A child of Roseland, the Chicago Bears' Dick Butkus embodied the work ethic of his generation in what was still a working man’s town, factories humming.
One of the first non-Native people to set foot here, in what would eventually become Chicago, was a French explorer named Robert Cavalier, sieur de la Salle, and he had this to say, “The typical man who will grow up here must be an enterprising man. Each day, as he rises, he will exclaim, ‘I act, I move, I push.’ ' Dick Butkus was no typical man but how easy it is to imagine his rising each football game day and saying, “I move, I push, I bite.
I was lucky enough to have watched Butkus play in the intimate setting of Wrigley Field, many dreary seasons during which he and Gale Sayers were the only reasons to even watch a game. But it was palpably violent. The Bears' Dick Butkus intercepts a pass intended for Cincinnati's Bob Trumpy in the fourth quarter of their game on Nov. 26, 1972.
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