Bears coach Matt Nagy was born seven years after Gale Sayers last carried a football in 1971. But he’s seen the highlights.
“You could just see that he could tell what he was going to do before the defender knew what he was going to do,“ he said about Sayers, who died Wednesday at 77. “And [he] just had a lot of nice, long runs. It was just pretty, pretty to watch.”
Nagy and receiver Allen Robinson both met Sayers at the Bears’ 100th-year celebration in June 2019. Sayers, who battled dementia for years, attended but was in ill health.