Comments for Mike Ditka gets angry ... in his underwear

Mike Ditka gets angry ... in his underwear

2010-01-06T14:42:22Z

I recently spent some time with a good friend who I will call Al. Al is a former police officer who is now retired. Al had one of those very first satellite dishes, you know, the ones that were enormous and you had to have built in your backyard?

Back then if you were watching TV via a satellite dish, you not only got the program you wanted, you also got the off camera interaction while the station you were tuned to was playing commercials.

What you are about to watch is never before seen footage of former CBS anchor Johnny Morris, as he anchors a post game show following a Bears victory over the Minnesota Vikings. The date is October 9, 1988, and the win moved the Bears to 5-1 with a game against the Dallas Cowboys coming up the next week.

Sit back and enjoy, and don't miss the ending, because it's classic! Please forward this on to your friends. They won't believe it when they see it. (Note: there is explicit language.)

Comment from SpawnOfDitka on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T15:29:54Z

Beautiful! Nice to see that Johnny could hold his own with 'Da Coach.

Comment from Mike Burzawa on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T18:47:50Z

DAAAA COOOAAACHHHH!!!!

Comment from *dan bradley on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T20:04:18Z

That was so awesome. MAN i miss that!

Comment from Lauren Strec on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T20:07:33Z

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Comment from Garrard McClendon on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T20:21:32Z

Dave Kaplan and Matt Knutson:
I wish Lovie had this much fire...Ditka was crued, harsh, un-sandpapered...but he won a SuperBowl. Johnny Morris had guts to talk to him like that...The respect was tremendous between the two. Morris was also a great player on the Bears, back in da Day.

Great post...great tweet and YouTube. Enjoyed it... Thanks Dave.

Comment from Max Power on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T20:46:39Z

That. Was. Awesome.

I miss the days when the Bears were good and pretty much everything abouth them was entertaining. Kind of the opposite of today's Bears.

Johnny Morris, who came across as incredibly stiff and vanilla on the air, was anything but, like this shows. He used to frequent a couple establishments owned by a company I once worked for and he was a total different off camera. Pretty straight shooter, but a good guy. He would give away Bears tickets as tips. This was back when the Bears were DA BEARS, so that was a big deal.

Comment from David Wallach on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T22:15:43Z

I wonder how Da' Coach would react of someone pulled that on him, now that he is on the other side of things? Great job Kap.

Comment from Balboa on 2010-01-06

2010-01-06T22:39:13Z

Kap, Awesome......John and him go way back, like a couple of old ladies....

Comment from SouthSideGT on 2010-01-06

2010-01-07T01:25:12Z

It's sad (but not surprising) when a 21 year-old clip featuring a fired Bear coach in his skivvies generates more interest and excitement than the present day Bears. At least it wasn't a clip of Abe Gibron in his underwear (shudder).

Comment from Edelweiss on 2010-01-06

2010-01-07T05:27:10Z

The last time I saw Morris was at Arlington Park, playing the ponies, two years ago. He looked good then, for his age. Since the Bears are hard up for receivers, they ought to resurrect Morris and Ditka.

Comment from jdbcubfan on 2010-01-06

2010-01-07T05:30:56Z

Classic Ditka!!! I'm not so sure Da Coach was actually wearing any underwear... Keepem coming, Kap...

Comment from arch21002 on 2010-01-07

2010-01-07T06:21:26Z

Ditka was a tool and a mediocre coach that got people to love him because he spit fire and acted like an ass. I'll take Lovie's personality all day before someone like this clown who shows no respect to anyone and has no class. Lovie greater man than Da Coach will ever be, at least he is a gentlemen. Ditka didn't win anything without Buddy Ryan, and that is the facts. Sucked in New Orleans as well.

People like him, Bobby Knight, and Bill Parcells rip the media their entire careers and then they become media members right when they retire. All a bunch of ego-maniac hypocrites.

Comment from Darrylx77 on 2010-01-07

2010-01-07T08:19:37Z

Mike Ditka is the man. I wish that he was still apart the the Bears organization. He brought the fire, he held players accountable, he wanted to win, and if you did not have passion for wearing the Chicago Bears uniform, you were gone. He gave not only the Chicago Bears an identity, he gave the city of Chicago an identity. It was a sad day in the city of Chicago when he was fired!!!!!

Comment from Illini on 2010-01-07

2010-01-07T16:40:06Z

Ditka and Knight have both addressed the irony of being jackasses to the media and now having the shoe on the other foot. Kap, more of these and less inflammatory editorial a la Skip Bayless in your blog posts, please. :)

Comment from Mr.Simple on 2010-01-07

2010-01-08T02:26:59Z

Yes Ditka was an ass and spitting fire but he had a good point. Getting asked the same questions over an over again with the media hoping for a different answer must get really old. I get that it comes with the job and the pay and all that, it was just nice to see a coach wear his emotions on his sleeve and call it like it was. No BS. Like him or not, he added a hell of a lot of fun to the Bears.

Comment from harvey on 2010-01-08

2010-01-09T01:18:59Z

Dave....a little fact checking never hurt anyone, even a pro like you. Open up any Bears media guide and you'll see it was against the LIons on the road in the Silverdome, not Vikings , that this locker room classic took place...

Comment from tim leslie on 2010-01-13

2010-01-14T04:22:45Z

Ditka was at his best (worst?) when he had been drinking. He would literally say anything that popped into his mind. I get so sick of listening to the utter pap that spills from the mouth of our current coach!