In late April, Steve McMichael was the most active character on the Bears in 1985. In an interview with WGN, it was revealed that he was diagnosed with ALS and is usually referred to as Luge Grieg. (Lou Gehrig) Illness paralyzed his shoulder. For fans of the frenetic antics on the court and the co-host of Mark Giangreco on the NBC-5 post-match show, this is a difficult scene. In December 1991, Marcia Froelke Coburn attracted McMichael with his tenacious charm when McMichael was writing a profile for the magazine, while he was still with his ex-wife Debra at the time.
He walked into the TV news editing room on Channel 5 and cleared a lot of phlegm from his throat. This is how Mongo (Mongo) became famous after the character of Alex Karras in “The Blazing Saddle” announced his existence. Then, he took a Bowie hunting knife (a gift from the personal Kevin Matthews of WLUP radio station to the present) and murmured it on the producer’s table on.
This is the first night of the new season, whether it is a football match or McMichael’s sports match on Sunday. The Bears defeated Minnesota this afternoon. Now, a certain degree of tension and excitement is floating in the air. What will Mike Michael do tonight?
Given his past performances, it’s hard to tell. He broke the stunt bottle on Mark Giangreco’s neat head, sprayed him with whipped cream and champagne, and then pressed him so that Debra could paint his mouth with lipstick. Sometimes Pepe of McMichael’s Chihuahua appears wearing his own miniature football helmet (drawn by Debra) or a red square (stitched by Steve) In the show.
As the ruling bear and bad TV star, Steve McMichael has tears in his eyes. But he still spends time getting dressed for his beautiful wife Debra
He knows the secret of success, and success-just like love-is a very brilliant thing.
Some people worship him, some people hate him. Some people call him “that man”, as in “I love football, but I can’t stand that man”. Some people believe that he is the heir to the Joker throne that was vacant after Jim McMahon left. Some people think that he is the only survivor of a raging personality cleansing in the past few years. Some people want to kick him out of the goal post and then out of town.
That, and the fact that this place was jumping when he walked into his house. The TV personality from ESPN is waiting to interview him. Her crew searched around, laid cables and installed lights to capture some of his casual time at home in the movie. The magazine writer wandered around, immersed in the atmosphere. A newspaper reporter asked for a quote on the phone. McMichael’s wife said that he made two calls and must return it within an hour. At least, he thinks that’s what she said. The dog, stirred by all the strangers and noisemakers, yelled at his feet.
Before he even had a chance to figure out what happened in the first place, he knocked on the door-a few neighbors’ children needed some signatures on the bubble gum card.
All the attention has been here for a long time. And here it is now-now he is the person of the moment, the team, or the town-Steve McMichael can’t help but express his indignation.
”Where has everyone been in the past ten years?” The veteran was asked to defend the Bears. “I have been here since 1981 to participate in every game. In all these cold winters, I have paid my dues.” It seems that he has just emerged from the downturn. He has been selected to All-Pro twice. He was a member of the team that won the Super Bowl in 1986. In the past two years, he has ranked first or second on defense in the Bears’ internal scoring system.
He can go on. But what’s the point? Statistics apply to losers. However, he just wants to know why this wave has waited until now-when he was 34 years old, he was the oldest member of the bear-before entering his life.
Of course, this is a reference to his post-match show on WMAQ-TV, in which McMichael was placed in front of the live camera. He is known to brandish hunting knives (usually used to stir coffee or pick teeth) or to crack eggs on the face of host sports host Mark Giangreco. He joked about people’s religious beliefs and sexual preferences, and called his 31-year-old blonde queen Debra and her good friends “Kotex Mafia.” He is just a country boy in Texas who likes to raise goats.
Usually, he will succeed. PTA condemned him, sports writers and TV critics listed him as a print, and one of WMAQ’s own news anchors suggested to him with polite, ladylike words that he should take an attitude and push him to a place where the sun doesn’t shine-it’s best to ask Don’t be when he is broadcasting.
”Yes, I can irritate people,” McMichael said. “But even if they can’t stand me, it’s still difficult for them to look away from me. Do you know why?” He lowered his voice, preparing to share his secret. “They worry that one day my last brain cell will suddenly pop out and I will fall to the edge. They don’t want to miss it.”
They are an incredible pair, just like the characters in modern fairy tales: the reigning Chicago Beauty and the Beast. As an athlete, he is one of the few bright lights on a low-gloss team. As a TV personality, he intimidated the local radio waves, elevating boldness and bad taste into an art form. She is a hissing, charming cat, and her sweetness changes with cleverness. She is his rock; he gave her a great proof.
Face to face, McMichaels couldn’t help but buzz. Their style is Southern Gothic: Steve likes streamlined silk shirts and pants, Tony Lama cowboy boots and John Lennon Jr. style sunglasses. Debra likes clothes with bright colors (aqua, red, orange or pink) and very delicate (studs, mirrors or sequins), big earrings and golden high heels. He likes the Kieselstein-Cord belt. She has a weakness for her so-called “growth room” jewelry: bracelets and rings plus room for more diamonds. During the day, he drove a Ford Mustang to Harrah’s Hall, and she was pulling the black Cadillac. But in the evening, they took a red Rolls Royce cruise around the city.
In the world of professional sports, they are a very active couple. In the past few years, Debra followed Steve to Platteville so that they could spend the rest of the training camp together.
She said: “I don’t understand why you want to marry someone and then you don’t spend all your time with him.”
He said: “I will tell you that being with boys doesn’t motivate me to play football.”
At this moment, their lives are like a perfect game, everything is ready, they made the right move.
He walked into the TV news editing room on Channel 5 and cleared a lot of phlegm from his throat. This is how Mongo (Mongo) became famous after the character of Alex Karras in “The Blazing Saddle” announced his existence. Then, he took a Bowie hunting knife (a gift from the personal Kevin Matthews of WLUP radio station to the present) and murmured it on the producer’s table on.
This is the first night of the new season, whether it is a football match or McMichael’s sports match on Sunday. The Bears defeated Minnesota this afternoon. Now, a certain degree of tension and excitement is floating in the air. What will Mike Michael do tonight?
She is a charming cat, and her sweetness is tempered by smart people. She is his rock; he gave her a great proof.
Given his past performances, it’s hard to tell. He broke the stunt bottle on Mark Giangreco’s neat head, sprayed him with whipped cream and champagne, and then pressed him so that Debra could paint his mouth with lipstick. Sometimes Pepe of McMichael’s Chihuahua appears wearing his own miniature football helmet (drawn by Debra) or a red square (stitched by Steve) In the show.
Tonight, McMichael was active, at least as active as the 6-foot-2 and 270-pound Texas solid beef. “Can you say “jerk” on TV after 10:30 in the evening?” he asked. “I’m just checking because I know I can’t say something. Once.” Then he went on to list another obscene item. Debra was as ruthless as ever, putting her hands on her eyes. Giangreco and the producer of the show laughed, albeit a bit nervous. After ten minutes, the person will sit in front of the live camera.
”When the show starts, ask me how I feel.” McMichael told Giangreco. Therefore, a few minutes later, Giangreco appeared in front of the first audience of this season, “So, how is Steve?”
Mongo said: “Okay, the toilet paper is stained with a little blood, and I found one of Debra’s Lee Press-On Nails in my underwear.” Giangreco was visibly white. On the sidelines, the producers flinched and gasped. Debra shook his head. She said: “I can’t control him.”
Go with the flow. Towards the end of the show, McMichael took out his hunting knife and held it a few inches from Giangreco’s throat. Then, he sprayed him with a silly string. The performance is over.
A minute later, the phone on Giangreco’s desk rang. This is NBC’s public relations staff. Giangreco listened for a minute or two, then responded. “Where have you been in the past year?” he asked. “This is what we are going to do. That’s the show.”
Before McMichael joined “Sports Sunday” in September 1990, Giangreco held a keel show with the Bears’ defensive tackle Dave Duerson during the football season. When Bear told Duerson to leave, Debra McMichael encouraged her husband to ask for the job. (“I know Steve will be nice because he is funny, you can hire him to a party,” she said.) He did it, but WMAQ-TV is also considering Mike Singletary for this position. Finally, Singletary (a perfectionist) wanted script control, rehearsal and remakes. McMichael is willing to help.
In his first show, McMichael started almost every sentence: “Oh, Jesus Christ…” In the second week, he made a joke. In the third show, the word “Kotex Mafia” rang on the Chicago radio waves. When this guy said he was willing to wing for the wings, he was not joking.
Suddenly, the whole city was talking about this cannon called McMichael. Over the years, Johnny Morris and coach Mike Ditka of Channel 2 had this time. In less than a month in 1990, Channel 5’s ratings almost doubled.
For WMAQ, the question becomes: how to downgrade the man who gave the term “defense authority” a new meaning without losing the advantage? For Mongo, the answer is to move away from shock tactics and turn to farce. (Nevertheless, he still likes to include “Kotex Mafia” in his live conversations. In a recent show, he compared his post-match situation with that of prostitutes-”I have been working hard and making it. “Wet” and call its fans “Mongoloids”.)
The result is their own gain: more than 200,000 homes participated in the event to watch McMichael’s opening night this fall. Week after week, the ratings showed that he and Ditka had this time period almost at a loss. Variables that affect weekly results include performances such as performances starting later due to outdated games (whoever broadcasts usually wins at night), and cross-references related to these performances that first cut into low-level sports reports, such as golf or High level-school football matches (whoever enters the junior league usually suffers severe losses from spectators).
Again, the result may be a major league headache. “[McMichael] is one of the least evolved members of mankind,” “Sun Times” TV and radio sports columnist Barry Cronin wrote after the premiere of “Sports Sunday” in September this year . “One day, the audience may think that Meng Ge will actually stab Giangreco in front of the camera to death with the hunting knife he carried with him.”
A week later, “The Sun Times” columnist Richard Roeper (Richard Roeper) quoted the name of a woman who called him and started his column. She told Roeper: “‘I want you to write a column and instruct Channel 5 to broadcast this Steve McMichael character.”
Giangreco said: “I don’t think people should fall off their chairs because of Steve.” “This is old news, and he might do shocking things. People don’t have to watch. So if they do. , And then shocked, that’s because they want to be.”
McMichael’s view is this: his job is to win people’s attention. This is why he is a defensive player. Therefore, sometimes some of them will spill into the real world. What’s all the fuss about? “They promote Kotex on TV, don’t they?” he said. Regarding complaining that he often made a joke or used Giangreco as a punching bag instead of discussing the game of the day, he replied: “Football can be analyzed, isn’t it? Good guy. “What happened to this drama? “Well, it either works or it doesn’t work, right?”
For him, it’s very simple. Football is not a beautiful sport. It becomes soft and dirty due to blood, pain and sweat. Do you want to be beautiful? Find a baseball player.
Their house in Mundelein is a country-style leisure place. (They bought it from Dave Duerson.) They called it a “little lake house” because their main estate was pink Santa Fe-style grapes distributed in Austin, Texas. They live there from February to mid-summer. When the training camp started, they packed their Louis Vuitton suitcases and their six pets (three dogs, three cats), and then returned to Mundelein to sell this season.
Although the entire back of the three-bedroom house has a magnificent view of Diamond Lake, the place has a cocoon-like texture. This is where they stay away from the world (or get used to it until the world comes to them). The living room has comfortable sofas, Chinese vases, statues of foo dogs, Debra’s abstract expressionist paintings and pink curtains from floor to ceiling, making everyone’s face red.
Below the spiral staircase, there is a custom-designed pool table, which is a Christmas gift from Debra to Steve. Downstairs there is also a weight room with mirror, equipped with a multi-station general gym and sunbeds. They closed the outdoor swimming pool a few years ago. Steve said: “If we want to swim, we will swim in Austin.” For all practical purposes, the white kitchen was also closed. “I just hate cooking and housework,” Debra said.
She likes to go out. He likes to stay at home. They are crazy about each other, so they compromise: most of the time, they go out. Together they created their own little romantic world. He brought her flowers. She left a note in his wallet. He put the hunting knife in her jewelry box.
They have been married for six years (no plans to have children); on the fifth anniversary of their founding, they renewed their vows in Kona, Hawaii. The Bears kicker Kevin Butler and him His wife, Cathy, serves as their waiter. They tend to complete each other’s sentences, although not always in accordance with the original speaker’s intentions. This leads to a loop-back, cross-reference dialogue, which is a Georgian and Gracie convention, southern style.
He thinks their relationship is karma. Meeting Debra changed his whole attitude. He said: “If you are a game, first pay attention to her feelings, and then think about yourself.” “You always put it in the parameters of Well, if I want to do this, how will it affect her? ?”
She thought that there was a sweet teddy bear in the macho giant. “When I participated in the beauty contest, one night I put on a dress and pulled the hem-”
She likes to go out. He likes to stay at home. They are crazy about each other, so they compromise: most of the time, they go out.
She said: “You said the way out and signed the bubble gum card.” “He bought thread and needles in the store, and then came back to wrap my evening dress. Because he knew I had to wear it the next night. The three-inch gap in the beaded dress. It took him a few hours.”
”Where is that red dress?” Steve asked, and all the embarrassment suddenly disappeared. “Why not show her the beautiful hem I put on?”
Debra ducked away, then reappeared in a beaded robe with delicate turns and precise stitched hem. “Now, are there any other husbands who would do this?” she asked.
Debra tried to explain to him. “This is how people live in Texas. Unless they are noisy, they won’t be happy.”
He said: “Sometimes I am not funny, but I am always annoying.” He sighed for people who are often misunderstood. “I am a country. And I don’t want to change. I see these fastened, tie-dye, wind tunnel tested boys here, and I think, oh no, it’s not me, brother.”
Therefore, he shocked people. He likes the weak reaction he can produce. It has become a habit now; he opened his mouth and jumped up in a matter of minutes! Someone is feeling different about something.
He did this because he didn’t like boredom. “Different, isn’t it? It’s ridiculous, damn it. I don’t care what others say, you are laughing at some of my things. Now, in the future, you may think, Jeez, I must be an idiot, laugh like this—”
He has his own habit: on match day, he must wear the same black underwear and the same black socks to the stadium. And he must walk around on the court a few hours before the start of the game, echoing the hashtag. When any part of his uniform is used up, he hates it. He refused to give up his favorite pants until his hips cracked while walking around in the Tampa Bay game. Even so, he still asked for them to be repaired (he was worried that it would bring bad luck to the new pair), but they were too far away.
And he can be a rough boy. Earlier this year, he was involved in an animal house-style food battle at a golf game held at a suburban country club. He said: “I’m not sure if I want to start it, but I know I’ve been in it all the time.”
Then there is his public display of the knife. “Sigmund Freud would say this is a symbol of a penis, wouldn’t it?” he said. He said that the knife head is just a relic from his country era. Others, including Garry Meier, a character on the WLUP-AM radio station, were indeed threatened by McMichael.
”Oh, just because I said I was going to cut them off,” he said with a smile. “I think I also had a gun at Garry Meier, didn’t I?” The incident happened when McMichael met Meier at a charity. Meier and his partner Steve Dahl were annoyed (or pretended to be true) at these remarks on the live broadcast. McMichael brandished their weapons and said, “You and your fat friend It’s better not to talk about me anymore.”
”Oh, they are just props,” McMichael said today. “It’s just a rubber knife and a water gun.” (“That’s a real weapon,” Meyer said. “As far as the penis symbol is concerned, McMichael’s gun is just a detox.”)
”Cow. They all form a small group and write the same negative comments over and over again.”
”If he changes his style from time to time, he will become more interesting. He may be interesting and insightful, but he is negative.”
”Soon they will make us in suits and leather shoes. No matter which team shakes hands best, they are the winners of this game.
When he grew up and returned to Freer, Texas, the brightest lights were always on Friday night. That was the time for a high school football match.
McMichael recalled: “There, people lived and died.” The same goes for his family. His father EV is an oilfield land manager, and his mother Betty is an English teacher. His mother said that he is the second of four children, “a happy baby who wants to hug and laugh all the time.” When he started saying that he only wanted to play (he was only 7 or 8 years old at the time), his parents said it was great-as long as he kept his grades. They don’t want him to have a better future. (His brother Richard is now an electrical engineer in Houston. He is engaged in sports. Steve said: “He is a genius. He has brains and I have capabilities.”
When he formed the team, his folks were always by his side. He formed every team; in high school, he wrote letters in football, basketball, baseball, tennis, and track and field. He also plays golf. (“Mother dated from time to time,” his mother recalled, “but he was an all-round athlete, so exhausted that he couldn’t go out.”) When he was participating in an All-Star football game, his father rented a room. A bus, the family’s friends went to Houston to cheer for him.
He was accepted by 75 universities. In the end, he gave up the minor league baseball contract with the St. Louis Cardinals and played football for the University of Texas at Austin, becoming the first American boy in 20 years to win the United States in three ways: offensive, defensive and kicking. (Since then, no one in the state has matched him.)
When he graduated, he was drafted by the New England Patriots. After signing his first professional contract, he told his mother that he had bought her a new Cadillac-he told her that blue was her eyes. He couldn’t help feeling that this was just the beginning.
He said: “I was branded as a troublemaker.” “This is my old days. I am a wild boy who is always there. The Patriots were veterans on the defensive line at the time. I think they think I am not focused enough.”
The bear picked him up and settled down to work in his own way. “He is serious about football,” said striker Kevin Butler (Kevin Butler). “All the other players respect him because he has performed well in every game. He is very organized. Well, organized like a good boy.”
Retired Bear Gary Fencik added: “Steve and I joined the Bears after being waived by other teams. One time I saw the exit door-with you throughout your career. “
Physically, McMichael is not as big as other defensive balls in the league. He made up for it with firm determination and extensive weight training. (He can bench press 525 pounds.) In addition, his eyes and movements are also very powerful. Very good, because all he ever wanted to do was play ball. Getting out of the field and becoming a player, even hard work, all the blood of football and the pure pleasure of sweat and snot-for him, the excitement has never disappeared.
She used to be a tomboy. Back in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, she liked the tree house, beat her cousin Phillip, and slid around on a Honda QA 50 bike. “Then, I don’t know, I changed since high school,” Debra said.
Her father WJ Marshall works in a steel factory. Her mother, Ann, is a nurse. When they got married, Ann was 16 and WJ was 38. (“Oh, South,” Steve said.) Debra is the youngest and the weakest of their five children. She admits: “I liked to mix it up when I was very young.” (She still does. Recently, a woman found the McMichael family in a restaurant in the city center. “You are lucky to marry him.” The woman told Debra. “No, he was lucky to be with me,” Debra retorted. Debra said to her companion, and the stranger continued: “That girl had better cut it off, otherwise I will have to beat her.”
She attended the University of Alabama advertising program in Tuscaloosa. Then, she decided to visit some worlds, so she became an American Airlines flight attendant and moved to Chicago.
When Steve was a three-year veteran of the Bears, his mother and sister came to Chicago to watch him play. His mother recalled: “I never saw any woman during that visit. I said to him,’Where is your harem?’ He said, “Mom, I don’t think there is a decent woman there. I said, “She is there, but you won’t find her on the bar stool or in the pool hall.” “
Instead, when he took his family back to Texas by plane, he found her in O’Hare. He asked his sister to call the flight attendant, who weakened his knee. Before his sister could not do it, his mother did it.
He called her two days later. He already liked that she was from the south, she was beautiful and very lively. On the first date, he picked her up with a blue El-dorado and took her to Kelly Mondelli, where he set aside a picture next to the painting on the wall. A table. Six months later, they came to Las Vegas secretly and got married at Chapel of the Bells.
Since getting married, Debra has been working as a model in Texas and Chicago. (Steve’s favorite shot is to make her look like a sex kitten, Ann Margaret.) In 1987, she won the Lady Illinois pageant. In September of this year, she began a Monday morning quarterback training with Robert Murphy on WKQX, 101.1 FM.
Although she tends to spend a lot of time with her husband, in recent years, Debra has also worked for Chicago charities. This fall, she participated in the Easter Seal Festival. She participated in AAIM (Alliance for Drunk Motorists); she plans to raise funds for the pediatric ward of the University of Illinois Chicago Hospital.
She likes shopping (“Do you know how southern women shop?” Steve asked. “If you sell, you will get two”), jogging, painting and hanging out with girlfriends. The gilded members of the Kotex Mafia include Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of the former vice president, who was married to Keith Van Horn, an offensive tackle of Bellsney; Rebecca Besser’s husband Charlie owns InterSport, a sports goods production company. Cathy Butler considers Debra to be “one of the most interesting and loyal friends you might ask for.”
He said: “My best moment was in the Super Bowl, but my smartest move was to surrender to her.”
She said: “I don’t appreciate the Super Bowl enough. I just thought, isn’t this great? We will come back here every year.”
Walking into Neiman-Marcus, Mongo was distracted by the cosmetics counter. He held up a lipstick display tube and said in a false voice: “Oh, I think this is a good shade for me.” The salesperson showed no sign of approval. To them, he was just a man in a large robe wearing a white silk suit and a Kieselstein-Cord belt, and he wanted to put on his makeup. They let him.
Upstairs, he should try to order some new Go Silk clothes. But the clothes seem to be in transit. He flipped over the shelf. Nothing aroused his interest.
”What about this, baby?” Debra provided brightly colored, richly patterned shirts. “I want to see you here.”
”Yes, on Halloween.” That was it for him. “Come on,” he said to Debra, reaching out his hand, “I would rather find something for you.”
Back on the second floor, they stopped at the Chanel accessories store, and he picked a $350 bill for Debra. “Baby, you need this.” He paid first and then moved the shopping bag near the store.
McMichaels walked hand in hand to the Judith Leiber counter, where Steve fell in love with the evening bag studded with rhinestones. But Debra was not sure. They continued to put on their hats and went back to the Chanel counter, where Steve chose a pair of cat-eye sunglasses for Debra. Damage this time: $250. He said: “I like to spend money on babies.” He looked serious.
On the street, a nervous guy with a miniature TV on his wrist fell down beside McMichael. Although his eyes never seemed to leave the TV, the guy recognized McMichael. “I am a loyal fan,” he said, still focusing on his TV.
McMichael looked at his companion, raised his eyebrows, and said this silently. “The Jasons!!!”
Never looking away from Jason’s family, the guy quacked. “You are left.” McMichael was taken aback again. “They got rid of the clumsy QB and no longer need sweetness and deliciousness-”
McMichaels and Ditkas were both dressed beautifully-Debra in black, red and white harlequin leather jackets, Steve in brown Go Silk suit, coach and Diana in complementary shades of bronze and hunter green-but they had nowhere to go. Instead, they waited in this WBBM-TV green room for Johnny Morris, Channel 2 sports host and former Bear to arrive. Then, they will be able to record this week’s “Mike Ditka Show” (Mike Ditka Show).
This show is aired every Sunday at 11 am this season; it features Ditka and Morris discussing last week’s game, a member of the team (selected by Ditka), and avid studio fans. Do not confuse it with the “Morris-Ditka” Sunday sports program summary plan, which is a direct competitor of McMichael’s performance with Giangreco at 10:30 pm
The walls of this green room are actually green. They threw a creepy, turbulent actor on the faces around the room. Everyone seemed a little disturbed. Or they may be trapped in a fish tank.
Sometimes, these days, McMichael can’t help feeling that way. Everything is so spectacular. What is he? He wants to know. Roman gladiator or football player?
The ESPN crew is here, facing his camera again, which didn’t help. On the opposite side of the room, there is this reporter. “Oh, she went there and wrote things down,” he said, spinning the end of his hair with one hand and holding Debra’s with the other. “You made me nervous about that pen. You will try to make me look like some kind of nut because I’m spinning my hair.”
No one paid attention to him. Ladies are talking about fashion. Ditka is watching “Wheel of Fortune” on TV. He was chewing gum and staring fiercely at the screen, as if he had found the answer to world peace-or a crime to offend others.
”You know, I heard that Fan Na didn’t always pick out the clothes she wore in that show,” Diana Ditka nodded on the TV screen.
Now, Diana started joking with Steve. “Steve, you’d better read your language tonight. They will prepare a buzzer for you.”
As the “Wheel of Fortune” ended, Ditka stood a few times in the room. “Well, she persuaded me to watch the Coach show that night,” he said nothing. Just thinking about it, he shook his head and sneezed. “Boy, that’s stupid.”
When Morris finally arrived, everyone rushed to the studio. It was packed with avid Bears fanatics: people wore Bears sweatshirts, jackets and hats that looked like bears’ heads. Someone has a watch or a music box playing a small slow version of “Bear Down, Chicago Bears”. The energy level is illusory, as if the Super Bowl was just won by the bears in this room.
Ditka was only so far away not too long ago that he should have been to Mars, but suddenly he seemed easy to approach and was even amused by the scene. He said: “Now, ESPN is doing a special show with Steve to let the audience play,” so try to make your questions smarter. He paused. “So, you really won’t get any answers. “Everyone-including the coach himself-loses his temper.
The show begins and progresses as the movie clips, comments, and questions go on. Then it’s time for guests this week. When Morris introduced McMichael, the audience turned their heads. At this moment, he was the pride and joy of Illinois players, as the Bears’ theme song said.
When the applause faded away, McMichael sat in his seat and looked at Morris. “Can I buy a sponge for Johnny?” he said, pointing to Morris’ forehead. “He is sweating. Johnny, you don’t have to sweat profusely. I will be a good boy.”
Morris, with a dull expression, spread his arms horizontally and performed a general “cutting” movement. He looked at the photographer and the producer and said, “Start again.” The studio was full of chaos. “I don’t like that,” Morris said to McMichael harshly, like a teacher assigning tasks to children with problems. “I’m not joking; this is not a Giangreco performance.”
There was a wave of “oh” in the audience. For a moment, it’s hard to tell where their sympathy (or Ditka’s sympathy) is. “Well, you are sweating,” Ditka said with a shrug.
The part started again, this time, when McMichael was introduced, the audience entered the core state. They support this bad boy. When the screaming and clapping finally disappeared, McMichael said: “Johnny, I think these people like me.”
After a period of time, the program continued without incident. Then, a new market segment began, and Morris asked McMichael: “Do you like playing more now than you did a few years ago?”
”Oh, of course,” he replied. “I know what I am doing now. You are young, stupid, and enterprising—”
After a few seconds, pandemonium will loosen. Morris waved his arms violently and stopped the performance. Dietka was laughing. McMichael pretended to be innocent with his palm facing up. “Is that wrong?” he said. “Start over,” Morris said.
When the part started again, Morris skipped anything to ask McMichael directly. In fact, in the next show, he will not talk to McMichael. Instead, he threw the interview to the audience. Therefore, it continued to the end.
Then, in the corridor of WBBM-TV, McMichael and Morris crossed the trail for the last time. Morris stretched out his hand. Skip a few beats until McMichael shook his head. “Sorry, I can’t use some of them,” Morris said.
”Now, why should I be sad?” He asked, his voice just enough to carry it. “He is just an old football player.”
”You know, Johnny Morris couldn’t meet my needs last year,” Steve said. This is the next night, in McMichael’s house, braving the Morris incident, and regrouping with a bag of baked potato chips. “When I stretched out my hand in training camp? He called me at home and asked me to give him a spoon.”
In the summer of 1989 and 1990, McMichael delayed reporting to the bear market. He is trying to renegotiate his contract through Texas agent Larry Bales, but the contract has never worked.
Persistence was only partially successful and gave him a salary increase. Although McMichael declined to be named (he would only say “more than less, less than others”), industry insiders believe that his salary from the bear market is $600,000. (Plus about $50,000 from WMAQ.) Although the salary of NFL defensive tackles can never be compared with the salary of high quarterbacks and guards, it is not particularly amazing salary, especially for McMichael (McMichael) In terms of size and consistency.
”I don’t think anyone in the league has enough money to do what we do. For the pleasure of others, this may cause permanent damage to your body. I don’t know. I don’t want to be everyone, because If I feel guilty when I deposit all this money in the bank, that guy will commit suicide there.”
He had a broken rib (sewn a seat belt), sprained ankle, overextension of elbow, arm bleeding, blood dripping and pants on his trouser leg. He has had six knee surgeries, but he has never missed a fall. But he knew he could not go on forever.
He made good investments (including Scholz Garden, a bar opened in Austin by him and his agent); he knew that after playing football, he didn’t have to work to make a living. He was thinking, maybe it’s time that he will join the World Wrestling Federation. honestly. He said: “William Perry and I, we will get the landmark team into trouble.” His only certainty is that life in the real world (that is, life outside of football) frightens him.
”Because most people are not worth your time. They backstab, throw things, and live in slime in a glass house.”
That’s the person outside. Inside, there are his friends (Butler, Perry, Finch, actor Jim Belushi), his wife, and three dogs and three cats lying in bed every night.
McMichael and Butler walked through the front door, threw a few hellos, and then opened the corkscrew on the spiral staircase. After a while, the curved stereo sound and the sound of pool balls floated upstairs.
This is the second day after the team’s first Monday night game of the season; to everyone’s surprise, including their own, the Bears defeated the New York Jets in overtime. The road to victory started at the last minute and a half, when McMichael snatched the ball from Jet’s guard Blair Thomas and fell down there. After a two-minute warning, this is the third time McMike has played online in this four-week-old season.
So he is very tired today. When Debra said that the WMAQ-TV film crew would conduct a live interview at 5 pm, he was a little cranky. “Boy, you are throwing me into the press, aren’t you?” he said.
However, he has something he wants to show me. This is the latest Steve McMichael bubble gum card. On the front is a full-length photo of him in action, with his name and number 76 on the top; on the back, the card is divided into two, with McMichael creature on one side and a close-up photo on the other. Isn’t that a photo of the former Bear’s tackle Dan Hampton?
The TV was turned on; he and Butler started watching the news at 4:30. The main story is about the victory of the Bears. In fact, most news broadcasts are about the game. He and Butler glanced at each other. For them, this is news, and they are the headlines elsewhere in the city.
Reports on TV also kept popping up: street reviews about games; reactions from people in restaurants; a nun insisted that God is a fan of bears. Moreover, replaying those last heart-pounding moments over and over again always starts with McMichael’s major actions.
Gradually, when he looked at all of this, the slightest change appeared on McMichael’s face. He has been talking about us and them internally and externally. But now he looked like a man, seeing something new and distant. Although he didn’t care very much, he still saw it. He said, “This is really a big deal, isn’t it?”
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Post time: May-11-2021