HOMER GLEN, Ill. — The McDonald’s billboard down the street offered congratulations. Television crews and some enthusiastic fans waited outside the house in the quiet subdivision. Security guards stood in the doorway.
Inside was a man on a hospital bed wearing a gold jacket, with many of the people who love him most.
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It is reasonable to conclude Steve McMichael never should have been here.
He never should have been a Chicago Bear. He was supposed to be a New England Patriot. They chose him in the third round of the 1980 NFL Draft but cut him the following year.
He was not supposed to keep going and going, becoming legendary partly by
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