Like the rest of Bears Nation, I was deeply saddened today to hear of the loss of the greatest pure runner ever to have played the game, Gale Sayers.
Sayers was one of my football idols, and as I will explain below he’s largely the reason that I became a life-long Chicago Bears fan. This is my story, and the story about how watching an amazing athlete can affect a person’s entire life.
When looking back to teams of the 1960’s, there are very few players that you see that would be slam-dunk all-pro’s if they walked onto today’s playing fields in their prime, but that Bears team had two of them, Sayers and Dick Butkus.