PRO FOOTBALL REPORT / DAILY : AROUND THE NFL : Ditka Meets With Bears’ President

Coach Mike Ditka, who has raised the possibility that he might not be back with the Chicago Bears next season, met with team President Mike McCaskey.

Ditka didn’t stop to talk to reporters after the meeting, and McCaskey went out a side door of Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Ill., avoiding reporters.

After Sunday’s 16-3 loss to the Detroit Lions, Ditka said in broadcast interviews that he might not return next season unless the Bears are committed to obtaining key players that will turn the team, now 5-10, into a Super Bowl contender.

On his radio program Monday night, Ditka didn’t discuss his meeting with McCaskey, but said he expected everything would be worked out by the end of the year.

Joe Montana will return from a nearly two-year, injury-caused absence when the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions close out the NFL’s regular season next Monday night.

Coach George Seifert said that Steve Young will start for the playoff-bound 49ers and Montana will come on in relief.

Anthony Munoz, 34, the Cincinnati Bengals’ 11-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle, said that he will retire after Sunday’s game against Indianapolis.

Munoz has been on the disabled list twice this year, once because of chronic problems with both shoulders, and once because of a torn knee ligament.

The Bengals made Munoz their No. 1 draft choice in 1980 out of USC after team founder Paul Brown watched him play in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State.

“The guy was so big and so good it was a joke,” Brown once said.

Receiver Mark Clayton of the Miami Dolphins was released from a hospital after treatment for a bruised lung suffered against the New York Jets on Sunday night. . . . Tight end Maurice Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles was arrested early Monday for allegedly fighting with bouncers at a downtown dance club after refusing to pay a $5 cover charge, police said.