Former Bears coach Mike Ditka appeared on Westwood One’s Monday Night Football pregame show with Jim Gray before the Vikings-Bears game. It was supposed to be a standard pregame hit before the game, but it quickly skidded off the rails.
You would think the talk would focus on Bears rookie quarterback Mitch Trubisky, but most of the six-minute segment centered on the NFL’s ongoing issue of team personnel kneeling during the national anthem.