Commemorating Virginia McCaskey with Dan Pompei
Hoge & Jahns: a show about the Chicago Bears
Hoge & Jahns
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From CHGO, it's Adam Hogue. |
| 0:06.3 | And from the athletic, it's Adam Johns. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, what's up? |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome in Hogan Johns, back with you again. |
| 0:15.0 | This time, I am joined by the one and only Dan Pompeii. |
| 0:19.4 | We're here to discuss the passing of Virginia McCasky. |
| 0:24.1 | She passed away today, Thursday, February 6th at 102 years old. |
| 0:30.8 | Dan wrote a beautiful obituary for us on The Athletic. |
| 0:34.6 | Please check that out on the athletic.com. |
| 0:39.7 | Dan, thank you for joining the show. |
| 0:49.4 | I guess let's begin with this, with Virginia. What's the best way to encapsulate everything she meant to the Chicago Bears organization? Well, I think it's hard to do that, Adam. |
| 0:55.5 | You know, people say what was her contribution to the team or what was her, you know, |
| 1:02.2 | footprint on the league. |
| 1:04.7 | And, you know, the way I would answer that is I think the NFL, as we all know, |
| 1:09.5 | is a league that kind of is devoid of humanity. |
| 1:14.3 | And she provided humanity. |
| 1:16.8 | She was, I think, a great example of how to live a life, how to comport yourself, how to deal |
| 1:24.4 | with people, how to set your priorities. |
| 1:27.7 | And, you know, in the NFL, I think that's something that really has kind of gotten lost, |
| 1:34.9 | especially as the league has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. |
| 1:39.0 | You know, she, I remember talking to her once, she hated the phrase, next man up because she felt like it was so |
| 1:48.4 | cold and calloused and it didn't really talk about the human being. She was all about the human |
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