Mike Ditka in Kicking AND... | 2005

Clip Name: Winning Speech

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Mike Ditka in Kicking and Screaming | 2005

Starring: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall and Mike Ditka
Directed by: Jesse Dylan
About this actor

Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania), also known as "Iron Mike", is a former American football NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years and New Orleans Saints for three years. Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two people to win Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka was the only individual to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' championships, as a player in 1963 and as head coach in 1985. Mike's childhood name was Mike Dyczko. His father was one of three brothers of a Polish Ukrainian family in the coal mining and steel manufacturing area in Western Pennsylvania. The name Dyczko (pronounced ditch-co in Polish) was something of a tongue-twister in his hometown, so the family name was changed to "Ditka." He was born in the Pittsburgh-area town of Carnegie on October 18, 1939 and grew up in nearby Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. In elementary school, he was...