Asked how he always seemed able to escape from traffic on the field and break open big runs, Sayers once said: “Just give me 18 inches of daylight. That’s all I need.”
Will be missed. God blessed him. May he rest in peace.
Farewell Kansas Comet and tell Pic we said “hello”!
anyone else notice that athletes dont really seem to live any longer than anyone else?
Yet we are told that exercise helps lengthen life... If that were true, wouldn’t most REALLY old people be x-athletes?
I met Gale when he owned a business in Chicago - He Said George Halas was cheapest man he had ever met. The most Gale Sayers ever made was $80,000 a season. He was broke after he retired.
Class act throughout his life.
Had a number 40 football jersey as a kid...as a Giants fan, Joe Morrison immediately became my favorite football player. When I saw on the NFL Highlight Show (with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier) that Gayle Sayers also wore #40...well, during our “kill the guy with the ball” games in the backyard, I had to try out all his moves and jukes (while calling out the play by play aloud).
Great creative running back...
He was a good one...the rest of the NFL today, FU.
schumer and pelosi are upset that trump will get to name a replacement to the hall of fame for the late Gayle Sayers...
it just isn’t fair.
He came from a time when athletes were someone you could look up to.
Another NFL player who didn’t do SJW...Brian Piccolo was great...I guess GOD drafted a running back for HIS team. RIP, Gale and prayers to his family.
Unfortunately, Sayers was his most electric before the era of videotape so generations can’t appreciate how incredibly fast and shifty he was as a runner before his knees were torn up. He was a generational talent and the terrific movie “Brian’s Song” illustrated how even a Southern player could love and embrace a Black player back in the ‘60s. If somebody wanted to claim Brian Piccolo was racist based on his skin color, that person deserves to be punched in the face.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk.....
Class act all the way. Say hi to Brian Piccalo Gayle.
All the great running backs are a joy to watch: Campbell, Sanders, Payton, Bo Jackson, Sayers. It’s as if every time they touch the ball they were on a mission to score and they never went to the ground easy.