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Super Bowl championship ( XX) Virginia Halas McCaskey ( née Virginia Marion Halas; January 5, 1923) is an American football executive who is the principal owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). She is the daughter of team founder George Halas and inherited ownership upon his death in 1983.
Jan 5, 2023 · Editor's note: This story originally ran on Jan. 5, 2023, Virginia Halas McCaskey's 100th birthday. Virginia Halas McCaskey will celebrate her 100th birthday Thursday, a joyous and momentous occasion to be sure, but not one the matriarch of the Chicago Bears wants to make a fuss about. "She put us on notice months ago that she did not want a ...
Sep 13, 2022 · Before George Halas passed away, he divided his 49.35% control of the team into 13 equal stakes for his grandchildren (3.8% each). It was mostly a way to avoid a heavy tax burden. Virginia, his daughter, was given voting power over those shares *in addition* to the 20% she already owned.
The only daughter of legendary Pro Football Hall of Famer George Halas, Virginia Halas McCaskey has served as the Bears' principal owner since her father's death in 1983. But she has been closely involved with the famed franchise nearly since its inception more than a century ago. Mrs. McCaskey was born Jan. 5, 1923, less than three years after ...
- Virginia McCaskey’s parents were surprised their firstborn was a girl. “I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival would be George Stanley Halas Jr.,” the founder and owner of the Bears admitted in the 1979 book, “Halas by Halas: The Autobiography of George Halas.”
- Red Grange used her to sneak past fans. Pro football was struggling to build an audience, so George Halas, Red Grange and the Bears went on a 19-game, 66-day barnstorming tour to drum up interest during the winter of 1925.
- What she remembers from the 1st NFL championship game: ‘the odor.’ In 1932, when she was 9, McCaskey attended the NFL’s first championship game at Chicago Stadium, where the Bears beat the Spartans of Portsmouth, Ohio, 9-0.
- She went to Drexel University — and majored in secretarial studies. McCaskey enrolled at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1939 when she was 16 and lived with her Uncle Walter, who was the school’s football, baseball and basketball coach.
Jan 5, 2023 · George Halas, center, accompanied by his childen George Halas Jr. and Virginia McCaskey, leave St. Ita's Church on Feb., 17, 1966, following the funeral for his wife, Minnie, who died at age 70 of ...
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Jan 5, 2023 · George Halas, center, accompanied by his childen George Halas Jr. and Virginia McCaskey, leave St. Ita's Church on Feb., 17, 1966, following the funeral for his wife, Minnie, who died at age 70 of ...
