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  Dick Butkus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butkus was twice a unanimous All-American, in 1963 and 1964.
Butkus was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983, and is one of only two players to have a uniform number (#50) retired by the University of Illinois.
Butkus' role in the booth was that of "cheerleader," as his devotion to the team appeared to have never waned.
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 ESPN.com: Butkus was one mean Bear
Butkus not only hits, he crushes and squeezes opponents with thick arms that also are extremely long.
Butkus, as mean as ever as a senior, repeated as an All-American in 1964.
Butkus, who is in both the college and pro hall of fames, spends his time these days golfing and acting.
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 TSN Presents - Football's 100 Greatest Players
Dick Butkus' road to the Hall of Fame was paved with blood, sweat, pain -- and the intense anger that coursed through the veins of the most celebrated middle linebackers.
Butkus' misfortune was that he played for weak Chicago teams that never challenged for NFL superiority.
Butkus' incredible instinct for the ball can be documented by the 25 opponent fumbles he recovered and the 22 interceptions he recorded in 119 professional games.
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 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Dick Butkus possessed with a desire to excel that few have ever equaled.
Dick had drive, meanness, a consuming desire to pursue, tackle, and manhandle — anything he could do to thwart the enemy on every play.
Butkus had the speed and agility to make tackles from sideline to sideline and to cover the best tight ends and running backs on pass plays.
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 ESPN Classic - Butkus was one mean Bear
Butkus was born Dec. 9, 1942, into a Lithuanian blue-collar family in the Roseland section of Chicago's South Side.
Butkus, who is in the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame, led the Bears in tackles for eight straight seasons.
Despite the discomfort, Butkus made 117 tackles and 68 assists, recovered three fumbles and intercepted four passes in 1971.
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 Chicago Bears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1970, a panel of NFL coaches voted Butkus the player they would prefer to start with if they were building a new team from ground up with no other players on the roster.
Dick continues to stay in the public eye through television commercials, movie bit parts and running the Dick Butkus Football Network.
In Dick's case, it was a right knee that was injured first in 1970.
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 Amazon.com: Butkus : Flesh and Blood: Books: Dick Butkus,Pat Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Butkus has axes to grind, and he grinds them wonderfully, but he also is capable of examining his own behavior.
Butkus is certainly one of the all-time greats of professional football, whose easy election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame was assured and whose personal life is by all counts above reproach.
Butkus writes of his close-knit family and, in what is probably the strongest part of the book, describes his nearly impoverished Chicago youth.
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Dick Butkus is the name of a legendary Chicago football player.
Dick Butkus American professional National Football League (NFL) middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears who was the dominant defensive player of his era.
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 Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus says he knew in fifth grade he'd be a professional football player.
Butkus was a fierce tackler who took great pride and pleasure in inflicting pain upon his opponents.
Butkus began racking up awards in high school, as Associated Press's Prep Player of the Year.
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 Dick Butkus
's South Side, Butkus knew by the fifth grade what he was going to be.
He also made the favorite play of his career: a catch for a conversion point off a botched snap on an extra point that turned out to be the difference in a 16-15
For Butkus, it all fell apart in 1973.
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 Dick Butkus
Twice named All-American during his football-playing days at the University of Illinois, Dick Butkus went on to spend eight years (1965-1973) as linebacker for the Chicago Bears.
The 6'3," 245-pound Butkus left pro football after a knee injury in 1973 but kept his hand in as a sportscaster, eventually with Chicago's WGN radio.
Most often, however, Dick Butkus has simply and satisfactorily played "himself," first in the award-winning TV movie Brian's Song (1970), and later in such films as Gremlins 2 (1991) and The Last Boy Scout (1993).
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 AskMen.com - Dick Butkus
Butkus has appeared in a few sitcoms, but he had a prominent role on Hang Time, a late 1990s teenybopper series that was part of NBC's Saturday morning lineup.
Butkus scowled at his basketball players as if he was on the gridiron.
In one of the more ridiculous scenes, Katowinski was taking his daughter to a football game and mentioned that Dick Butkus will sing the national anthem.
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 Deadspin - Dick Butkus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dick Butkus, who was “hired” to “coach” a Pennsylvania high school team, has left the team in the middle of the season, saying he had met his contractual obligations.
We’re assuming one of those contractual obligation wasn’t to actually coach; the Post-Gazette has detailed in great detail how Butkus has anything but a real head coach, with “real” coach Lou Cerro — who had been hired before ESPN invaded — running the team.
ESPN is pulling its cameras from the series along with Butkus; Cerro says, “They’re telling us that to do the final two weeks of the season would cost them between $1.5 million and $2 million.”
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 Dick Butkus - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Butkus did return to the Bears as a color analyst in 1985, teaming with first-year play-by-play man Wayne Larrivee and former St. Louis Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart.
Dick is currently coaching the Montour Spartans, one of the many football teams in the W.P.I.A.L. around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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 CNN/SI - Century's Best - - Thursday July 08, 1999 11:11 AM
His goal, the true Monster of the Midway once admitted, was to hit the ballcarrier so hard that his head came off.
If the mayhem he wrought in nine NFL seasons did not include any beheadings, it wasn't for lack of effort.
Butkus had range and brains, but the thing that made him an archetype -- the best middle linebacker in football history -- was his toughness, his Old Testament malevolence, his wet-your-pants intensity.
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Butkus was a seven time All Pro and played in eight pro bowls.
The annual award given to the top linebacker in college is named after Butkus.
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For the first time, legendary linebacker Dick Butkus recounts his entire life story, from growing up in a blue-collar family on Chicago's South Side to his epic nine seasons with the Chicago Bears.
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