HE OWES US ONE:

Mike Ditka for Senate, again (Salena Zito, January 6, 2009, Pittsburgh Tribune)

Mike Ditka has been a lot of things in life, including that man that could have possibly beaten then Illinois state senator Barack Obama when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2004. Instead Ditka chose not to run because of business obligations, Alan Keyes did the honors and we all know how that turned out. [...]

A site is now up, running, and dedicated to ‘drafting” Mike Ditka to the United States Senate.

Here is the online petition to "draft Mike Ditka."