It’s no secret Iron Mike Ditka has a reputation for being hot headed and sometimes kind of drunk, but there’s always room for more proof.
Sports blog Deadspin called out to their readers Thursday for their best encounters with “Da Coach,” and the results did not dissapoint. The call out came after Conan O’Brien-side kick Andy Richter took to Twitter to tell his own story about Ditka, which featured the former Bears coach almost starting a fire after casually leaving his lit cigar on the passenger seat of a car.
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Here’s some highlights of the reader stories:
“He reeked of Jim Beam and Slim Jims, and half an hour in decides he needs a break from signing autographs for the 11 people there, to drop sticks. Seventeen minutes later he’s back and a waft of shit immediately filled the room, evidently he flushed and didn’t stick around to realize it had overflowed under the door.” — Commenter who said he met Ditka at a cigar store autograph signing.
“It was his first visit back since being kicked out for throwing a lit cigar at a dealer.” — Commenter who said he played blackjack next to Mike in 2001.
“Mike Ditka hit on my mom shortly after completely blowing me off earlier in the day.” — Commenter who couldn’t get Da Coaches attention.
“Saw commotion and a small crowd in back and saw Ditka and a buddy playing craps and smoking big stogies in a roped off area. They were accompanied by 2 very very youthful girls who were screeching things like ‘oh mike’ whenever he was throwing dice.” — Commenter with another csasino story.
There’s plenty more in both the story and the comments, so really, you should check them all out. There’s even a few that don’t make Ditka sound ALL bad.
We still love you, we guess, Mike.
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