The Tremendous Bowl held a second of silence Sunday in tribute to Chicago Bears proprietor Virginia Halas McCaskey, who died final week at age 102.
The soccer matriarch generally known as “Mama Bear” had owned the crew since her father, NFL co-founder George Halas, died in 1983.
McCaskey was identified for her ardour for soccer, although she left a lot of the hands-on administration to her husband, Ed McCaskey. She helmed the crew throughout its 1985 Tremendous Bowl win. Bent on maintaining the crew inside the household, McCaskey handed the reins to Michael, the oldest of her 11 kids, and 4 of her different sons are on the Bears’ board of administrators.
The “First Lady of the NFL,” as narrator Lauren Screeden referred to as her in a video tribute on Saturday, McCaskey mentioned she couldn’t have imagined it every other manner.
“I’ve been so blessed that this has been my life,” she mentioned. “I can’t think of any other way I would want to be living my life.”
The McCaskey tribute was one in all a number of held earlier than sport time, with honors additionally going to victims and first responders to the brutal New Yr’s terrorist assault on Bourbon Road in New Orleans, the place Tremendous Bowl LIX is being held.
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