Biography
Michael Keller Ditka (born Michael Dyczko; October 18, 1939) is an American former football player, coach, and television commentator. During his playing career, he was UPI NFL Rookie of Year in 1961, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, and a six-time All-Pro tight end with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL); he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988. Ditka was the first tight end in NFL history to reach 1,000 yards receiving.
He was an NFL champion with the 1963 Bears and is a three-time Super Bowl champion, playing on the Cowboys' Super Bowl VI team, winning as an assistant coach for the Cowboys in Super Bowl XII, and coaching the Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX. He was named to the NFL's 75th- and 100th-Anniversary All-Time Teams.
As a head coach for the Bears from 1982 to 1992, he was twice both the AP and UPI NFL Coach of Year (1985 and 1988). He also was the head coach of the New Orleans Saints from 1997 to 1999.
Ditka and Tom Flores are the only people to win an NFL title as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka, Flores, Gary Kubiak, and Doug Pederson are also the only people in modern NFL history to win a championship as head coach of a team for which they played previously. Ditka is the only person to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' league championships, as a player in 1963 and as head coach in 1985.
In 2020, Ditka became the owner of the X League, a women's tackle football league that was originally the Lingerie Football League.He is known by the nickname "Iron Mike", which he has said comes from his being born and raised in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
Filmography
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self 19
Movies 15
TV Shows 9
Requiem for a Running Back (2017)
The Fog Bowl (2016)
'85: The Greatest Team in Pro Football History (2016)
The United States of Football (2013)
The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story (2011)
Get Coached by Mike Ditka (2010)
Blood Equity (2009)
Heckler (2007)
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions (2006)
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
The Tim McCarver Show (2005)
Entourage (2004)
Maximum Surge (2003)
According to Jim (2001)
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
A Night to Die For (1995)
Outside the Lines (1990)
The Grabowski Shuffle (1987)
L.A. Law (1986)
Crunch Course (1986)
Cheers (1982)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Brian's Song (1971)
Pure Payton
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GenderMale
Birthday1939-10-18 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceCarnegie, United States of America
Height191-centimeter
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsPro Football Hall of Fame
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