She was born into a football life and only took over an NFL franchise out of duty to family. She was an accidental owner, a ...

Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus ...

Virginia McCaskey inherited the team from her father in the 1980s, and managed to run the team largely out of the public eye.

I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival would be George Stanley Halas Jr.,” the founder and owner of the Bears admitted in the 1979 book, “Halas by Halas: The ...