Taking a Look in the Bears History Book: Dick Butkus
by Ashley Czuba on Jan 15, 2010 12:10 PM CST
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It is now the off-season for the Bears. Our beloved team is resting, and beginning to get ready for next season. What can you do in the off-season? Here are a few ideas:
1) Knit a Ditka sweater vest (they’re very expensive online!)
2) Make up a Chicago Bears dance (and film yourself doing it… and share it with us here on the website… I’d even feature some on my next post!)
3) Create your own version of this.
4) Make a parod y of a song to go with the Bears, like this (Same deal, I'll share on my next post!)
5) Start a new Brett Favre watch!
WHERE IS DICK BUTKUS NOW?
Dick Butkus played middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears from 1965-1973. After retiring from playing the sport, Butkus came back in 1985 as a color analyst for radio broadcasts for his former team. In 1979, he was elected to the pro football hall of fame. Also, in 2000, he was named to the NFL’s all-time team. Finally, Butkus was deemed the most feared linebacker in the NFL, despite his knee injuries.
In 2000, Dick Butkus was said to have become the coach of the XFL’s Chicago Enforcers, however, later he was announced as the XFL Director of Competition for the league’s one-year of existence. (What exactly he did in this position – I’m not sure. I was only able to find information about him speaking for the league…)
On a non-football related note, Butkus went on to a career in acting. For you fellow Bears fans, he played himself In Brian’s Song. He also made appearances in movies such as Necessary Roughness, Any Given Sunday, and Gus. He also appeared on a few TV shows: Coach and MacGyver, to name two. I also read that he was in an episode of Murder She Wrote wearing only a towel... He also sold the "Qwik Cook Grill" in an infomercial. (Bonus Points: If you can find any footage of this informercial, I’ll give you a special shoutout in my next post!)
Most recently, in 2008, Butkus made a nationwide campaign called "I Play Clean" to help keep anabolic steroids out of high school atheletics. Also, he also starred in a FedEx commercial in 2009 (I’m sure many of you have seen the "I’m sorry, Dick Butkus commercial).
In conclusion, after a successful career with our beloved Chicago Bears, Dick Butkus became a successful endorser, broadcaster, philanthropist, and actor.
TID-BIT FOR THE DAY:
There is a new speeding law in Illinois. For your first offense, you get Bears tickets. For the second offense, you have to use them. ;)
Is there anything else you’d like to see in future posts, or anything you’d like a female’s perspective on? Have an idea for the perfect player for "Where Are They Now?" Questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns? Please let me know! Just send me an email or comment below!
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quick!!! was watching sports center and had to go
back to work, they were gonna talk about who might be new UT HC.
If you live in Chicago you are a bears fan, if you move from chicago you stay a bears fan, if you move to chicago you will be a bears fan.
Not Smith.....
louisiana tech HC is the new ten HC….NOT Lovie Smith….
"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul...."
- Jay Cutler to Ron Turner during the season
by CloudyFuture on Jan 15, 2010 12:38 PM CST up reply actions
That's where I went to college...
The Dooley hire will be interesting.
Y'know what we got here? Mother**ckin' Charlie Bronson. Mr. Majestyk.
LA Tech or UT?
UT alumnus myself.
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson
"More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
by Pete Dixon on Jan 16, 2010 4:19 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Up top...
…For Josh Scobee! Whoo hoo!
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson
"More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
by Pete Dixon on Jan 17, 2010 6:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Butkus!!!
I bought a quik cook grill!
by Lester A. Wiltfong Jr. on Jan 15, 2010 12:24 PM CST reply actions
i saw a Qwik Cook Grill at a yard sale
An old lady beat me too it or I would have snagged it.
"I am not an animal!" - Merrick
I find a swift elbow to the throat does the trick :-D
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
"F*** everybody outside of Halas Hall. BEARDOWN" - WavyGravy
yep
That’s exactly how she took me down, and followed up with a swift kick to the ‘nads.
I never had a chance, nor will I father any more children, and am now a soprano.
She’s just the kind of mentality the Bears need on the O line!
Go Bears!
"I am not an animal!" - Merrick
by Maelvampyre on Jan 16, 2010 4:33 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
sooo THATS
where my grandma found my christmas present.
:-P
/joking
//wish i werent, i miss having grandparents.
There is no infinity button for failing in sports. At some point, things turn. They always do. - Bill Simmons
waah waaaaaaaah
If you want to crown em...
by JohnnyTruant on Jan 16, 2010 10:13 PM CST up reply actions
hey
i wasn’t trying to be debbie downer… was trying to be funny.
There is no infinity button for failing in sports. At some point, things turn. They always do. - Bill Simmons
It was. The Debbie Downer was uncalled for.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
"F*** everybody outside of Halas Hall. BEARDOWN" - WavyGravy
"I don’t care if Belichick wins twenty Super Bowls. He’s an asshole." - Da Coach
I watched a youtube video recently
about Butkus… one of the guys they were interviewing said “When Butkus hit you, you stayed hit.” What a player…
Y'know what we got here? Mother**ckin' Charlie Bronson. Mr. Majestyk.
Didnt Butkus have a show on espn?
Where he coached a highschool team or something? for some reason thats rings a bell
by Bear Lovin 21 on Jan 16, 2010 11:32 PM CST up reply actions
What do I do during this offseason
Play madden 10 and fire the coaching staff….then hire them again so I can fire them again….brings me great joy….
"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul...."
- Jay Cutler to Ron Turner during the season
LMAO
this made me crack up out loud and my dad came in the room and said “what ru laughing at” and i showe dhim your pot and he started laughing too. yo get 10 points
"If you call them, they will come." - Jerry Angle/Lovie Smith after vacating the OC spot
by suckmyditka on Jan 15, 2010 12:59 PM CST up reply actions
Amusing, but I hope his next words were “Son, you need to improve your literacy.”
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
"F*** everybody outside of Halas Hall. BEARDOWN" - WavyGravy
"I don’t care if Belichick wins twenty Super Bowls. He’s an asshole." - Da Coach
Dude...
There’s a difference between literacy and typos.
"If you call them, they will come." - Jerry Angle/Lovie Smith after vacating the OC spot
lool
even madden knows they suck. two of them had negative ratings in the game. better off w/no staff in the game
by reefermadness3 on Jan 17, 2010 7:03 AM CST up reply actions
Qwik Cook Grill
Wowy, wow-wow.
"But it doesn't matter what I do, what I choose. I'm what's wrong. This is fate" - Dexter season 4....I mean Lovie season 6.
Nice post.
I would love to find a Ditka sweater w/o knitting one or paying lots of money for them. Although they have ones on 80stees.com but they are kind of pricey even there.
by Sam Householder on Jan 15, 2010 1:32 PM CST reply actions
Yup...
Every now and then, you’ll see one pop up on ebay, but people usually want an arm and a leg for them.
Y'know what we got here? Mother**ckin' Charlie Bronson. Mr. Majestyk.
Wasn't Butkus
also on “My Two Dads”? I seem to recall this, but I haven’t seen that show in like forever.
I think he was also on a TNBC show?
I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule. -Randal Graves
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Dick Butkus Television and Movie links...
Just a reference for the incredibly bored:
On the other hand, every time I watch this i get a boner:
“He was an animal, and he was a well conditioned animal, and every time he hit you he wanted to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital”.
“He was Moby Dick in a goldfish bowl.”
“To talk about him is to drain the vocabulary of superlatives”.
“It was kind of an odor….”
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson
"More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
Dammit
Here’s the links…
movies and tv: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124792/
nfl films: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhNVqs07FRc
"More cowbell" - Bruce Dickinson
"More bell cow" - Lovie Smith
Was gonna point that out myself.
Glad I scrolled down first. I think he played a bartender or bar owner. Something along those lines.
"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST
Ha!
I was gonna do the exact same. How’s my brother from another mother?
I lied and told her I loved her,
She didn’t care, but anyway
I told her we’d still be friends,
And she didn’t care, but anyway
I tried last week for to call her,
She wasn’t home, but anyway
I think I’ll spend my life alone,
I really don’t care right now, but anyway
Good post!
Love the where are they now type stuff. And the lyrics for that video are awesome.
Pro Bowl Guy, gotta get-get
Great Q B, gotta get-get
Rock et Arm, gotta get-get
Jay Cut ler, gotta get-get
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"Newbie, if the next two words out of your mouth aren't 'See ya' then the third word will be 'Oh my god. My crotch. You've punched me in my crotch." - Dr. Percival Ulysses Cox
I enjoyed the post very much!
Fun/nice change of pace from the norm.
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