Dan Doornink died on October 31, the day leaving 61 days in the year, in the year of Super Bowl 61, two days before the Seattle Seahawks, his former team, host the Chicago Bears, who lost Mike Ditka earlier in the month, on October 9, 2026 (Dan Doornink=61, Mike Ditka=61).

Notice that Dan Doornink’s last season was the ’85-’86 season, the year Mike Ditka won Super Bowl 20 as the head coach of the Chicago Bears.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DoorDa00.htm

Notice he wore #33, and died before the MNF game (MNF=33).

Notice he stared in 46 games, going with the Bears winning Super Bowl 20, 46-10, with the revolutionary 4-6 Defense (Chicago=46).

Also, notice he played in 104 regular-season games because MNF is on November 2, 2026, 104 days before Super Bowl 61. That also means he died 106 days before the Super Bowl, and the Seahawks won the 106th NFL season (also, their last game was the 106th game of this season, where they gave the Chiefs their first loss, in the “Chief Seattle Bowl.” Keep in mind that Dan was a Yakima native, tying in with the Seahawks having won Super Bowl 60 (Yakima=60, Washington State=60).

The last time the Super Bowl was in the stadium in Inglewood (SoFi), Cooper Kupp was the MVP, also from Yakima, like Dan Doornink.

That was Super Bowl 56, and Dan Doornink was born in ’56 (Dan Doornink=56).

Kupp has 61 regular season TDs as the time of his death, and 107 games started, in the 107th NFL season (Ritual Sacrifice=107, Seattle=107).