Commemorating Virginia McCaskey with Dan Pompei

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Dan Pompei joins Jahns after the Chicago Bears announce that matriarch Virginia McCaskey has passed away at the age of 102.Full Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZMostXhf0pg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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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