NFL: Bears QB Justin Fields on Passing of Dick Butkus - 'This One's for Him Tonight'
October 07, 2023
October 07, 2023
CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 7 -- The National Football League issued the following news on Oct. 6, 2023:
A model of might and dominance across nine Chicago autumns, Dick Butkus embodied fearsome and brutish play as a true Monster of the Midway.
Perhaps the greatest middle linebacker of them all and a Bears legend for the ages, Butkus died on Thursday -- which was also game day for a previously winless Chicago squad.
An announcement of the 80-year-old's death from th . . .
A model of might and dominance across nine Chicago autumns, Dick Butkus embodied fearsome and brutish play as a true Monster of the Midway.
Perhaps the greatest middle linebacker of them all and a Bears legend for the ages, Butkus died on Thursday -- which was also game day for a previously winless Chicago squad.
An announcement of the 80-year-old's death from th . . .