Bryant Keith Ortego (August 30, 1963 – March 2, 2022) was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
wide receiver for the
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...
of the
NFL. He was a member of the
Bears team that won
Super Bowl XX
Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for ...
following the
1985 NFL season
The 1985 NFL season was the 66th regular season of the National Football League. The season ended with Super Bowl XX when the Chicago Bears defeated the New England Patriots 46–10 at the Louisiana Superdome. The Bears became the second team ...
.
[ He was also a member of the "Shuffling Crew" in the video The Super Bowl Shuffle.
Ortego attended ]McNeese State University
McNeese State University is a public university in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, it was renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese, an early local educator. The present name was adopted in 1970. ...
.[Keith Ortego]
pro-football-reference.com He died on March 2, 2022, at the age of 58.
chicagobears.com
References
1963 births
2022 deaths
American football wide receivers
McNeese State Cowboys football players
Chicago Bears players
People from Eunice, Louisiana
Players of American football from Louisiana
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