Thirty years after driving a dynasty-destined football team to one Super Bowl, “Da Coach”—a champion of chest-thumping red-meat rhetoric and laughable pretzel logic—continues to prove that his replaced hip bone must have been broken off from his brain stem through his appearances on ESPN-AM 1000. When addressing 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protesting of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” the cigar-sucking commentator blustered, “If they don’t like the country, they don’t like our flag?get the hell out, that’s what I think.” Ditka thinks? Who knew?
