🏈 Autographed/Signed Dick Butkus Chicago Blue Football Jersey JSA COA – The Authenticated In-Person Signature of Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears Middle Linebacker, Eight-Time Pro Bowl Selection, Eight-Time First-Team All-Pro, and Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee (Class of 1979)

🏈 Dick Butkus was born on December 9, 1942, on the South Side of Chicago – and he played his entire NFL career for the city he grew up in. He came out of the University of Illinois as the most complete linebacker prospect in college football, and the Bears drafted him with the third overall pick in the 1965 AFL/NFL Combined Draft. What followed was nine seasons of the kind of middle linebacker play that became the standard by which future players at the position were measured. Butkus was physically imposing at 6'3” and 245 pounds, but the attribute that separated him from his contemporaries was something that statisticians have always struggled to quantify: he played with a ferocity and competitive intelligence that changed the way opposing offenses approached their game plans before the first snap of every week.

🏈 He was selected to eight Pro Bowls, earned eight First-Team All-Pro designations in nine seasons, and was named to both the NFL's 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams – the ballot that the league reserved for the players who defined the game across its entire history. The Dick Butkus Award, given annually to the best linebacker in college football, carries his name because the position he defined in the 1960s and early 1970s became inseparable from the image of what a great linebacker looks like. When football historians rank the most dominant defensive players in NFL history, the conversation rarely goes long before Dick Butkus' name comes up. A Chicago Bears blue jersey signed in his hand is a physical piece of that history. Authenticated by James Spence Authentication (JSA) with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA). Condition: NOS.

🏈 Dick Butkus. Chicago, Illinois. University of Illinois. Chicago Bears. Middle Linebacker. 1965–1973. 8x Pro Bowl. 8x First-Team All-Pro. Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 1979. Autographed Blue Jersey. JSA COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.