Chicago has some untouchable owners, where emotional fans often see to blame someone when things go wrong, often begin to top.
But Virginia McCasky, the lead owner of the Chicago Bear, who died on Thursday at the age of 102, was an exception to the rule.
Michael and George McCaki, two officers in charge of running a bear during their mother’s long reign, were always subject to general criticisms and jokes that used to run with jobs. When you are deciding for a franchise, which has got more success, you have to expect some shock. Even George Halas, the old “Papa Bear” was forced to save himself and the organization from time to time, especially in his life.
But Virginia was almost always exempted, it does not matter how bad things are. A part of her immunity was for her age, and confidently some fans could not just be bad for a good, elderly woman, which was just for her favorite NFL team.
But Virginia Halas McCaki was always honored and praised in Chicago and in NFL Circle. The bear fans and knowledgeable football fans on Thursday mourned the person who was the last link to the person who started the league.
Many former beer players expressed their condolences on social media, and many fans reported that Virginia’s last beer game as the owner was fantastic. One last-second win over Green Bay Packers in Lambo Field in the final of the season.
What could be better than that?
Some called her “NFL royalty,” and “the first woman of NFL”. Others said that his death began in 1920 ended when George Halas helped find NFL. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodll said in a statement, McCaki left the “class, dignity and heritage of humanity” to the world.
“Faith, family and football – in that order – her northern stars and she always lived to do the right thing through a simple saying,” said Goodll. “The bear that his father started, meant that the world is for him and he would be proud to continue family business with dedication and passion in this way.”
As most bears’ fans know well, it was never under the plan of the prestigious NFL franchise for Virginia. When she was born on 5 January 1923, George Halas was expecting a boy.
“I already had a vision to pull my son into a bear’s thick,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Halas by Halas”.
Two years later, George and Min Halas again became parents, and their newborn son, George Halas Junior, was brought to his father’s footsteps. The surname “Mug,” George Jr. became the beer treasurer in 1950, the general manager in 1960 and then the President in 63, while Virginia and her husband, Ed McCasky extended their family of 11 children in the des plane.
All this changed when Mag died on the morning of December 1979, before the bear defeated St. Louis Cardinals. Virginia will inherit the franchise’s lead role as a leading owner when George Halas died in 1983 and was in the 1985 his only Super Bowl-Vajeta season in the hull.
He retained the title of board secretary after his father’s death and nominated his oldest son, Michael as the team president. While she was mostly out of the headlines, Virginia was externally pleasing to a team, which was not only dominating the field in ’85, but players and teams changed the way they marketing themselves. And his uneven love of coach Mike Ditka, which he never had a question in the capacity of personality and coaching, was never in question.
“When Dad died, I know how he felt about Beers,” he told the Tribune’s Bob Verdie after winning the NFC title game on Los Angeles Ram. “He felt especially good about Mike Ditka coming back to the organization. I am not a football specialist. I do not pretend to become a prophet. My main feeling is one of the appreciation for Mike Ditka, how he has developed with this job, and all the good things he has arrived here. ,
The Beer will proceed to win the Super Bowl XX at the Beer New Orleans, and it seemed that Virginia McCaki’s rule could also be at the top of her father. Of course, it was not to happen. For the reasons that have been debated for the last four decades, Beers have never won a super bowl and have never developed or acquired an elite quarterback to lead them.
George McCaki revealed Virginia’s personal feelings about losing in 2014 after firing general manager Phil Emri and Coach Mark Tostman.
“He is very helpful,” said George. “He agrees with the decisions we have done. He is angry. I cannot think of a 91 -year -old woman that this details would apply, but in this case, I cannot think of more accurate details. She is for eight of the nine beer championships on this earth, and she wants more. He feels that it is much longer than the previous one, and that dissatisfaction is shared by his children, his grandson and his great grandchildren. She is fed up with mediation. She feels that she and everywhere tolerate fans. ,
Boom. Virginia’s private ranting quickly became part of the team’s learning.
Fans of beer may be related, and Virginia’s comments, whether or not or not, went viral. Even in 91, she understood the pain and heartache that had gone with the routing for the team she had. Among all the comments she did for years, it probably remember only one most bear fans. Virginia was actually one of them.
Honor and praise for Virginia McCaki could not feel some fans towards the team and family failure to make a winner. And before the mourning decreases and the tribute ends, everyone’s eyes turn to succession plan and big question:
“Now who will have Beers?”
This is a question that has been asked as long as Virginia is in charge.
“Can I ever see the bear leaving the family?” He said in 1985. ‘No, we have to work in our own way, but no, I could not see it. ,
She was troubled by the mantras of “selling the team” at the home finale of Bears on 26 December. But we know how George, the current leader, feel about the leadership of the family, and this suspicious change is coming soon.
For now, the loss of the mother -in -law of The Beer family will be felt by family, friends and many who knew Virginia McCasky only as the owner of his favorite team.
The bear fans are expected to celebrate a long and eventful life, which she lived and toasted a fellow Chicago, who always acted in her own way.