John "Moon" MullinCSNChicago
Memories are so often more snapshots than motion picture and so it is with Mike Singletary.My first year covering the Chicago Bears was Singletarys last, 1992. Coincidentally it also was Mike Ditkas final year coaching the Bears, though the three were unrelated.Mike had already made the decision that the 1992 season would be his last. Talking with him in Platteville, his last time there, he told me he got off the phone with his wife Kim one night and simply cried.As tough physically, mentally and physically as any in the game before or since, and he was crying in his dorm room.Later that season, one that went into death spiral with Jim Harbaughs audible in the Minnesota game and never really pulled out, the team lost six straight games, most by double-digits.READ MORE AT CSNChicago.com
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