Video: Mike Ditka Has Two Words For Ya!

By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 10, 2013 2:30PM

A funny thing happened during Mike Ditka Night at Soldier Field Monday night—a football game broke out. (Benjy Lipsman will have his recap of the Bears' 45-28 win later this morning.)

But the highlight of the night for many Bears fans was the team's long-overdue retirement of Ditka's number 89 (which team chairman George McCaskey, sounding very much like Super Dave Osborne, said would be the final jersey number retired by the Bears) and retiring Ditka's Bears sweater.

Da Coach, standing next to the Super Bowl XX trophy, the trophy for the 1963 NFL champion Bears commissioned by Mayor Richard J. Daley and Ditka's Football Hall of Fame bust, gave a performance for the ages guaranteed to sell sausages and wine and have his cult of personality booking reservations to his restaurant.

We've said our share about Ditka but the man certainly earned this moment after being estranged from the team for over 20 years since he was fired in 1992. Ditka obviously relished the moment.

“It’s such a great honor,” Ditka said. “I’m really honored that the Bears have considered doing this. It’s kind of the icing on the cake, the final candle, whatever you want to call it. It’s been a hell of a run, it really has been.”

[Video and GIF via SB Nation.]