Chicago Bears – Virginia McCaskey (George McCaskey/Michael McCaskey)

In 1999, Michael McCaskey was removed as team president after a fiasco of a head-coaching search in which Dave McGinnis was announced as Dave Wannstedt’s replacement before agreeing to contract terms, blowing up the deal. He lasted another decade as the team’s nfl jerseys
chairman of the board before ostensibly announcing his resignation – effective at the end of this season, when he’ll be replaced by younger brother George, the team’s senior director of ticket operations. “That’s how desperate his mother [Virginia] is,” one rival owner speculated. “She replaced him with her son from the box office. I mean, how hard of a job is being the ticket manager for the Bears?” Not that pedigree bears much meaning in the McCaskey family. After all, Michael, achina nfl jerseys
former Harvard business professor, managed a storied franchise in the nation’s No. 3 media market and will leave behind a financial state of affairs that, in relative terms, can best be described as flaccid. “It’s just mismanagement,” another owner says. “They really should be the tops in revenue, ahead of Dallas. Someday someone else will get a hold of that thing and it’ll be a monster.” Uh, maybe not. After announcing he was stepping down Michael McCaskey told reporters, “We intend for our family to own the Bears as long as you care to think about it.” As a going-away present, at a time when even the most free-spending of his peers went out of nfl throwback jersey
their way to demonstrate financial restraint in anticipation of a labor showdown, Michael McCaskey doled out a six-year, $91.5 million contract to free-agent defensive end Julius Peppers(notes), despite the perception that there were no other serious bidders – then hiked ticket prices on 75 percent of the seats at Soldier Field.