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But the sad sack Forrest Gregg Packer teams of the 1980s had nothing to do with the the long, slow demise of the Bears after their 1985 team won the Super Bowl. Mama’s boy Michael McCaskey took care of that. The McCaskeys so feared the growing power of the football people who built that team in the early 80s that they ran the Bears football brain trust (Jim Finks, Vainisi, the Tobins,et al.) out of town as soon as they could after winning their court case against the Mugs Halas branch of the family over the George Halas estate. It was Mugs Halas who talked George into letting go of control, bringing in Finks, and letting Finks and his people build the team. Finks himself actually resigned from the team that he built just after the court case was over (and just before the Bears Super Bowl year) because he must have seen the handwriting on the wall. Why else would he toil for almost 10 years to build something, only to leave just before the fun part? He knew he would be out because he was Mugs Halas’ guy. Vainisi was next after the Super Bowl. Then eventually both of the Tobins. It took a few years for such a great team to fade away, but fade they did. I’m sure the McCaskey amily were relieved when Ditka did his meltdown in 1992, so they could finally have all over their control back, with little McCaskeys running all around the front office. Michael McCaskey taught at Harvard and wrote a book about management. But seeing the hash he made of the once proud Bears organization, culminating with the laughable fiasco over the botched hiring of Dave McGinnis as coach after Wannstedt, I am more convinced than ever that those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach (and those who can’t teach, teach gym). I myself knew that the rules had just changed when I saw Michael McCaskey hoist a Super Bowl trophy that he had made absolutely no contribution to winning.

Packer fans should most of all consider themselves lucky to have the ownership structure that the have. After 50 years here in Chicago watching the know-nothing nepotistic offspring of franchise founders like George Halas ruin once great organizations because of their fear of losing control (see also Bill Wirtz and what he did to the Blackhawks), I hope you appreciate what you have.