{"id":8258,"date":"2020-09-23T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:08:58","slug":"gayle-was-jim-and-barrys-equal-on-the-gridiron-dead-at-77-is-the-great-sayers-from-ku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=8258","title":{"rendered":"Gayle was Jim and Barry’s equal on the gridiron……Dead at 77 is the great Sayers from KU….."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Original Caption) Chicago Bears HB Gale Sayers (40) eludes tackle of Baltimore Colts DB Lenny Lyles and runs 10 yards to touchdown during the fourth quarter of the game here 10\/9. Bears won game 27-17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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SAYERS WAS THE GOAT OF ELUSIVE BACKS…..BET YOUR LIFE ON IT<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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Jim Brown……Barry Sanders……..and there was a man named GAYLE SAYERS, from Kansas.\u00a0 I was the lucky man that was able to view Gayle Sayers in person on a football field playing his position of running back and his specialty of returning kickoffs and punts.\u00a0 I was blessed to watch him on TV playing with my 2nd favorite team, the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n

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In my lifetime, I would rank Mr. Sayers with tho greats that I mentioned above. And as for the history of professional football, the same.<\/p>\n

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Sayers was the second greatest back of the time he was in the NFL in the 1960’s.\u00a0 He had the greatest moves in NFL history this side of Barry.\u00a0 In ranking the all-time greatest runners of my early years (1950-1990) I have him third, just behind Brown and Sanders.\u00a0 Sayers played seven seasons, two in which he was hurt with severe injuries.\u00a0 Give me Sayers during his time and you had all you needed.\u00a0 The youngest man to be voted into the NFL Hall-of-Fame, Sayers was a generational player.\u00a0 So was Brown. So was Sanders.<\/p>\n

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Sad that the man who loved Brian Piccolo is gone but not sorry as they are reunited in Heaven.<\/p>\n

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RIP Gayle Sayers.\u00a0 Rock Chalk Jayhawk.\u00a0 Go Bears!<\/p>\n

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