As a child growing up in OK, the Kanas Comet was my idol and favorite player. I would pray that Chicago was on TV every Sunday. At his HOF induction, George Halas, owner and head coach of the Bears, said watching Gale run was like watching Poetry in Motion.
Awesome compilation! "Just give me 18" of daylight - that's all I need." The man was a HUMAN GAZELLE - run at top speed, stop, twist, spin, go in the opposite direction, then jump, slide and cut perpendicular, all in what seemed like one singular motion. Time stopped... but "Gale Sayers" kept moving. He was thee hallmark, athletic improviser... and it was all natural ability and instinct. I read his book, "I am Third" decades ago. The man was as humble off the field as he was poetic on the field. And YES... he was the "Jimi Hendrix" of football 🏈. Like "Hendrix" he defied convention, and nearly defied physics... and could never explain how, other than "feeling it." His ability cannot be explained... only marveled. Thank goodness for cameras 📸 that and film 📼. I wonder what young, up-and-coming, players think when coaches show clips of "Gales Sayers" defying gravity and logic. "Did he just do that... how? How can he anticipate every move of every player in his path... and easily evade them without hesitation?!" There is no answer... he just "could." RIP KANSAS COMET, "GALE SAYERS!!" You may have been 3rd in your book... but you were 1st on the football 🏈 field.
Great 👍 post. THE REASON NO ONE RUNS LIKE THIS TODAY IS BECAUSE THEY AINT GALE SAYERS! I SUPPOSE THE MAN WHO CAME CLOSEST IN RECENT TIME WOULD BE ADRIAN PETERSON ...😊
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673Sir, can you please help me identify a piece of music I've seen in NFL Films? It's been in several highlights, but I've never known the title or the composer. It's the music that plays during the Walter Payton segment of the 1984 Bears highlight video [It's called "Fight to the Finish"]. Please help me if you can!
Gale Sayers was the BEST running back ever to play in the NFL. The Bears had 2 players on those teams. Sayers and Butkus. Halas was so cheap he didn't go get any supporting staff for them. Halas has the BEST defensive player and offensive player and Halas blew it....
I watched him on TV from 65 to 71 great my favorite love the videos, the moves the scores, not many today could do what he did returning punts kickoffs running halfback truly the best ever .
The most exciting and electrifying running back in the history of the game. When you watched Gale play, you were constantly in anticipation that he was going to make those stunning, high speed moves that only he was capable of, and then he'd be off to the races. Thanks for this wonderful tribute, Dave!
Gale Sayers was pure poetry in motion so sad that him and Dick Butkus never were on championship teams but we’re all blessed to have them as Chicago Bears 🐻🏈🍻🍻👍👍🙏🙏
Like I have always said. I don't remember watching him live, but just watch the films man. JUST watch the films. That's all you need to do. Long live Gale Sayers and long live his legend!
A lot of players that I grew up watching have passed in the last year or so. The Dolphins of the early 1970's have been hard hit with the passings of Jim Kiick, Nick Buonicounti, Don Shula, Jim Langer and Bob Kuechenberg. The Packers have been hit hard too- Willie Davis, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr and MacArthur Lane. Other notables that I can think of off the top of my head are Willie Brown, Cliff Branch, Larry Wilson, Tom Dempsey, Ken Riley, Fred Cox, Cedric Hardman, Bill Nelsen, Cas Banaszek and E. J. Holub. Holub started at both center AND Linebacker for the Chiefs in Super Bowl I. Unless Deion Sanders did as much, I don't think anyone else has ever started on both offense and defense in a Super Bowl.
Mr.Volsky, I want to sincerely thank you for taking the time to put this video of - as one Chicago sports writer put it -"... a magnificent running specimen..." together. It's perfect.
Gale Sayers was one tough mudder. December 12, 1965, was evidence of that (and a few other games like that as well). And of course, he was great on a perfect field as well. R.I.P. Gale Sayers. 🙁
I miss your old channel so much! I can't remember the name of the music used in the opening title sequence and in parts throughout "Lombardi", can you jog my memory?
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 no-one has ever posted that show. I have that show on old Vhs tape probably degrading in my basement lol. Thanks for posting D. V.
@@dcahill61 That film was actually released on laserdisc way back in 1978. A few years back I purchased that disc as well as a few other NFL Films ones from back then and got them transferred to digital.
Thanks for the great video! By the way, I'm not sure how many Pro Bowls he played in, either 4 or 5, but he was voted the MVP in all but one of them. The best of the best!
I dont think the Vikings ever tackled him. Hand off to Gale, juke Vikings until he crossed the goal line...and then the Vikings picked up their jock straps.
You know, I never really paid much attention to Gale Sayers highlights until now. In most of his runs, he has the moves and elusiveness of both Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Had his career not been cut so short by those knee injuries, who knows what kinds of records he would have set... and if they would ever have been approached, let alone broken.
