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Stacey Dales is beginning her 17th year covering the NFL, but she’s about to do something she — or any woman, for that matter — hasn’t done before.
Dales will be the first woman to join the Bears’ preseason TV booth Sunday, when the Dolphins visit Soldier Field (noon, Fox 32, 1000-AM). It will also be her first game broadcast from the booth after years of working the sidelines.
The Bears recently contacted Dales, a senior national reporter at NFL Network, to ask if she was interested in working with them.
“I said, ‘In what capacity?