Bears great Steve McMichael expected to return home from hospital on Thursday
CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Bears great Steve McMichael, who is battling ALS, is expected D.J. Humphries Jersey to return home Thursday after being hospitalized the past week, longtime publicist Betsy Shepherd said.The 66-year-old McMichael went public with an ALS diagnosis three years ago. He was at a suburban hospital last Thursday a Josh Doctson Jersey week after being voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with a urinary tract infection.The family announced Saturday he had developed MRSA, a staph infection that can be difficult to treat because it is resistant to certain antibiotics, and was undergoing a blood transfusion.McMichael, who controlled the interior of the Markus Golden Jersey line for the Bears famed 46 defense, was an All-Pro during the 1985 Super Bowl championship season and in 1987. He played in a franchise-record 191 consecutive games from 1981-1993 and ranks second to Hall of Famer Richard Dent on the Bears all-time sacks list with 92 1/2. His final season was with Green Bay in 1994.ADVERTISEMENT Whether he was terrorizing opponents or discu sing the Bears on Larry Fitzgerald Jersey sports talk radio, the man known as Ming The Mercile s and Mongo after the character in Blazing Saddles who knocked out a horse, remained a prominent presence in Chicago long after his playing days ended. He also spent five years in profe sional wrestling in the late Aeneas Williams Jersey 1990s. ___AP NFL:
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