Happy 86th Birthday, "Iron Mike"! Mike Ditka Highlights from the #Bears' 1963 NFL Championship season — the legendary tight end's first as an AP First-Team All-Pro #DaBears

Heaven Birthday, Keith Jackson🕯️ "The Voice of College Football" Born 97 years ago today

October 18, 1970 The #Vikings vanquish the #Cowboys at The Met, 54-13. The Purple People Eaters block a punt for a score, register seven sacks, and intercept four passes — including a pick-six. #Skol The 54 points remain the most points ever surrendered by Dallas in a single

Ditka '85 An NFL Films short on the legendary "Iron Mike" from #DaBears' magical 1985 Super Bowl season Featuring anecdotes from former Cowboys teammate Dan Reeves and #Bears players Gary Fencik and Jimbo Covert

Happy 88th Birthday, Boyd Dowler! #Packers Legend. Gamer. Here are Boyd's five postseason touchdowns, including two in the iconic 1967 "Ice Bowl" NFL Championship, and his 62-yarder from Bart Starr in Super Bowl II — #GoPackGo's longest postseason play of the Lombardi Era.

October 18, 1977 "Mr. October" #Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson blasts three consecutive home runs on three pitches to close out the Dodgers in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

#USC at #NotreDame October 24, 1987 CBS Sports' open to "one of the most celebrated rivalries in college football". Brent Musburger and #GoIrish legend Ara Parseghian welcome us to slate-grey South Bend, where several #FightOn and Irish alums reflect upon the rivalry's history.

(#9) #USC at (#1) #NotreDame October 21, 1989 CBS Sports' open featuring Jim Nantz, who welcomes us to South Bend for the renewal of a rivalry that "has never been ugly or vicious, only noble". Which is immediately contrasted with scenes of a pregame brawl between the teams

#Alabama. #Tennessee. Keith Jackson. "The Third Saturday in October"

Happy 86th Birthday, Mike Ditka! #Bears Legend Classic "Iron Mike" from his coaching days with #DaBears and #Saints

Happy Birthday Boyd Dowler Starr to Dowler 62 yard touchdown Super Bowl II #Packers #GoPackGo

Mike Ditka's Super Bowl Touchdown Ditka hauls in a 7-yarder from Roger Staubach to salt away the #DallasCowboys' first Super Bowl championship — Super Bowl VI. Happy Birthday, Iron Mike!

Heaven Birthday, George Wendt🕯️ Chicago #Bears Superfan, Bob Swerski #DaBears

October 18, 1971 Happy 54th Birthday to the touchdown dance! #Chiefs rookie Elmo Wright gets down in front of a national television audience on Monday Night Football. The first official touchdown celebration "dance" in #NFL history

Happy Birthday Mike Ditka A fan called Ditka a 👶 on a call in radio show. Iron Mike responds by giving the guy his office address and telling him “You tell me what time and when and I’ll whip your ass” #DaBears    #CoachDitkaThread

Perhaps my favorite NFL photo #Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw — commanding the huddle with his team backed up against the Chiefs' Redwood Forest defense October 18, 1971

October 18, 1970 #Dolphins fullback Larry Csonka bludgeons Bills safety Pete Richardson in Buffalo. Zonk and Coach Shula recount the NFL's first and perhaps only instance of "unnecessary roughness" by a ball carrier. #PhinsUp

The ivy-adorned walls of Chicago's Wrigley Field #Bears and Colts October 18, 1959

October 18, 1981 Joe Delaney ices a #Chiefs win over Denver with an 82-yard fourth-quarter touchdown at Arrowhead. The longest run of his meteoric NFL career RIP Hero🕯️

Happy 86th Birthday, Mike Ditka! #Bears Legend Classic "Iron Mike" from his coaching days with #DaBears and #Saints