Olivia Babine March 9, 2016 at 1:32pm

He will probably support Donald Trump.

Mike Ditka, a former NFL player and coach of the Chicago Bears, is being replaced on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown supposedly for remarks he made on air recently about President Obama. It was reported by the Big Lead that he will be replaced by Matt Hasselbeck.

Ditka has worked for the network since 2004 after previously working for CBS and NBC. The former Super Bowl champion coach will have a new but unspecified emeritus-type role at the network in the future, says a source.

Matt Hasselbeck spent the previous three football seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. In 2005, he led the Seattle Seahawks to the Super Bowl. Since 2008 he has worked as a studio analyst for the ESPN. He will also appear on Monday Night Countdown and is expected to contribute to other ESPN shows and platforms.

A few days ago, Ditka stated that he believes the president is a great guy to play golf with, but that, “He’s not a leader. This country needs leadership. It needs direction. It needs somebody that steps up front.” Furthermore, “We need somebody like Ronald Reagan.

Everyone once in a while you’re gonna get punched in the chops but you keep going forward. There’s all there is to it.”

Ditka once described himself as ‘ultra-ultra conservative’ and admitted that he will most probably support Donald Trump in the next election.

“The people that hate him, hate him, but people like him because he says things that resonate with what they think, if I were to vote tomorrow, I’d probably vote for Trump,” he said on the WABC show.

On the Bernie & Sid Show this past week, he asserted that President Obama is “not a leader” and that, “Obama is the worst president we’ve ever had.”

ESPN has failed to comment regarding whether there is a connection between Ditka’s controversial political comments and his demotion, but that hasn’t stopped rampant speculation such is the case.

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