George Wendt adeptly played the role of a deluded Chicago sports fan who always believed in his teams, despite evidence to ...

Zoom out: Wendt fondly remembered his Chicago years, telling the Tribune in 1990 about the freedom of growing up in Beverly. "We could just jump on the Western Avenue bus and eventually be at ...

The "Norm!" greeting on "Cheers" and George Wendt's jokes that followed helped make the show the success it was. TODAY.com ...

Fans mourned the passing of Wendt, who led a gregarious band of Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks superfans on the show featuring ...

George Wendt, an actor and Chicago-native with an Everyman charm who played Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art ...

The “Cheers” star graduated from Rockhurst University after getting kicked out of Notre Dame and has family in Kansas City.

Outside of the Super Bowl, it's the sixth most watched broadcast in US history. Due to the memorable nature of the episode fans were stunned to learn that Wendt’s death coincided with the ...

Many forget that the image of the meatball Chicago sports fan was panned by some cultural elitists at the time. Former Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin wrote in 1992 that “the ...

“Cheers” star George Wendt, who died May 20 at the age of 76, left behind a legacy in the annals of ... Night Live” in the popular “Super Fans” sketches, which wrought the phrase ...

On Tuesday, the sports and entertainment worlds received news of the passing of former Chicago Bears "super fan" George Wendt, who played the iconic comedic role on the "Saturday Night Live" show ...