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Michael Keller Ditka (born Michael Dyczko; October 18, 1939) is a former American football player, coach, and television commentator. A member of both the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame, he was the 1961 ''UPI'' NFL Rookie of Year, a five-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time All-Pro tight end with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys. He was an NFL champion with the 1963 Bears, and is a three-time Super Bowl champion, playing on the Cowboys VI team as well as coaching the XII winning team, and coaching the Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX. He was named to both the NFL's 50th and 75th Anniversary All-Time Team As a coach for the Bears for 11 years he was twice both the ''AP'' and ''UPI'' NFL Coach of Year (1985 and 1988). He also coached the New Orleans Saints for three years. He and Tom Flores are the only two people to win an NFL title as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka is also the only individual in modern NFL history to win a championship with the same team as a player and as a head coach. Ditka was the only person to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' championships, as a player in 1963 and as head coach in 1985. He is known by the nickname "Iron Mike", which he has said comes from his being born and raised in a steel town in Pennsylvania. == Early life== Ditka was born as Michael Dyczko in the Pittsburgh-area town of Carnegie, Pennsylvania on 18 October 1939. The oldest child of Charlotte (Keller) and Mike Ditka, Sr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Mike Ditka: Aliquippa resident, father of Saints coach )〕 he grew up in nearby Aliquippa with siblings Ashton, David, and Mary Ann. His father, a welder, was one of three brothers of a Polish and Ukrainian〔 Quote from article: "Mike's childhood name was Mike Dyzcko. His father was one of three brothers of a Ukrainian family in the coal mining and steel manufacturing area in Western Pennsylvania"〕 family in the coal mining and steel manufacturing area in Western Pennsylvania. His ancestry on his mother's side is Irish and German. The Polish surname "Dyczko" was difficult to pronounce in his hometown, so the family name was changed to "Ditka."〔 Ditka attended St. Titus School. Under head coach Press Maravich, Ditka was a three-sport star at Aliquippa High School. Ditka hoped to escape his hometown's manufacturing jobs by attending college with a football scholarship. Planning to become a dentist, he was recruited by Notre Dame, Penn State, and University of Pittsburgh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Ditka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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