 50 years, and I would have happily worked the last six months of this as well every damn day. It hasn't turned out that way, and I don't know that it ever will again. I mean, I couldn't, even if I wanted to say myself, well, hold off a while.

No, I can't because I don't know what the future holds. I really don't. And I know that if I retire, which I was going to do, I wanted to make a 25 years. You wonder what do you want? 25 years started on January 2nd, 1991, at the score, or 1992, and this would be 25 years on January 2nd of this year. I wanted to make it to 25 years, and you say, what's wrong? I don't know why.

I just did. It'd be 20 years of writing for a living and 25 years of doing this for a living, and I can promise you that these last 25 years have been a hell of a lot better than the first 20, and it's meant the world to me. And it continues to do so. it continues to do so even as I face the last stages of it. So, you know, I do it. Column experience it better than I can probably at this point.

Now you're doing fine. I think there's a reaching point. And I reached it a while ago, just in general. And then when this other breaking point hit me, as hard as it hit me, I had a lot of time to reflect, a lot of time to think about it a lot of time, because nothing was ever announced, nothing was ever said publicly or anything about it. So I could have changed my mind at any point. And I don't think at this point I can rely on it.

I can't do it. I can't possibly face this again because missing what I missed this year, including the Cubs, although I was there for a week, wasn't I, the World Series opener? I just, it was tough on me in every way possible, not only physically, but mentally. And I hate to be away. I just hate to miss what we missed, what I missed. and I thank Dan and everybody who filled in, but I don't ever want to face that again.

So we will gradually, I have plenty to do in this last month or so here. I have doctor appointments and everything else that continues to go on. It will go on for a while. And I will continue to miss some time, but not like I did last time. I will be here most days. At least I will try because you never know what's going to happen. You never know what's going to bring,

and especially with this thing, you can never predict. You just don't know how you're going to feel from one day or the next. You don't know how you're going to feel from one minute to the next. So all of that combined with what I knew before this that I wanted to make it to 25 years. I'm going to make it to 25 years, damn it. That much I've done. I don't know about what else I can do at this point. But January 5th, I promise you, will be a last show and a very special one.

For me, anyway, I don't know if I'll be for others. But we're sort of planning it right now and it's getting done. And I think everybody here who has been so patient. with me over all these years, and particularly this year, and Dan in particular, for putting up with what I know is difficult to do. Stop it. And Matt and Chris and everybody else, Mitch, I mean, you really start to find out who your real friends are, and believe me, I found out the hard way.

I should have known. I should have known all along. But anyway, so I bow out. and I don't know what's going to happen here. I don't know if you do. I don't know what's going to happen. We'll see. But whatever it is, it'll be fine because Dan is great at what he does.

But I will be here as much as I possibly can, and I don't see anything standing on my way. If I'm surviving the way I feel these days is better than I did the first time around when I came back probably too early. But I'm going to try Lawrence to hang in there as long as I can. And I'm really looking forward to the last show because I think it's going to touch home with a lot of people who've listened to this station forever. Welcome to Radio Rental. The scariest stories you've ever heard in your life. All told by real people. And off we go.

This wasn't a human being that I saw. There's something here in this house, something out of this world. There was a woman moving through the hall. I stepped back and I was completely alone. Radio Rental is available now. Listen for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. That was in 2017. That was Terry's retirement show.

And he did make it to 25 years. And he would join the score intermittently when he could, like for the 30th anniversary special. That was the party we had a real-time sports. And he would appear on this show very often with Dan Bernstein. And even there, you can tell he was more humble than he should have ever been. And just, again, this has been such an emotional. time for all of us here at the score. And you hear it even in him announcing his retirement,

because just getting through that, you could tell how much this meant to him. You heard about his goal of 25 years. And now with his passing, Terry Boers, I mean, just the outpouring that we've received since we've been on the air today for less than two hours. And in true score fashion. I don't think it should all be us being sad. We've had some requests for some classic audio. We had to narrow it down because we didn't have a lot of time in our halftime segment. So without further ado.

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That was great. You can hear Dan and Terry in the background laughing. Nice work out of Jason Goff on the ones and twos there. Timing is everything, right? Oh, that's a legendary one. There's a lot of classic audio that will be played. I know we had a request for Mike in Milwaukee, but unfortunately, the only cut that we found was eight minutes long,

so we can't do that right now. And a good two and a half minutes was Mike trying to orient himself to time and space. I'm pretty sure. But there will be a celebration. of a lot of the fun times as well. That is coming up, if you miss the news, 12 to 7 tomorrow. That's right, 12 to 7. Honoring an original Terry Boar's Celebration of Life,

which will include former coworkers as well as current and former score personalities. The show will be hosted by Matt Spiegel. It is a true celebration of Terry's life. That's tomorrow starting at noon on The Score and the Odyssey app. Our five on its segment on Rehmi Harrison Grotie is next.