Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 27, 2020
Bears coaches not wary about returning, vow to take coronavirus precautions
Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano coaches against the Giants in November.Clancy Barone’s mom had six-hour brain surgery the night before the Bears played his Vikings in the 2018 season finale. He cared for the 83-year-old throughout 2019, the first time since he entered the NFL in 2004 that he didn’t have a full-time coaching job.
He went to California and helped her recover. About three months after surgery, she had a request.
“She wanted me to take her to the local casino,” Barone, who was hired in January as the Bears’ tight ends coach, said last week. “I knew then that Mom was better.
