Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears Hall of Famer and Super Bowl-winning coach, dies at 86
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Nobody embodied Chicago Bears football more than Mike Ditka, who became the face of the franchise as both a Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end and a Super Bowl-winning coach.
It was a face that even resembled the bear on the team logo, a face once described as “a clenched fist” that became familiar to millions — first as a player starting in 1961, then as Bears coach from 1982-92 and finally as a ubiquitous celebrity promoter and television commentator.
Ditka, who coached the 1985 Bears to the
It was a face that even resembled the bear on the team logo, a face once described as “a clenched fist” that became familiar to millions — first as a player starting in 1961, then as Bears coach from 1982-92 and finally as a ubiquitous celebrity promoter and television commentator.
Ditka, who coached the 1985 Bears to the
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