<P> In the 1971 made - for - television film Brian's Song, about the friendship between Chicago Bears players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, Halas was portrayed by Jack Warden, who won an Emmy Award for his performance . </P> <P> Halas died of pancreatic cancer in Chicago on October 31, 1983, at age 88, and is entombed in St. Adalbert Catholic Cemetery in Niles, Illinois . At the time of his death, he was the last surviving participant of the meeting that formed the NFL in 1920 . </P> <P> His eldest daughter, Virginia Halas McCaskey, succeeded him as majority owner, and her son Michael McCaskey served as team president from 1983--1999 at which time the elder McCaskey was forced to fire her own son . In the 1985 season when the Bears won their only Super Bowl, they recorded a song called "Super Bowl Shuffle ." In the song, backup quarterback Steve Fuller rhymes "Bring on Atlanta, Bring on Dallas / This is for Mike (then - current coach Mike Ditka) and Papa Bear Halas ." </P> <P> Super Bowl XVIII was dedicated to Halas . The pregame ceremonies featured a moment of silence and the ceremonial coin toss by former Chicago Bear Bronko Nagurski . The missing - man formation over Tampa Stadium at the conclusion of Barry Manilow's performance of the National Anthem, as performed by airplanes from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, was also presented in tribute to Halas . </P>

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