HOF Highlight Reel: Gale Sayers

by Adam T on May 28, 2009 12:40 PM CDT

Slow news day, so I thought is would be a good time to check out some highlights from Bears past.

We start with The Kansas City Comet, Gale Sayers.

The first clip is from NFLN's Top 10 Elusive Runners where Sayers came in at #2. It has some great quotes from Mike Dikta, Deacon Jones and Bill Cosby?!?

The next is highlights from the Bears and 49ers game where Sayers scored 6 TDs. It is not all Sayers hightlights, but with 6 TDs it is mostly him.

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He was the perfect mudder

I wanna helmet slap Deacon Jones.

Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!

by ifuwannacrownem on May 28, 2009 1:25 PM CDT reply actions

Gale Sayers is one bad ass mudder!

- Smudgers

I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!

by David Taylor on May 28, 2009 9:16 PM CDT up reply actions

He was something else

One of my all-time favorite Bears.

by Sam Householder on May 28, 2009 1:49 PM CDT reply actions

I could watch him and Walter for hours on end

by luckie815 on May 28, 2009 1:58 PM CDT reply actions

No better way to waste time

Going through all the Bears highlight reels on youtube, and then watching a couple Jordan dunk contest clips for dessert. Bad thing to think about when I’m trying to be productive!

by Steve Ronkowski on May 28, 2009 2:30 PM CDT reply actions

Incandesecent?

Joe Buck couldnt even pronounce that word….

When I played I was a triple threat.... Stumble.... Fumble.....Grumble....
"Marcus Harrison iz in ur Backfield sackin ur Quataback!"

by scespy12 on May 28, 2009 2:44 PM CDT reply actions

It's just so unfair he only had a 68 game career. No arthroscopic surgery back then.

It boggles the mind to think what sort of numbers he would have put up in a 12 year career. 22 TDs as a rookie, in a 14 game season, is just sick.

by BigGeorgeTX on May 28, 2009 3:38 PM CDT reply actions

Was that dallas that took him out ?

I live down here in Tx. (now…. orig. from Waukegan) and I cant stand these F’N cowgirl fans and their lame ass team, which their owner is more concerned about getting in the media than building a team with chemistry and throws a ton of money at players like the freakin Yankees!! hmmph! sorry I just really dont like em, rite up their with the fudge packers and dont me started on how NOW their oh so glad T.O is gone,they knew he was bad, they never wanted him, and that he wasnt that good anyway errrrrrr!!! anyway if thats the cowgirls that took out Sayers Im going across the street to punch my neighbor…….and if not Im doing it anyway BEAR DOWN

by ZEPH*ROC on May 28, 2009 3:43 PM CDT reply actions

sorry for that...im eating

by ZEPH*ROC on May 28, 2009 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Kermit Alexander a

by BearFan611 on May 28, 2009 5:48 PM CDT up reply actions

Sorry, my finger slipped

Kermit Alexander, a DB for the 49’ers was the one who submarined him and wrecked his knee. It was a totally legal hit, but, as was stated earlier, knee surgery back then was major and few players came back successfully from it.

by BearFan611 on May 28, 2009 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions

More than likely there was a little bad blood with the 49's after Sayers laid 6 TDs in that game on them.

But players get injured all the time on clean hits. It certainly wasn’t intentional and malicious like Charles Martin’s hit on Jim McMahon in ’86.

by BigGeorgeTX on May 28, 2009 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Actually I meant to say Charles Martin's assault on Jim McMahon.

by BigGeorgeTX on May 28, 2009 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions

Gale Sayers: "et tu Kermit?"

The irony of the whole thing is that Kermit Alexander and Gale Sayers were good friends.

by distressed on May 29, 2009 8:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Sayers was

simply the greatest running back who ever lived. If his career had not be shortened by injuries, he would have passed Jim Brown before Payton did and probably would have actually passed the torch to Sweetness. What a shame.

by Sayers400 on May 28, 2009 3:48 PM CDT reply actions

wow

one of the greatest. its too bad about the injuries =[

by MAY on May 28, 2009 3:57 PM CDT reply actions

The Bill Cosby remarks aren't that weard...

if you read Sayer’s book I Am Third, at least the copy I had, Cosby wrote the introduction.

by chase17 on May 28, 2009 4:07 PM CDT reply actions

Hester deserves credit for what he achieved

but after watching that, I don’t know how anyone can say he is as good a runner as Sayers.

by BearFan611 on May 28, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions

Indeed.

I looked up “elusiveness” in the dictionary. The entry was just a picture of Bears #40.

"They tried to take out the quarterback, and if they managed that, they tried to take out the backup." - Bears SB20 TE Emery Moorehead, on the mentality of *that* defense

by Spongie on May 29, 2009 1:26 AM CDT up reply actions