Mike Ditka

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(Aliquippa, Pennsylvania) | college = Pittsburgh (1958–1960) | draftyear = 1961 | draftround = 1 | draftpick = 5 | afldraftyear = 1961 | afldraftround = 1 | afldraftpick = 8 | pastteams = * Chicago Bears () * Philadelphia Eagles () * Dallas Cowboys () | pastcoaching = * Dallas Cowboys ()
Assistant head coach & special teams coordinator * Chicago Bears ()
Head coach * New Orleans Saints ()
Head coach | highlights = ; As a player * Super Bowl champion (VI) * NFL champion (1963) * NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1961) * 2× First-team All-Pro (1963, 1964) * 3× Second-team All-Pro (1962, 1965–1966) * 5× Pro Bowl (1961–1965) * NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team * NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team * Chicago Bears No. 89 retired * 100 greatest Bears of All-Time * Unanimous All-American (1960) * 2× First-team All-Eastern (1959, 1960) * Pittsburgh Panthers No. 89 retired ; As a coach * 2× Super Bowl champion (XII, XX) * 2× AP NFL Coach of the Year (1985, 1988) | statlabel1 = Receptions | statvalue1 = 427 | statlabel2 = Receiving yards | statvalue2 = 5,812 | statlabel3 = Receiving touchdowns | statvalue3 = 43 | regular_record = | playoff_record = | overall_record = | pfr = DitkMi00 | pfrcoach = DitkMi0 | HOF = mike-ditka | CollegeHOF = 1795 }}

Michael Keller Ditka ( ; born Michael Dyczko; October 18, 1939) is an American former professional football player, coach, and television commentator. During his playing career, he was UPI NFL Rookie of Year in 1961, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, and a six-time All-Pro tight end with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL); he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988. Ditka was the first tight end in NFL history to reach 1,000 yards receiving in his rookie season.

He was an NFL champion with the 1963 Bears and is a three-time Super Bowl champion, playing on the Cowboys' Super Bowl VI team, winning as an assistant coach for the Cowboys in Super Bowl XII, and coaching the Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX. He has been named to the NFL's 75th- and 100th-Anniversary All-Time Teams.

As a head coach for the Bears from 1982 to 1992, he was twice both the AP and UPI NFL Coach of Year (1985 and 1988). He also was the head coach of the New Orleans Saints from 1997 to 1999.

Ditka and Tom Flores are the only people to win a Super Bowl as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka, Flores, Gary Kubiak, and Doug Pederson are also the only people in modern NFL history to win a championship as head coach of a team for which they played previously. Ditka is the only person to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' league championships, as a player in 1963 and as head coach in 1985.

In 2020, Ditka became the owner of the X League, a women's tackle football league that was originally the Lingerie Football League.

He is known by the nickname "Iron Mike", which he has said comes from his being born and raised in a steel town in Pennsylvania. Provided by Wikipedia