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Walter Payton leaves the field with Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon after a season-opening win over Tampa Bay at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois on Sept. 8, 1985.
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MESA, Ariz. — Minnesota football coach P.J. Fleck grew up in Sugar Grove, Ill., as a Chicago Bears fan. His favorite player was quarterback Jim McMahon, so much so that Fleck dressed up as McMahon on Halloween for several years. In a move orchestrated by Rate Bowl officials on Dec. 24, McMahon popped in quickly at the Gophers' practice at Mesa Community College. McMahon delivered an ...
Walter Payton leaves the field with Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon after a season-opening win over Tampa Bay at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois on Sept. 8, 1985.
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The Chicago Bears' Steve McMichael pressures Minnesota Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer in a 1985 file photo.
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Chicago Bears great Steve McMichael in 2005 with his dog, Chula.
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Steve McMichael at Chicago Bears training camp in Lake Forest, Illinois, on Aug. 28, 1990.
CHICAGO — Steve McMichael had been rolled onto his right side Friday, rotated to face the open window of his bedroom where he was greeted by a beautiful sunshine-and-blue-sky morning, a pleasant winter breeze and a flock of excited friends in his backyard. Nineteen officers, united in the Chicago Police Department’s Emerald Society, had arrived to pay tribute to the former Bears defensive ...
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Introduced as Bears coach: Jan. 20, 1982 Years coaching the Bears: 1982-1992 Record: 106-62 (.631) What team management said: “I like his ability to handle himself and handle other people. And I know he’ll do a good job getting people to play according to his desires.” — George Halas What the coach said: “I believe that everyone has a destiny in life, and mine is with the Chicago Bears.
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Chicago-area man who helped inspire Special Olympics dies
FILE - In this May 11, 1988, file photo, Michael Cusack carries the torch around the track at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field during the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Chicago. Cusack, a Chicago-area man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died. He was 64. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, that Cusack, who had Down syndrome, died at Good Shepherd Manor in Momence on Dec.
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