The amount of transparency they had back in the day is unreal. These days everyone reads off of a script and everyone tip toes around every meaningful question. I long for these days.
Haha! Yes. Nobody I know seems to talk about it much, but he is the king of just stopping mid sentence and going to something else. I can do a pretty good impersonation, LOL
Yes it was real back then. Mike Ditka had a passion for the game and it showed on and off the field. Today it's all corporate mentality. Mike said it the way it was and that's what made him a great coach. If the Bears are ever to find the identity again they need to find a coach from the 85 team. Not to many younger people in this generation have any idea of what the monsters of the midway were all about. When you played against the bears back then you better have had plenty of ice packs on hand. Thanks for the memories Coach Ditka.
I’m a bit Ditka fan but it was time for him to go after 92. He was a good coach but not a great coach. He was a distant fourth to Walsh, Gibbs and Parcells
They bring in a GM which they have struck out on many times, and constantly hire defensive coordinators to coach, and never a big name coach either. Last big name coach we had was Wanstadt !!
Mckaskey's are clowns. Halas hired Mike and that is and will be the only Lombardi Trophy the Mckaskey's will ever have. The Bears won't win another championship until they sell the team.
@@danielstack4158 But at least in the 90s you could take a dump and no one gave a S***!!! Hahaha. 90s was the last full decade of the great Soldier Field. Now it's a joke. They should have never renovated it like they did. It was fine just the way it was, all they had to do was change the bathrooms, concourses, and get the Honey Bears back but nope.
@GIL Favor They built it like a spaceship landed inside the actual stadium. They also got rid of seats that reduced it's capacity. The design is just ugly. It's called "Mistake by the Lake" for a reason.
The bears are cheap they knever spend money to get quality coaches until the mckaskeys decide to hire a household name we will be on the bottom looking up
Mike McCaskey got demoted due to the bumbling of hiring Dave McGinnis. The bears made the announcement that they hired McGinnis when they never reached an agreement on the contract.
Bottom line, Ditka just got lazy, and the team suffered because of it. That may sound harsh, but it is true. To only win 1 Super Bowl with that assembly of players (six Hall of Famers), is completely and utterly unacceptable. Ditka was more interested in doing commercials , tv, radio and newspaper spots than keeping an eye and attention on his team. Very sad, because he could have been compared to the Parcels and Belichek's if he would have been more focused. Hell of a player in his day, but a coach, average at best. Wasted potential.
Yes and no. There were a lot of big egos on those Bear teams and yes, Da Coach arguably had the biggest ego of them all. IMO, it all started when George Halas hired Ditka over Buddy Ryan to be the head coach in '82. And naturally, Buddy was not happy about that. Even though Da Bears won it all in '85, there were big cracks in their foundation that season - the biggest when Marino and the Dolphins exposed Buddy's 46 Defense on MNF. Ditka wanted the nickel and Buddy literally told him to fuck off. Then when Buddy left to become the Eagles head coach after the season, it just wasn't the same intensity with the defensive players. But even more so was the Player's Strike in '87 - and when Ditka called his replacements the "Real Bears", that's when the true colors showed, not just with Ditka, but the regulars as well. And of course, Jim McMahon wasn't exactly in top shape - partying all the time after winning it all in '85........and he was ultimately shown the door after '88. Wilber Marshall found greener pastures, ended up winning another Super Bowl with the Redskins. Willie Gault ended up with the Raiders. Heart attack aside, Ditka's intensity was still there to the end, but the talent no longer was. Cheap ownership (in the McKaskeys) didn't help, either.
David Smith Blasphemy! (The both of yous). How dare you talk about Ditkith that way? Thank Ditkith for the life he’s allowed you to have. Give us this day our daily Ditkith, and forgive those who trethpath against us. If it weren’t for Ditkith, we wouldn’t have a super bowl at all. Thank you coach. Thank you. -The Grabowski Pride is alive and well because of you.
He did pretty good with the Saints oh wait lol. That Ricky Williams trade was epic. Hey the Bears won a Super bowl something Vikings haven't and the Lions where do you start with them.
@@MrTeatreeoil it was GM Jim Finks that built that legendary team but I do believe if Buddy Ryan was named head coach the Bears would have won more then one SB 🤷
DITKA was a great NFL coach-- he just had no control over his staff--who did whatever they wanted aka BUDDY RYAN, the dummy that messed up the Bear dynasty.
Just not true as a bears fan. look at the numbers the 86 defense was arguably better. McMahon got hit and hurt for the season on a late hit by Green Bay should have been a suspension. And we lost Bc we had a backup
He was a great coach.he made alot of bad descions also.86,87,88 couldnt get back and had homefield in 2 of those seasons.bad qb play and it fell on ditka and ahouldve been.
@@frankk.7761 A decision that was made after Charles Martin had his way with McMahon. If McMahon stays healthy in 86, or relatively healthy as we all know how injury prone he was, I think the Bears repeat and never need to go get Flutie.
@@SonicSlicer FALSE. Flutie was already on the team when Martin ended McMahon's season. It's people like you that just invent things like that that reveal just how silly some Bears fans are and will be forevermore.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 If McMahon stays healthy, does Flutie play ahead of Fuller or Tomczak? Inventing nothing, that came from the 30 for 30 on the 85 Bears.
Ditka was a horrible coach , horrible talent evaluator and worse human being . All the players knew it which is why nobody listened to him . He was just a big mouth jerk . Thank you Buddy Ryan for 85 .
The Bears made the playoffs 2 of his last 4 years as head coach (1990, 1991). How the hell was his last 4 years as bad as you say? And as a Bears fan I don't give a shit about what he did with the Saints.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 No argument there - except the 9 NFL championships since 1922 - which was right around the time when Halas purchased the rights to the bears for $100. You gotta figure he had some more money to spend on players like Grange eh? But even Grange was a disappointment at times - sitting on the sidelines for example - when they beat the Packers 21-0. But that still leaves a championship average of once a decade. Not quite as bad a record as the Cubs but nothing stellar.
Here in 2022 - and even back 1992, they were always talking about how cheap the McCaskey’s are. SMH something’s never change.
Maybe people should stop going to games and buying season tickets
But they aren't that cheap
The amount of transparency they had back in the day is unreal. These days everyone reads off of a script and everyone tip toes around every meaningful question. I long for these days.
Ditka kinda told the future, this team has never been the same since.
Nobody had more humility in the end than Iron Mike. Tough love ❤️
And here we are in 2024 and NOTHING HAS CHANGED! 😒
Jan 10, 2025: Nothing changed for the bears
The McCaskey's are the MAIN reason the Bears have struggled.
1985 Bears. Greatest defense in NFL history.
i grew up a Cornhusker, but was raised a Bears, Bulls and White Sox Fan. Thanks Dad.
Whoa Johnny Morris swingin' lumber at the McCaskeys at the end.
I'd love to see an accurate transcript of Ditka's press conference here. The cut-off sentences are legendary.
Haha! Yes. Nobody I know seems to talk about it much, but he is the king of just stopping mid sentence and going to something else. I can do a pretty good impersonation, LOL
its true the bears never paid out the money
Yes it was real back then. Mike Ditka had a passion for the game and it showed on and off the field. Today it's all corporate mentality. Mike said it the way it was and that's what made him a great coach. If the Bears are ever to find the identity again they need to find a coach from the 85 team. Not to many younger people in this generation have any idea of what the monsters of the midway were all about. When you played against the bears back then you better have had plenty of ice packs on hand. Thanks for the memories Coach Ditka.
Still miss him as our head coach.
Sad day in Bear history
NOT BECAUSE OF DITKA !!
@@TheSilvergold45 : Why?
They should have never fired him. He's a chicago icon, win or lose
I’m a bit Ditka fan but it was time for him to go after 92. He was a good coach but not a great coach. He was a distant fourth to Walsh, Gibbs and Parcells
When bears let Jerry Venezi walk to Detroit, Iron Mike knew just a matter of time
This is the man that built one of the greatest football team in history but George McCaskey jealousy got in the way….. Jim Finks
Wow... listen to Johnny Morris, and appreciate how the McCaskey family philosophy hasn't changed that much over the following three decades.
They bring in a GM which they have struck out on many times, and constantly hire defensive coordinators to coach, and never a big name coach either. Last big name coach we had was Wanstadt !!
Ditka got burned out and quit giving a fuck around 1988. Hell of a classy speech on the way out, though.
Iron Mike is the second best coach in the long history of the Chicago Bears.
McMahon didn't like the McCaskeys and neither did Iron Mike. So I dislike them too.
Mike got control, and he thru his entire draft away too. He was great for the Bears, a Legend ! But Buddy Ryan was every part of their success !!
Mckaskey's are clowns. Halas hired Mike and that is and will be the only Lombardi Trophy the Mckaskey's will ever have. The Bears won't win another championship until they sell the team.
Iron Mike. Legendary coach!
A Man's Man.
Bears stunk for a lot of years after that.
They really did, 90's was a lot of losing.
@@danielstack4158 But at least in the 90s you could take a dump and no one gave a S***!!! Hahaha. 90s was the last full decade of the great Soldier Field. Now it's a joke. They should have never renovated it like they did. It was fine just the way it was, all they had to do was change the bathrooms, concourses, and get the Honey Bears back but nope.
@GIL Favor They built it like a spaceship landed inside the actual stadium. They also got rid of seats that reduced it's capacity. The design is just ugly. It's called "Mistake by the Lake" for a reason.
@Gyp Rosetti They wont win anything unless the McCaskeys sell the team.
…still stinking
Back when press conferences were actually worth watching. Today, it’s all PC and being sensitive.
28 seasons since that 10 playoff seasons
Bet almost all of them had Urlacher.
@@burklanUrlacher I think only went 4 times. 01/05/06/10?
You’re sure it’s even 10?
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This made me cry
He deserved to get fired he sold his team out during player strike.
Dan Patrick, a young yes man
Eventually he went to the Saints. How did that work out?
In life he said for the last time.😢
The Curse of Jerry Vanisi continues to haunt the Bears.
And Jim Finks ya he made the mistake of not taking Montana 😡 but he did build a hell of a team, all this was jealousy of Mike McCaskey
@@blizzdog3881you are both 100% CORRECT!!!
The bears are cheap they knever spend money to get quality coaches until the mckaskeys decide to hire a household name we will be on the bottom looking up
The mccasky line still rings true today
Mike McCaskey got demoted due to the bumbling of hiring Dave McGinnis. The bears made the announcement that they hired McGinnis when they never reached an agreement on the contract.
A dark day in Chicago Sports History.
And how did the 90s work out for da bears???
They should of kept ditka
1. Halas
2. Ditka
3. Sweetness
Bottom line, Ditka just got lazy, and the team suffered because of it. That may sound harsh, but it is true. To only win 1 Super Bowl with that assembly of players (six Hall of Famers), is completely and utterly unacceptable. Ditka was more interested in doing commercials , tv, radio and newspaper spots than keeping an eye and attention on his team. Very sad, because he could have been compared to the Parcels and Belichek's if he would have been more focused. Hell of a player in his day, but a coach, average at best. Wasted potential.
C A Ditka is God, cuh.
Yes and no.
There were a lot of big egos on those Bear teams and yes, Da Coach arguably had the biggest ego of them all. IMO, it all started when George Halas hired Ditka over Buddy Ryan to be the head coach in '82. And naturally, Buddy was not happy about that.
Even though Da Bears won it all in '85, there were big cracks in their foundation that season - the biggest when Marino and the Dolphins exposed Buddy's 46 Defense on MNF. Ditka wanted the nickel and Buddy literally told him to fuck off. Then when Buddy left to become the Eagles head coach after the season, it just wasn't the same intensity with the defensive players.
But even more so was the Player's Strike in '87 - and when Ditka called his replacements the "Real Bears", that's when the true colors showed, not just with Ditka, but the regulars as well. And of course, Jim McMahon wasn't exactly in top shape - partying all the time after winning it all in '85........and he was ultimately shown the door after '88. Wilber Marshall found greener pastures, ended up winning another Super Bowl with the Redskins. Willie Gault ended up with the Raiders.
Heart attack aside, Ditka's intensity was still there to the end, but the talent no longer was. Cheap ownership (in the McKaskeys) didn't help, either.
David Smith Blasphemy! (The both of yous). How dare you talk about Ditkith that way? Thank Ditkith for the life he’s allowed you to have. Give us this day our daily Ditkith, and forgive those who trethpath against us.
If it weren’t for Ditkith, we wouldn’t have a super bowl at all.
Thank you coach. Thank you.
-The Grabowski Pride is alive and well because of you.
@@prepro595 Just had my 40th heart attack after you said that. I'm okay though
David Smith you’re my Ditka, my Ditka, my Ditka, my Ditka
Can you imagine a Steelers sideline with Ditka and Cowher as asst coaches?
👎👎👎
I don't think Ditka would be able to coach today's players.
back in the '70s, there was a Cowboys sideline with Ditka and Dan Reeves as assistant coaches. INTENSE! AMAZING!
That's why spamton said mike was criminal....
He did pretty good with the Saints oh wait lol. That Ricky Williams trade was epic. Hey the Bears won a Super bowl something Vikings haven't and the Lions where do you start with them.
If it wasn't for buddy mike wouldn't never have won super bowl XX
Buddy didn’t do anything as a head coach
@@MrTeatreeoil it was GM Jim Finks that built that legendary team but I do believe if Buddy Ryan was named head coach the Bears would have won more then one SB 🤷
Never should have fired him. He should still be there today.
0:23 is the face of a man similar to when his wife of 10 years, who he loves dearly, telling him that she's filed for divorce.
What a horrible organization
Love Johnny Morris.
The end of an amazing run.
That right there is a MAN!
DITKA was a great NFL coach-- he just had no control over his staff--who did whatever they wanted aka BUDDY RYAN, the dummy that messed up the Bear dynasty.
Huh? Buddy Ryan ran the defense when they won the Super Bowl! Then he went and became a head coach . . . how did _he_ mess up the Bear dynasty?
2:31
“Mike’s ride there. Gotta go.”
He even looks like a bear.
Bears have the worst ownership in sports.
Sad day indeed. But things do pass...like making the playoffs....
@GIL Favor Yep. Saints won 8 Super Bowls under Ditka, most ever in NFL history *sarcasm*
@GIL Favor Ditka never should've gone back to coach. The game passed him by while he was away.
It was a happy day for me 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@musicman76enator you mean they went to the playoffs 8 times
He was the only Chicago bears coach that was successful.
Papa Bear was a pretty good Coach, but i get what you're saying.
False
Lmfao , he rode the coattails of Buddy Ryan .
@@SECRETARIATguy224 named another Bears Coach who won a superbowl
@@DarKKnightt07 The point of your comment is what, exactly? With the talent that team had, they should've done much better.
2024-and the McCaskeys are still ruining this once proud franchise.
SELL THE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel sorry for that 1 very lonely Super Bowl trophy
What you didn't like Ditka?
I still believe to this day if Buddy was made HC we would have had more then one ring
How many did he win in Philly?
@@thedisheveledplayboys Buddy did not have a team pack with HOFers like Ditka he had a few but nothing like the Bears had.
Just not true as a bears fan. look at the numbers the 86 defense was arguably better. McMahon got hit and hurt for the season on a late hit by Green Bay should have been a suspension. And we lost Bc we had a backup
@@blizzdog3881 Buddy had Reggie White Clyde Simmons Jerome Brown Keith Jackson Randall Cunningham, come on bro
@@twostop6895 so your trying to convince me the eagles team was just as good as the Bears 😂
:29 Frank Sinatra reference
My Way
Now we are almost the worst in the league!!!!
It's like Bill belichick n new England
Mike Ditka is Winner!!
Since 4-6 in the playoffs
Make that 4-7
@@fsanmiguel666 WHAT DO U EXPECT WITH THE SHIT PLAYERS McCASKEY GAVE DITKA LOL
THE COMMENTERS DONT KNOW
Is the same Mike!?
The McCaskeys don’t know shit about football.
Ditka 670 media 0
Da Bears!
Bad news bears
My New York "Football" Giants 🏈🇺🇸🙏✝️❤️🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ended Ditka and Bears in 1991 Playoffs 31 - 3 .... total dominance
He was a great coach.he made alot of bad descions also.86,87,88 couldnt get back and had homefield in 2 of those seasons.bad qb play and it fell on ditka and ahouldve been.
Bringing in Doug Flutie at the end of the 86 season and starting him against the Redskins was a horrible decision.
@@frankk.7761 A decision that was made after Charles Martin had his way with McMahon. If McMahon stays healthy in 86, or relatively healthy as we all know how injury prone he was, I think the Bears repeat and never need to go get Flutie.
@@SonicSlicer FALSE. Flutie was already on the team when Martin ended McMahon's season. It's people like you that just invent things like that that reveal just how silly some Bears fans are and will be forevermore.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 If McMahon stays healthy, does Flutie play ahead of Fuller or Tomczak?
Inventing nothing, that came from the 30 for 30 on the 85 Bears.
@@SonicSlicer Doug Flutie was _brought in_ WAY before the Charles Martin situation. They didn't bring Flutie in as a result of that injury.
Ditka was a drama queen in front of the camera.
Da Bears are run like a mom and pop shop, they can’t compete in the NFL like that
Take notes on Philly and spend some money you cheap franchise the bears are a sorry ass team period
Ditka was a horrible coach , horrible talent evaluator and worse human being .
All the players knew it which is why nobody listened to him .
He was just a big mouth jerk .
Thank you Buddy Ryan for 85 .
Your out of your mind.
Joke as a head coach.. was really bad his last 4 w Chicago...had an all time horrible run w Saints many years later...
The Bears made the playoffs 2 of his last 4 years as head coach (1990, 1991). How the hell was his last 4 years as bad as you say? And as a Bears fan I don't give a shit about what he did with the Saints.
@@PrinceTron1 my bad..he went 6 and 10 in 89 and then 5 and 11 in 92.
Was then 15 and 33 w the saints..a total joke there
He ranks second to Halas for winning percentage as a bear head coach. How does that figure?
@@jeffmilroy9345 It demonstrates the almost _total lack of quality_ they've had throughout most of their history.
@@SECRETARIATguy224 No argument there - except the 9 NFL championships since 1922 - which was right around the time when Halas purchased the rights to the bears for $100. You gotta figure he had some more money to spend on players like Grange eh? But even Grange was a disappointment at times - sitting on the sidelines for example - when they beat the Packers 21-0. But that still leaves a championship average of once a decade. Not quite as bad a record as the Cubs but nothing stellar.
Ditka gets fired 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
MOST OVERRATED COACH EVER
😂😂😂😂
Maybe - but you gotta prove it. Could you beat his team back in 85?
Bum