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Former KU and Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers is battling dementia
Kansas City Star ^
| MARCH 18, 2017
| Vahe Gregorian
Posted on 03/20/2017 3:47:04 PM PDT by GreyFriar
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To: AlmaKing
"He and Barry sanders are the best running backs I ever watched." I'd would have to be Jim Brown and Gale Sayers for me.
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posted on
03/20/2017 5:20:56 PM PDT
by
Waryone
(2 Chronicles 7:14; praise God for His great mercy!)
To: GreyFriar
May God ease the pains and trials of Gayle Sayres as he comes closer to his maker. A legendary player and man, soon to leave us yet remain among us. The tragedy of dementia.
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posted on
03/20/2017 5:34:07 PM PDT
by
Thumper1960
(Trump-2016)
To: GreyFriar
Sayers was before my time, but I remember reading his book when I was a kid. Best wishes to him in his fight with this disease. Aging is the real disease that must and will eventually be treated - until then, we're fighting the effects instead of the cause.
And best wishes to Dwight Clark, who gave 49ers fans one of the best memories of our lives as he soared into the darkening skies above the Candlestick mud to pull down Joe Montana's pass in the back of the endzone and sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl. The beginning of some great years for 49ers fans.
To: AlmaKing
I thought Gale Sayers was the best I’ve ever seen. Sanders was good too. As were Brown, Campbell, and hate to say it, Simpson.
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posted on
03/20/2017 6:11:59 PM PDT
by
deweyfrank
(Nobody's Perfect)
To: AlmaKing
Sayers, Sanders, Dickerson, Payton, Brown, Campbell, Smith, Faulk, Peterson, Jackson, Allen, Simpson, Dorsett, Jim Thorpe...( Who I'm related to...)
I never watched Jim Thorpe..but read about him...
I did watch all the others.....
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posted on
03/20/2017 6:21:41 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
To: dfwgator
“never allow his kids to play football”
My childhood playmate was All State, his Junior Year of H.S.
Was recruited by a number of big name Universities. Injured his knee first game, the next season, couldn’t even make a walk on spot at the local Community College, two years later.
We are in our 50’s now. I moved away decades ago, but they tell me his nickname is “Step and a half”.
To: GreyFriar
To: dfwgator
Thank you, now so do I. :-P
To: Osage Orange
I saw Earl Campbell when WVU played Texas last fall in Austin. He was siting in an SUV and then got out slowly and took slow purposeful steps. The beating he took over those years was there.
To: GreyFriar
I cried like a baby when “Brian’s Song” debuted.
And to this day, whenever it comes on, I still do.
That theme song...
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posted on
03/20/2017 6:55:08 PM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: Bratch
I always said that “The Man Law” allows men to cry for two movies: Old Yeller and Brian’s Song.
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posted on
03/20/2017 6:57:10 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: stylin19a
Only 68 games in the NFL?? About the equivalent 5 full seasons, excluding injury time? They played a 14 game regular season schedule back then.
I didn’t realize his career was so short.
To: dfwgator
I always said that The Man Law allows men to cry for two movies: Old Yeller and Brians Song.Don't forget HAL :-)
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posted on
03/20/2017 8:37:14 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
(I)
To: GreyFriar
This is really sad to hear. Mr. Sayers was NOT a "dumb jock." He became extremely successful in technology... I've done some business with his company over the years, never had a bad experience.
Mark
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posted on
03/20/2017 10:32:20 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: dfwgator; Bratch
I was about to post the exact same thing... That you don't lose your MMC (Male Membership Card) if you cry during Brian's Song or Ol Yeller!
Mark
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posted on
03/20/2017 10:40:02 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: MarkL
“Old Yeller” is a good analysis tool.
Any man that doesn’t cry at the end is probably a potential psychopath.
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posted on
03/20/2017 11:30:52 PM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: dfwgator
I think it was Kermit Alexander’s helmet that really took the toll on his knees. He came back from one brutal helmet-to-knee collision, but the second one (two years after the first) finished him. Today - with modern surgery techniques - it might have been a different story...
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posted on
03/21/2017 8:17:11 AM PDT
by
karnage
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