The Chicago Bears are playing their season opener Monday, and their jerseys will have a special patch featured prominently on their chests.
The orange football-shaped patch contains the initials “VMH” on it, and will be worn on their jerseys through the entire 2025 season.
Bears fans will recall that long-time owner of the team Virginia McCaskey passed away earlier this year at the age of 102, and the patch pays homage to her full name of Virginia Halas McCaskey, with the “M” emboldened and in the center of the patch.
Some Bears fans may be confused as to why the “M” in the name is in the center, but according to Southern Living and other publications, the “VMH” is actually the proper way to display initials on a monogram, paying homage to the late McCaskey after her death earlier this year.
Known affectionately as the matriarch of the NFL, McCaskey was the longest-tenured NFL owner, having served as the owner of the Bears since her father and team founder, George S. Halas, passed away on Oct. 31, 1983.
McCaskey was born in 1923 in Chicago to parents Min and George Halas. She was the oldest of the couple’s two children, both of whom were raised in the premiere football family.
George Halas founded the Bears and the NFL and served as a player and coach, while owning the Bears from the team’s inception to his death in 1983.
“After the passing of her father, Mrs. McCaskey found herself as the principal owner of the Chicago Bears franchise,” the Bears said in a release. “She never sought the spotlight. She understood the importance of emphasizing to family members how important the legacy of the franchise was, not in terms of money or value, but in terms of what the team meant to people in Chicago and beyond.”
McCaskey has been the principal owner ever since, although her son Michael took over as team chairman in 1999, then another son, George, took the helm in 2011.
She was survived by her sons Patrick, Edward Jr., George, Richard, Brian and Joseph, as well as daughters Ellen, Mary and Ann. She also has 21 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
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