Super Bowl pays tribute to late Chicago Bears owner Virginia McCaskey

The Super Bowl held a infinitesimal of soundlessness Sunday successful tribute to Chicago Bears proprietor Virginia Halas McCaskey, who died past week astatine property 102.

The shot matriarch known arsenic “Mama Bear” had owned the squad since her father, NFL co-founder George Halas, died successful 1983.

McCaskey was known for her passionateness for football, though she near overmuch of the hands-on absorption to her husband, Ed McCaskey. She helmed the squad during its 1985 Super Bowl win. Bent connected keeping the squad wrong the family, McCaskey handed the reins to Michael, the oldest of her 11 children, and 4 of her different sons are connected the Bears’ committee of directors.

The “First Lady of the NFL,” arsenic narrator Lauren Screeden called her successful a video tribute connected Saturday, McCaskey said she couldn’t person imagined it immoderate different way.

“I’ve been truthful blessed that this has been my life,” she said. “I can’t deliberation of immoderate different mode I would privation to beryllium surviving my life.”

The McCaskey tribute was 1 of respective held earlier crippled time, with honors besides going to victims and archetypal responders to the brutal New Year’s violent onslaught connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans, wherever Super Bowl LIX is being held.

With News Wire Services