No One Believed These Dick Butkus Stories! Until They Watched This!
Dick Butkus was the most feared man in football — yet in nine brutal seasons he never played a single playoff game. This is the story they broke.
In September 1970, Sports Illustrated put Dick Butkus on its cover and called him the most feared man in the game. Opposing running backs admitted they prayed before carrying the ball near him. Coaches said they'd build a franchise around him over any quarterback in the league. He recovered more fumbles than any defender in NFL history and redefined the middle linebacker position with his bare hands.
And none of it — not the eight Pro Bowls, not the Hall of Fame — could hide the cruelest fact of his career: the greatest linebacker who ever lived never once took the field in January.
This is the full story of the boy from Chicago's far South Side who decided in the fifth grade to become a professional football player — and did. From Chicago Vocational to two-way All-American at Illinois, from the greatest draft any team ever made to the destroyed right knee that ended everything at 31. We tell the truth about the cortisone, the lawsuit against the Bears and their team doctor, the five years of silence with George Halas, and the reconciliation that finally brought him home. And we set the record straight on how Dick Butkus actually died — because the ending is not the one you're expecting.
A devoted husband of 60 years. A gentle grandfather who steered his own grandson away from the game. The most feared man in football, and the tender man behind the helmet.
These are the stories behind the helmets.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — The Most Feared Man In The Game
01:58 — The South Side Boy With One Dream
03:52 — Seventy Percent Of Every Tackle
05:44 — All-American On Both Sides Of The Ball
07:40 — The Greatest Draft A Team Ever Made
09:34 — The Most Feared Man In The Game
11:36 — The Monster Who Went Home To Helen
13:30 — Nine Years, And Never One January
15:20 — The Knee That Cortisone Couldn't Save
17:18 — Suing The Team He Loved
19:14 — The Ten Minutes That Gave Him Twenty Years
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