{"id":365485,"date":"2026-10-09T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/mike-ditka-legendary-nfl-player-and-coach-dies-at-86"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:36:18","slug":"mike-ditka-legendary-nfl-player-and-coach-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/mike-ditka-legendary-nfl-player-and-coach-dies-at-86","title":{"rendered":"Mike Ditka, legendary NFL participant and coach, dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Mike Ditka, the NFL Hall of Famer who coached the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl victory, has died, his family announced. He was 86.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka,&#8221; a family statement said. &#8220;While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears&#8217; Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The statement added, &#8220;Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Sports\/mike-ditka-legendary-nfl-player-coach-dies-86\/story?id=116247659\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ditka, the NFL Hall of Famer who coached the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl victory, has died, his family announced. He was 86. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35727,40411,406,40413,40412,1318,1317,11188,267],"class_list":["post-365485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-american-football","tag-chicago-bears","tag-coach","tag-legendary-coach-and-chief","tag-mike-ditka","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl","tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame-inductees","tag-the-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365487,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365485\/revisions\/365487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}