Mike Ditka: 'I intended the right thing. It just came out wrong'
by Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune
Oct 11, 2017
3 minutes
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Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, criticized after telling a radio interviewer earlier this week that "there has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of," said Wednesday that he misspoke.
"The term I used was inappropriate," Ditka said. "A hundred years is silly I didn't mean it that way, but it came out that way. I don't really have a lot to say on the issue anymore because no matter what I say, I'm going to be wrong, regardless, so
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