CHICAGO - Steve McMichael, the charismatic former Chicago Bears Super Bowl champion defensive lineman and ex-WCW professional wrestler, revealed in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that doctors diagnosed him with ALS three months ago.
"I promise you, this epitaph that I'm going to have on me now? This ain't ever how I envisioned this was going to end," McMichael told the paper.
Nicknamed 'Mongo' in tribute to Alex Karras' character in Mel Brooks 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles, McMichael, 63, is mostly confined to a specialized wheelchair - that Bears ownership volunteered to pay for - after the disease robbed him of the use of the majority of his limbs.