The Difference… | Ringside Report

By Mark Koruba
My family has had Chicago Bears season tickets since the team was playing football in the ill-fitting(one of the end-zones was too small by quite a bit) Wrigley Field. We have also been frustrated by the team’s play, ownership, management, scouting, drafting, coaching and general ineptitude for the majority of those fifty plus years. All of the aforementioned issues are on grand display this season.
Let us start with ownership. Virginia McCaskey knows less about football than my dog. The NFL tries to portray her as the Grand Dame of the league when she has always been a figurehead, nothing more. She initially passed responsibility for operating the team to her son Michael McCaskey after her father, George Halas, passed away. Mike waited three years to do anything of import, the Bears won a title in 85, he gutted management and scouting and named himself GM, kind of. The Bears had no GM for fifteen seasons, but Lil’ Mikey never took the blame for anything, he passed that along to his underlings. One of those underlings is team president Ted Phillips, a man that could ruin a wet dream. Phillips still holds his position even after Mikey was kicked upstairs to serve as chairman after several highly publicized screwups. The Bears remained without a true GM for another three seasons.

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