Sebastian Maniscalco, ‘Bookie’ bring sports betting to television [Video]

Sebastian Maniscalco winces a little when you ask him about the Chicago Bears.

A team once 4-2 just suffered one of the most embarrassing stretches in franchise history. The only thing worse than the end of the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Detroit Lions was how management fumbled Matt Eberflus’s firing. 

Maniscalco, the star and executive producer of the Max series Bookie, is a native of the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. Understandably, he’s not taking the recent events well. 

“As a Bears fan, I’m always hopeful at the beginning of the year,” he said in a Zoom interview with Awful Announcing. “New quarterback coming in. Everybody in Chicago thinks this is the year they’re going to at least make the playoffs. Now we’re in the middle of the season. Head coach is gone, team’s in disarray, and we’re trying to regroup. I don’t know. I’m not wasting any more time watching them. It’s …