I recently looked up the word “tough” in the dictionary. It just showed a picture of Dick Butkus.
Speaking of Butkus, did it take an announcement on his passing for the Bears defense to remember the expression “Monsters of the Midway” and actually try to win a game? And they actually did. — E.L. Foertsch, Chicago I grew up on the Southwest Side of Chicago and remember Dick Butkus very well, from being a star at Chicago Vocational High School, as well as at the University of Illinois and with the Bears.
Many of Butkus’ obituaries note that, despite his unparalleled greatness, he never played in a championship or postseason game. What is lost in that commentary is that Butkus in his first season was a key member of one of Chicago’s greatest, if largely unheralded, teams, the 1965 Chicago Bears. The ’65 Bears were only two years removed from the ’63 championship team, but followed a ’64 team that finished with a highly disappointing 5-9 record, lowlighted by a 52-0 loss to the Baltimore Colts.
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