Apologies future viewers, this video just got demonetised for a couple short clips used during Sayers 6 TD game, so I had to cut it & blur some of it. Again, it gets copyrighted 2 weeks after upload. If I got notified when I uploaded it, which is how it usually works, I could have fixed it. Unfortunately now it affects the viewer experience.
Greatest open field runner in history and perhaps my favorite player ever to watch play the game. I would sometimes forget myself and root against my club to see this guy excel.
NFL front offices and the coaches they hire demonstrate what it is to be brain dead.I was a teenager during his career and saw every game he played on TV. What a player. That's all I can say. He was magic. Barry and Gale are comparably GREAT.
One of biggest “what could have been” stories in NFL history - no telling what he could have accomplished if he had not been injured. Smoothest and prettiest runner to watch I ever saw - he made doing very difficult things look so easy. What an incredible talent, and by all accounts a very good man.
I was fortunate enough to watch him from his rookie year on, and he has always been my favorite RB, but Barry Sanders certainly reminded us all of what it was like to watch Gale. They were both great.
The best I ever saw! I am a die-hard Missouri football fan. When Sayers was at Kansas, (Missouri's bitter rival), Missouri had a great running back named Johnny Roland. Great matchups between the two, but Sayers was better. (I have to be honest.) Roland was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and rushed for over 900 yards his first year. An impressive total in those days. In his second year he tore up his knee, which ended his career. Sad that neither got to show what they could do over a normal career!
Great video, thanks for making it. I didn't know much about Gayle Sayers before watching this although I'd heard a lot about him. I see now why he is so revered.
I was 9-10 yrs old when I started watching Pro football on TV. Had not picked a favorite team, until I watched Sayers and Butkus playing for The Bears. Yep, I became a Bear fan and am still a Bear fan. Watching Sayers was like watching a gazelle - gracefulness and speed combined into one fluid movement. Watching Butkus was like watching a wrecking ball tear down a building - double-teamed, triple- teamed, it didn't matter he still got to the ball handler and if the exchange from the qb to the rb wasn't fast enough #51 was there to take it! Devastation of the football field bar none!
Even though Jim Brown was easily the dominant RB and for that matter, player of the 60’s, Gale Sayers was a RB who’s running style was FAR ahead of its time, and would have worked in ANY future era of NFL football. Gale was an artist and one of the first versatile RB’s that could be used in multiple offensive roles, including special teams. His numbers don’t pop out at you, but eye test easily concludes that he was one of the most gifted running backs in the history of pro football.
The biggest "what if", there was this quarterback who Bill Walsh said was the best he had ever coached, better than Montana, better than Young. Look up Greg Cook, how spectacular he was until he got injured in his third game of his rookie year vs. SB IV champs K.C Chiefs. He won those first three games, but with a torn rotator cuff injury, the Bengals went 1-9-1 and his career was over. (Walsh next year had to figure out how to win with Virgil Carter, and thus the West Coast offense was invented for a guy who could not throw the ball downfield.)
I agree.....as a Bears fan since 1975, such a great athlete and RB, KR & PR, Gayle Sayers NFL Career cut short due to knee injuries and an ankle injury..... the possibilities are endless if the "Kansas Comet" could have played a little bit longer. 🤔☹ #BearDown Go Bears! 🐻🏈🏈🏈
I gree up in Canton, Ohio. My 1st memory of the Hall of Fame was with my dad. He pointed at this man and said "Hey Bud, go shake his hand". I said Why? He said "because that's Gale Sayers". I will never forget it.
I saw him when I was a kid living by Chicago on a black and white TV. He was special and really fun to watch. It was a shame that injuries shortened his career.
When I moved to Chicago in ‘91, a made it a priority to go the 🐻- 🦁 games. I saw Sayers on 📺, but I wanted to see his doppelgänger Barry Sanders live! Amazing!!!🤩
Gale Sayers, Jim Brown...great running backs when I was growing up in 60s & 70s. We had a running back in high school who ran just like Sayers. He was not a huge running back. Fast as lightning, darted here and there, only needed a small crevice to get through the scrimmage line. He was able to make the same cuts as Sayers, make people miss him. His name is Jerry Flemons, and he was an excellent back, and helped us win championships. I was an offensive lineman.
Can you imagine Sayers on the Chiefs team of those years. They were stacked with future all pro, hall of fame players. Sayers on that team? Good Lord!.
I ran into Gale Sayers at the lobby entrance of a Bennigans downtown Chicago years ago, he was on a pay phone and trying not to be seen. There was nobody else in the place at the time. I instantly recognized him, and said hello, and left him alone; he looked like he was in the middle of something unpleasant. But I thought it was pretty cool just to bump into him by chance
Gayle, Bobby Orr & Joe Namath were victims of ACL & MCL tears. Gayle was the only one of them to have a few seasons with the ligaments in tact as the other two were Dead kneed before entering the professional leagues
I remember watching Sayers play. I also remember watchin Piccilo play. I actually bought a car from Gale in the 80's. After leaving football, he started a chain of car lots.
Green Bay's Golden Boy, Paul Hornung, scored 6 on the same day in a comeback season, after injury and suspension for gambling. He received NO press because of what Gayle did that day. He loved Gayle but hated that day.
As a kid who grew up in the 1970s, I never got a chance to see Sayers play. But I did see the film. I mean, just look at the damn film. That's all I have to say.
Well, there's OJ, Walter Payton, Marshall Falk, LaDanian Tomlinson, Marcus Allen, and lots of others who are also in the conversation. Barry Sanders was prone to negative yardage runs, he couldn't block, and wasn't much as a receiver. He was sort of useless on third down.
@@billmorrison9068 Sanders was the running back equivalent of a 1950's quarterback whose completion percentage wasn't as important as yards per attempt, but he was definitely an asset because his yardage totals include the negative plays. You also need to remember that Brown wasn't known as an all-around back. I stand by my comment.
@@roberthudson1959 Well now, let's take a closer look: Reception totals during the last five years of his career: 46, 47, 24, 36, 24; Y/R for those years: 10.0, 11.0, 11.2, 9.4 and 9.6. In his career, Jim Brown tallied 262 receptions for 2499 yards with 20 touchdowns, averaging 9.5 yards per reception. In other words, very impressive totals for a RB in the 1960s. Strange how you would minimize that.
I'm also reminded of Terrell Davis who played 4 years and excelled in the postseason with 2 Super Bowl rings alongside John Elway before knee injuries cut short his Hall of Fame career. Who knows if Sayers might have won a pair of Super Bowls himself with the Chiefs had he stayed close to home and been luckier?
I am old enough to have watched the great ones in their prime...the three best RB's I ever saw were: 1.) Jim Brown, 2.) Gale Sayers and 3.) Early Campbell...i would have Bo at 4 but he didn't play long enough.
Imagine- Sayers followed by Payton. What a run. Butkus followed, kind of , by Urlacker.What a run.Chicago fans should not be troubled by Farve followed by Rogers. Jury is still out on Love (but it is not looking good.)
for sure, the Bears have been blessed with some of the greats. But they have not been a well run team for a while. That being said, having two of the all time great QBs and only winning two Super Bowls in a ~30 year period pains me (as a Packers fan).
Jaguar Jon Arnett, one of the great all purpose backs and open field runners ever, was also in that backfield for the last two years of his career after so many great ones with the Rams. Ronny Bull was pretty good, too. Bears should have dominated, but alas did not.
There has only been one two time Heisman trophy winner, Archie Griffin, the second year he won it the runner up was . . . Tony Dorsett . . . Compare , TD should have been the only two rime Heisman winner
Routine play, my ass. Kermit Alexander targeted Sayers knee and tried to destroy what might have been the greatest career. Who is the British Twit AI bot.
Magic is my altime favorite Bear, RB to ever play in the NFL..I'll take him over Walter Payton and Jim Brown..My 1st football game was that Dec 12th, game at Wrigley Field and he electrify..I always told my dad that was the best Christmas present I have ever had and I'm 64 years young..Sayers was called Magic because every time he touched the ball you knew something magical was going to happen.
Apologies future viewers, this video just got demonetised for a couple short clips used during Sayers 6 TD game, so I had to cut it & blur some of it. Again, it gets copyrighted 2 weeks after upload. If I got notified when I uploaded it, which is how it usually works, I could have fixed it. Unfortunately now it affects the viewer experience.
It's sad that Sayers' career was cut so short, but he will forever be among the greatest runners and all-around talents in NFL history.
We saw this happen with Bo Jackson as well; the unrealized potential of a once in a generation phenomenon. Hate to see this as fans of the game.
Every time he got the ball, you would hold your breath cuz you just knew something spectacular could happen and many, many times, it did.
Greatest open field runner in history and perhaps my favorite player ever to watch play the game. I would sometimes forget myself and root against my club to see this guy excel.
an easy guy to root for!
I remember seeing this guy when I was a little kid. Every time he touched the ball , it was electrifying
I was very fortunate to have met him one evening when he visited our parish rectory when I was a teenager. A very humble man.
An unbelievable talent, I cried when he went down with a knee injury.
He was a brillant talent. He could do everything and was truly magical.
magic indeed!
NFL front offices and the coaches they hire demonstrate what it is to be brain dead.I was a teenager during his career and saw every game he played on TV. What a player. That's all I can say. He was magic. Barry and Gale are comparably GREAT.
One of biggest “what could have been” stories in NFL history - no telling what he could have accomplished if he had not been injured.
Smoothest and prettiest runner to watch I ever saw - he made doing very difficult things look so easy.
What an incredible talent, and by all accounts a very good man.
Gale Sayers The Kansas Comet as kids I used to watch this man he was so amazing to me.RIP
My favorite Bear player. I saw him play for his whole pro career.
He was ridiculous with the ball in his hand. Top 5 all time greatest RB in NFL history.
I agree. His career was so short, but to still be considered one of the best says it all
I was fortunate enough to watch him from his rookie year on, and he has always been my favorite RB, but Barry Sanders certainly reminded us all of what it was like to watch Gale. They were both great.
yep Barry was like the second coming
The best I ever saw! I am a die-hard Missouri football fan. When Sayers was at Kansas, (Missouri's bitter rival), Missouri had a great running back named Johnny Roland. Great matchups between the two, but Sayers was better. (I have to be honest.) Roland was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and rushed for over 900 yards his first year. An impressive total in those days. In his second year he tore up his knee, which ended his career. Sad that neither got to show what they could do over a normal career!
Great video, thanks for making it. I didn't know much about Gayle Sayers before watching this although I'd heard a lot about him. I see now why he is so revered.
awesome! I really appreciate it 🙏
Sayers was the greatest
He was unearthly good and a great human being!
I started watching football in '65 and Butkus and Sayers were magical! I was 10 and I was instantly a Bears fan!
an unbelievable duo!
He was the greatest! And what a class act!
Flowed like water, so smooth
I was 9-10 yrs old when I started watching Pro football on TV. Had not picked a favorite team, until I watched Sayers and Butkus playing for The Bears. Yep, I became a Bear fan and am still a Bear fan. Watching Sayers was like watching a gazelle - gracefulness and speed combined into one fluid movement. Watching Butkus was like watching a wrecking ball tear down a building - double-teamed, triple- teamed, it didn't matter he still got to the ball handler and if the exchange from the qb to the rb wasn't fast enough #51 was there to take it! Devastation of the football field bar none!
so true...Sayers and Butkus had completely contrasting play styles
What a runner, I got to see Gayle Sayers run as a kid, the best with the rock 🏈
My heart was broken when sayers got hurt butkus too
Even though Jim Brown was easily the dominant RB and for that matter, player of the 60’s, Gale Sayers was a RB who’s running style was FAR ahead of its time, and would have worked in ANY future era of NFL football. Gale was an artist and one of the first versatile RB’s that could be used in multiple offensive roles, including special teams. His numbers don’t pop out at you, but eye test easily concludes that he was one of the most gifted running backs in the history of pro football.
100% agree, his style was timeless
If Sayers and Butkus hadn't been injured, they could have eventually had Walter Payton as a teammate. That would've been insane.
Payton-sayers running duo is the craziest possible thing
Stop it they were years before Payton
@@anthonytaylor7928 they were that draft class of 1965, Payton was 1975, so it’s not impossible for them to have had one to three years with him
@2:28, I saw him live. Trust me, Gale did not even need 18 inches.
I believe that lol
Billy Sims is a big what if too.
The biggest "what if", there was this quarterback who Bill Walsh said was the best he had ever coached, better than Montana, better than Young. Look up Greg Cook, how spectacular he was until he got injured in his third game of his rookie year vs. SB IV champs K.C Chiefs. He won those first three games, but with a torn rotator cuff injury, the Bengals went 1-9-1 and his career was over. (Walsh next year had to figure out how to win with Virgil Carter, and thus the West Coast offense was invented for a guy who could not throw the ball downfield.)
@@newtheis thanks for posting - i never knew this
William Andrews and Bo Jackson too.
I agree.....as a Bears fan since 1975, such a great athlete and RB, KR & PR, Gayle Sayers NFL Career cut short due to knee injuries and an ankle injury.....
the possibilities are endless if the "Kansas Comet" could have played a little bit longer.
🤔☹ #BearDown Go Bears! 🐻🏈🏈🏈
I gree up in Canton, Ohio. My 1st memory of the Hall of Fame was with my dad. He pointed at this man and said "Hey Bud, go shake his hand". I said Why? He said "because that's Gale Sayers". I will never forget it.
To this day Gale Sayers is the best combination of size, speed and ability to change direction ever.
Yes I was blessed too see him play could have the best ever
Truly, poetry in motion.
I saw him when I was a kid living by Chicago on a black and white TV. He was special and really fun to watch. It was a shame that injuries shortened his career.
so sad when a generational talent has their career ended abruptly
Sayers was AMAZING!!!
When I moved to Chicago in ‘91, a made it a priority to go the 🐻- 🦁 games. I saw Sayers on 📺, but I wanted to see his doppelgänger Barry Sanders live!
Amazing!!!🤩
awesome you got to see both!
Gale Sayers, Jim Brown...great running backs when I was growing up in 60s & 70s. We had a running back in high school who ran just like Sayers. He was not a huge running back. Fast as lightning, darted here and there, only needed a small crevice to get through the scrimmage line. He was able to make the same cuts as Sayers, make people miss him. His name is Jerry Flemons, and he was an excellent back, and helped us win championships. I was an offensive lineman.
What happened to him?
He's the greatest.
Most spectacular!
Gale Sayers was the GREATEST
Dang his passion years later as a older man tells me a alot. 🤦🏿♂️started tearing thinking about a better doctor back then. DESIRE 🔥
Can you imagine Sayers on the Chiefs team of those years. They were stacked with future all pro, hall of fame players. Sayers on that team? Good Lord!.
oh...what could have been!
I saw just about every carry of his career. He was just coming into his prime when he got hurt. A crying shame.
He was chosen for halfback on the NFL's 75th anniversary team so maybe he is the GOAT.
I actually saw the play that he got injured ordered on TV and I cried
truly devastating 😔
I lived in Northern Illinois when Sayers and Butkus played. It was a magical time.
I ran into Gale Sayers at the lobby entrance of a Bennigans downtown Chicago years ago, he was on a pay phone and trying not to be seen. There was nobody else in the place at the time. I instantly recognized him, and said hello, and left him alone; he looked like he was in the middle of something unpleasant. But I thought it was pretty cool just to bump into him by chance
yeah that's awesome!
THANKS'' SAYERS''+BUTKUS'' For Making Me A Bears Fan For Life''
Even smooth in the mud.
Gayle, Bobby Orr & Joe Namath were victims of ACL & MCL tears. Gayle was the only one of them to have a few seasons with the ligaments in tact as the other two were Dead kneed before entering the professional leagues
Best open field runner ever.
💯
16 touches 336 yards and 6 TDs. Let that sink in.
it's absurd!
He was the most exciting player ever. He could run for a td anytime he carried the ball. 🤘🃏🎸🥃🍺🤤🛸
I remember watching Sayers play. I also remember watchin Piccilo play. I actually bought a car from Gale in the 80's. After leaving football, he started a chain of car lots.
oh that's awesome!
My opinion,,, the greatest of all time
I treasure my Chicago mini helmet with his autograph on the side.
Johnny Morris said best , for 1 play I take Sayers , for a career I take Payton.. !
Green Bay's Golden Boy, Paul Hornung, scored 6 on the same day in a comeback season, after injury and suspension for gambling. He received NO press because of what Gayle did that day. He loved Gayle but hated that day.
And now both these men are gone.
Got his autograph shortly before he passed on.
oh that's awesome 🙏
Some people say that he was the greatest broken field runner of all time.
As a kid who grew up in the 1970s, I never got a chance to see Sayers play. But I did see the film. I mean, just look at the damn film. That's all I have to say.
I was lucky enough to see him play. True, every time he touch the ball there was a chance he would be gone to the goal line
Gayle Sayers, Derrick Rose…Chicago had two of the biggest What Ifs
He had a sense when an opponent was about to reach him and he would cut leaving the opponent with nothing
Its true Gale was like a ghost!!!💯😎
Brown, Sanders, and Sayers are generally considered to be three of the four best backs in NFL history. The fourth slot is widely debated.
Well, there's OJ, Walter Payton, Marshall Falk, LaDanian Tomlinson, Marcus Allen, and lots of others who are also in the conversation. Barry Sanders was prone to negative yardage runs, he couldn't block, and wasn't much as a receiver. He was sort of useless on third down.
@@billmorrison9068 Sanders was the running back equivalent of a 1950's quarterback whose completion percentage wasn't as important as yards per attempt, but he was definitely an asset because his yardage totals include the negative plays. You also need to remember that Brown wasn't known as an all-around back. I stand by my comment.
@roberthudson1959 Check out Brown's receiving totals. He was a great receiver.
@@billmorrison9068 I did. He averaged 2.2 catches and 21.2 yards receiving per game, with 20 touchdowns. I am not as impressed as you seem to be.
@@roberthudson1959 Well now, let's take a closer look: Reception totals during the last five years of his career: 46, 47, 24, 36, 24; Y/R for those years: 10.0, 11.0, 11.2, 9.4 and 9.6. In his career, Jim Brown tallied 262 receptions for 2499 yards with 20 touchdowns, averaging 9.5 yards per reception. In other words, very impressive totals for a RB in the 1960s. Strange how you would minimize that.
I'm also reminded of Terrell Davis who played 4 years and excelled in the postseason with 2 Super Bowl rings alongside John Elway before knee injuries cut short his Hall of Fame career. Who knows if Sayers might have won a pair of Super Bowls himself with the Chiefs had he stayed close to home and been luckier?
Barry Sanders is the only other running back who was as exciting as Gale Sayers. Too bad they didn't have the surgeries they have now back then.
He was the best, and Jim Brown was correct.
Mr Brown was a smart dude
Sayers road roommates used to say that he was so fast that he could turn off the room light & be in bed before the room got dark.
haha I believe it!
2:12, same old Bears, tragic!
yeah lol
I am old enough to have watched the great ones in their prime...the three best RB's I ever saw were: 1.) Jim Brown, 2.) Gale Sayers and 3.) Early Campbell...i would have Bo at 4 but he didn't play long enough.
So many great running backs, it's hard to rank them. No knock on Bo, but he is nowhere near #4.
Both Sayers and Butkus could have had longer careers if George Halas wasn’t so cheap.
I did see him play in Baltimore
Imagine- Sayers followed by Payton. What a run. Butkus followed, kind of , by Urlacker.What a run.Chicago fans should not be troubled by Farve followed by Rogers. Jury is still out on Love (but it is not looking good.)
for sure, the Bears have been blessed with some of the greats. But they have not been a well run team for a while. That being said, having two of the all time great QBs and only winning two Super Bowls in a ~30 year period pains me (as a Packers fan).
Let's get a Brit guy as an expert on American Football, and it's legends. Strange.
I miss muddy football.
right?!
Rain and snow
His style ended his career early. Cuts are normally made on the ball of the foot, but Gayle cut on his heels, screwing up his knees.
I believe it was a Kermit Washington tackle that destroyed his knee!
Gale was great, but Tony Dorsett was pretty poetic as well, in a much more competitive era . . .
Pocket OJ! Great, but not on the level of Sayers.
...so you're telling me that Billy D Williams could have been the GOAT?...cause that is the guy in the main photo here...
He came to your stadium an made you crazy trying not to root for him.
Sayers and Billy Simms would have been the greatest had not been for injuries.
Chicago still makes the same type of decisions unfortunately
yup!
Sterling Sharpe was a better Wide Receiver than Michael Irvin.
Whew. They were both great. Very similar styles too.
What Sanders could only do on astro turf Sayers did on natural grass
Jaguar Jon Arnett, one of the great all purpose backs and open field runners ever, was also in that backfield for the last two years of his career after so many great ones with the Rams. Ronny Bull was pretty good, too. Bears should have dominated, but alas did not.
There has only been one two time Heisman trophy winner, Archie Griffin, the second year he won it the runner up was . . . Tony Dorsett . . . Compare , TD should have been the only two rime Heisman winner
Watch the Dorsett video, you’ll think . . . Gale who?
What if he had taken the extra two thousand bucks and played for the Chiefs?
👀
But he didn't. Score everytime he touched the ball that is.
The title he could score at any time well how come he didn’t? 🥴
it's a quote, from 0:14
Closest thing to Gale Sayers as a PRO was Reggie Bush in College.
Lots of other great RBs are in that conversation.
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/ZD4dcmyWODA/v-deo.htmlsi=NoL-V1PNzwmR2ZJY
I you don't cry watching Brians Song there's something wrong with you.
Routine play, my ass. Kermit Alexander targeted Sayers knee and tried to destroy what might have been the greatest career. Who is the British Twit AI bot.
Great subject matter. Terrible presentation. You need help.
B.s.
Ditka,did the same to Walter, in the SB!!!💯😎
Magic is my altime favorite Bear, RB to ever play in the NFL..I'll take him over Walter Payton and Jim Brown..My 1st football game was that Dec 12th, game at Wrigley Field and he electrify..I always told my dad that was the best Christmas present I have ever had and I'm 64 years young..Sayers was called Magic because every time he touched the ball you knew something magical was going to happen.
wow what a first game to watch!