Member of Bears Super Bowl Championship Team Reportedly Arrested for Murder

Dec 31, 2020

An awful story out of Arizona, where Michael Richardson, an All-Pro cornerback in 1986 and a member of the Super Bowl winner in 1985, has reportedly been arrested for murder.

Richardson, 59, was taken into custody after the Tuesday shooting death of 47-year-old Ronald Lee:

Michael Richardson, a member of the legendary 1985 Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears is facing murder charges in Arizona, sources tell ABC affiliate KNXV-TV. https://t.co/dex7rR7G0g
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) December 31, 2020

Richardson played for the Bears from 1983 to 1988, before finishing his career with a season in San Francisco in 1989. The Orange County Register in 2008 wrote about Richardson’s “slow, long fall” since then, chronicling troubles and arrests for a guy who’d become known nationally as “L.A. Mike” in the Super Bowl Shuffle video.

More details as they become available. Thoughts go out to the victim’s family and friends, and anyone else impacted by his death.

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Brett Taylor

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