With the passing of Chicago Bears owner Virginia Halas McCaskey on Thursday, an era has closed for the Bears and the National Football League.
As the daughter of George Halas, McCaskey was one of the few threads still connecting the NFL’s past to its present. Halas purchased the Bears in 1920 and is considered one of the key architects of the early NFL days. One of the first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963, Halas played and coached for the Bears and changed football forever by implementing the T-formation offense in the late 1930s.
He owned the franchise for 63 seasons before he died in 1983. Upon his death, his eldest daughter, Virginia, succeeded him as the team’s majority owner and oversaw the team until her death. Her last game as owner was a last-second win for the Bears over the archrival Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in the 2024 regular-season finale, marking Chicago’s first win over the Packers since Dec. 16, 2018.
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