Chicago Bears matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey, who died in February, was not the first woman to become principal owner of an NFL team. Yet the woman who was lived nearby.

George “Mugs” Halas Jr. Mugs’ death triggered a feud between the McCaskey and Halas factions that rivaled the Hatfields and McCoys. When Mugs’ children tried to sell their shares to Neil ...

George "Mugs" Halas Jr, Virginia’s younger brother was initially supposed to inherit the team as George Halas had passed the team presidency to him in 1963. However, Mugs died suddenly of a ...

“I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival would be George Stanley Halas Jr.,” the founder and owner of the Bears admitted in the 1979 book, ...

Here are eight things to know about her. 1. Virginia McCaskey’s parents were surprised their firstborn was a girl. “I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival ...

Her brother, George “Mugs” Halas Jr., was being groomed to take over the team, but died suddenly of a heart attack in 1979.McCaskey assumed ownership upon her father’s death in 1983 ...