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Fantastic person by montroy28

George Connor was a great man. He could tell some great stories, and that's not something that was unique within his own family. Jack, his younger brother was a hell of a storyteller and also played football and basketball at Notre Dame. He authored Leahy's Lads.

One of the things I'm glad to see in the write-up was about how there was a desire to play for the Cardinals. His family were not exactly Bears fans before he played there. In fact even afterwards some of the family that married in claim to have gone on to be Packers fans once the Cardinals left town.

When George was first starting out with the Bears, he was living with his parents. His mother Esther was charged with helping raise George's much younger cousins due to their busy parents' long hours. Those cousins would often complain that their big cousin was stealing their bacon. He indeed was, he had NFL types to fight off. Esther would eventually pitch in as a babysitter for those younger cousins' kids in the 70's.

As an aside there were a lot of medical types in the family. For instance, George's uncle was Dr. John L. Keeley, a surgeon out of Loyola in Chicago. One time, Dr. Keeley was flown to Rome for an emergency amputation of Cardinal Stritch's arm. As family lore has it he was also tasked with chaperoning the arm back to the US on ice.

Dr. Keeley was my grandfather, and my dad was one of the unlucky bacon-deprived cousins.