Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus may have stopped playing for the Chicago Bears long before the technology even came around, but now that he’s been verified by Twitter, Chicago is stepping up and taking notice of his hilarious Tweets.

After months of trying to get that little blue check mark, he reached success just a few days ago:

just like that got the blue hashmark
now lets start calling out all of the doubters
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 21, 2022

Shortly thereafter, he called out a sworn enemy to the north 😂:

now that i have the blue mark i can kick people off of the platfrom right

you hear me @AaronRodgers12
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 21, 2022

He also seems to be learning fast about the social influencer game:

its been over an hour since ive been verified and i dont understand why none of the sponsorship money has hit the account yet
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 21, 2022

He’s also been doing some analytics:

based on my numbers the entire city of peoria is following me
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 24, 2022

He also seems to be planning to dive more into other emerging technologies:

maybe the world needs butcoin

can be used to purchase deep dish pizza and chicago beef
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 26, 2022

Dick Butkus is on Twitter. Get used to it.

ill try not to dissappoint any of you but if i do its too damn bad
— Dick Butkus (@thedickbutkus) January 21, 2022

Message received, good sir. Message received.

Eric Kristensen is a marginally famous regional celebrity with 101WKQX. You can follow him on Twitter — @erickristensen. He would greatly appreciate that.