Steve McMichael, Chicago Bears Great, Dies at 67 After Battle with ALS

Steve McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Chicago Bears' famed 1985 Super Bowl championship team, has died following a battle with ALS. He was 67.

McMichael, who played in a franchise-record 191 consecutive games from 1981 to 1993 and ranks second to Richard Dent on the Bears' career sacks list with 92 1/2, died Wednesday afternoon, his publicist, Betsy Shepherd, told The Associated Press.

An All-Pro in 1985 and 1987, McMichael was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2024. He played for the Bears from 1981 to 1993 before finishing his NFL career with Green Bay in 1994.

McMichael's larger-than-life personality made him a fixture in the Windy City for decades, and he was also a natural for professional wrestling, spending five years in the late 1990s working for World Championship Wrestling. He began as a color commentator and later joined Ric Flair in the "Four Horsemen" group.

McMichael revealed his ALS diagnosis in April 2021, saying, “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.”