‘Don’t Act Like A Clown’: Mike Ditka Rips
Kneeling Players, Says They Would Have
Been Benched On His Teams
Daily Caller,
by
Scott Morefield
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/2/2020 12:29:52 PM
Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka said he would have benched players who refused to stand during the national anthem while he was coach.As professional sports players across the country continue to kneel during the national anthem in support of Black Lives Matter and ongoing protests, Ditka drew fire for telling TMZ in a recent interview that players should “get the hell out of the country” if they “can’t respect our national anthem.”“Oh, they wouldn’t have played for us,” Ditka told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Saturday night’s “Watters’ World” when asked what he would have done if one of his Bears players had refused to stand
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/2/2020 12:44:27 PM (No. 497667)
I BENCHED THEM 2 YEARS AGO.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/2/2020 12:47:20 PM (No. 497676)
Good man. Brave man.
As he said, “You can’t play American football in Peru. You can’t play in England. American football can only be played in America. And you make a lot of money doing it. Enjoy it, respect it, but don’t act like a clown.”
I would love to see Ditka and that ass-clown Kaepernick go mano a mano with words!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/2/2020 1:17:21 PM (No. 497710)
What I wrote last week bears (no pun intended) repeating: I graduated Aliquippa High School one year ahead of Mike and I was in the band and usually in the front of the formation and I can still see that young football player standing in his uniform with his hand over his heart as we played the National Anthem to start each game. His face showed pure reverence. Mike Ditka is a patriot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/2/2020 1:20:56 PM (No. 497713)
They knelt. I walked. I'm not coming back. MLB is next.
Ditka is a Real Man, a trait sorely lacking in 2020 American professional sports.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/2/2020 1:32:53 PM (No. 497728)
And he would be just the right guy to drop their contracts on the floor and pee on them thoroughly to end their employment.
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My favorite commercial of all time was two guys walking down the street toward each other.
One guy looks at the one approaching him and says...”Ditka”!
The other guy recognizes him and says..
“Butkus”!
Those two guys were my heroes.
And so were the ‘85 Bears who won the 1986 Super Bowl over NewEngland 46-10.
Danimal Hampton..Mungo McMichael
Jim McMahon Walter Payton Gary Fencik
Those were the days...35 years ago
Now? The NFL sucks and I despise most Marxist America-hating hypocrite millionaire bastids!!! Never watch them again.
You asshats ruined sports in America!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/2/2020 1:47:37 PM (No. 497750)
I was there in person, #6. Great 72-hour party on Bourbon Street.
I remember some of it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HerbVA 8/2/2020 2:07:50 PM (No. 497768)
I was a diehard Packers fan from 1962 to 2020 and hated the Bears even though I was born and raised in Chicago. But I have always loved the Coach. A real alpha male and patriot.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/2/2020 2:11:26 PM (No. 497771)
FTA: "We played football. It wasn’t about the color of a guy’s skin, it about the way he played the game and what his contributions would be to society and to the school. I mean, I don’t get." The kneeling and the BLM protests are a Marxist insurgency that's using race as a cover. Good for Coach Ditka to speak out, but he'd be fired right now were he still an NFL employee because all of these big organizations back the insurgency in full.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/2/2020 2:16:03 PM (No. 497772)
Ditka/Jordan - 2024
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 8/2/2020 2:44:30 PM (No. 497790)
Mike Ditka, an American Patriot. God bless you Mike.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 8/2/2020 3:09:48 PM (No. 497807)
R’s in Illinois tried to draft Ditka to run against obama for the Senate. Ditka declined. I think of how much pain he could have saved us from and have never looked at him the same. And I’m a Bears fan.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 8/2/2020 4:11:07 PM (No. 497853)
It was a different world when you coached, Big Mike. Sadly, in TodayWorld, the team owner would order you to comply or fire you. Today's NFL is not your father's Oldsmobile.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/2/2020 4:19:29 PM (No. 497856)
NFL playbacks from the 70’s will soon be a hot ticket item. That was real football.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/2/2020 4:36:19 PM (No. 497862)
"Ditka drew fire"....heh,heh. Somehow I don't think Mike Ditka could give a rat's patootie about what someone else thinks about him. I also doubt his critics would say anything to his face.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/2/2020 6:57:26 PM (No. 497972)
What would Walter Payton do? I suspect he would stand at attention with his hand over his heart. He and Mike Ditka were two of the greatest Bears to ever wear the uniform, imo. I watched many a Sunday before Mike Ditka became head coach that 'Sweetness' was sacrificed play after play to paralysis inducing hits from the defense and never ONCE did he run out of bounds before a hit even when his team was behind by 30 points. He went right at 'em. Before Payton died he heard Jim Brown tell the cameras that there was only one running back he admired at that time because he reminded him how he used to play, and that man was Walter Payton. Sorry for the rant, but I'm sure Coach Ditka is missing players of that ilk.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 8/2/2020 7:04:55 PM (No. 497981)
And then there’s the NBA and their ties to communist China. They turn their head toward money and away from gross human rights abuses there and in Hong Kong. My life is better without any of them. Since Covid I’ve learned other more enjoyable pleasures I had put aside watching the unwatchable.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 8/3/2020 1:53:37 AM (No. 498139)
RE #'s 6 & 7:
I have that game and the three hour Chicago broadcast of the victory parade on video tape somewhere in my storage unit. I even have a videotape of "The Superbowl Shuffle!"
You're right - that WAS when football was great!! Nowadays, it's all about overpaying and underperforming, and whether it hurts the team is irrelevant.
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