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Bears to honor matriarch Virginia McCaskey with tribute patch

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The Bears’ 2025 uniforms will honor late matriarch Virginia McCaskey in two different ways this season.

The first is a special tribute evoking the way the Bears mourned the loss of her father, founder George S. Halas, upon his death in 1983. The second tribute is, by design, nothing special at all.

Bears chairman George McCaskey told the Sun-Times that, starting with next week’s preseason opener, the Bears will wear a football-shaped patch with Virginia McCaskey’s initials inside for every game this year. The patch will be placed on player’s jerseys above their hearts.