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I thought I would weigh in on the passing of another great legend, Dick Butkus.
Dick and I grew up just a few miles from each other on the Southeast side of Chicago, near the old steel mills. We went to neighboring high schools, he to Chicago Vocational School and me to Bowen High School. The two schools were rivals in everything they did, except football. CVS was so good that its team played in