Dick Butkus Was a Creature of Old, Tough Chicago – Wall Street Journal
“If Dick Butkus hadn’t been born in Chicago, someone would have had to make him up….The funny thing is that off the football field Butkus was a very nice man: whimsically sardonic, self-aware, quite at peace with the idea that others looked at him and in their secret hearts saw what, if caught in a tight spot, they wished they could be.”