Virginia McCaskey, the longtime principal proprietor of the Chicago Bears, has died. She was 102.
McCaskey managed Chicago’s NFL franchise since 1983, when she inherited possession following the demise of her father and group founder George Halas. George was additionally the primary particular person to function the Bears coach.
The McCaskey household supplied a press release through the Bears, saying McCaskey lived a “full” life.
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Chicago Bears proprietor Virginia McCaskey on the 2011 NFL Worldwide Collection fan rally at Trafalgar Sq.. (Kirby Lee/Picture of Sport-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“Whereas we’re unhappy, we’re comforted understanding Virginia Halas McCaskey lived an extended, full, faith-filled life and is now with the love of her life on earth,” the assertion learn.
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“She guided the Bears for 4 a long time and based mostly each enterprise choice on what was finest for Bears gamers, coaches, employees and followers.”
The Bears received the franchise’s lone Tremendous Bowl with McCaskey on the helm. Chicago defeated the New England Patriots in Tremendous Bowl 20, thanks largely to the “Monsters of the Halfway” — a nickname referencing the Bears’ acclaimed 1985 protection.
Chicago Bears proprietor Virginia McCaskey throughout the annual NFL conferences on the Arizona Biltmore. (Casey Sapio-USA TODAY Sports activities)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell launched a press release shortly after the passing of McCaskey was introduced.
“Virginia Halas McCaskey, the matriarch of the Chicago Bears and daughter of George Halas, the founding father of the NFL, leaves a legacy of sophistication, dignity, and humanity,” Goodell stated. “Religion, household, and soccer – in that order – have been her north stars and he or she lived by the straightforward adage to at all times ‘do the proper factor.’ The Bears that her father began meant the world to her and he could be pleased with the best way she continued the household enterprise with such dedication and keenness. Our ideas and prayers exit to the McCaskey and Halas households and Bears followers around the globe.”
Virginia’s son, George McCaskey, presently serves because the Bears chairman — a place his brother Michael McCaskey held till 2011.
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She was born Virginia Marion Halas in 1923 in Chicago. She went on to review enterprise administration at Drexel College in Philadelphia. She married Ed McCaskey in 1943. In 1986, Ed mirrored on the similarities Virginia shared together with her father.
“She has her father’s chin, her father’s dedication,” he informed the Chicago Tribune in 1986.
The couple ultimately had 11 youngsters collectively. Ed handed away in 2008. Virginia was the longest tenured proprietor in any of the U.S. main sports activities leagues.
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