Video is Worth a Thousand Words: Gale Sayers
Gale Sayers was a potential highlight film every time he touched the football.
In a new Chicago Sports Then and Now regular feature, we are going to periodically scan YouTube and share some of the best videos and slideshows that highlight the best players and moments from the present and past in Chicago sports.
There is no player in Chicago sports history better suited to video than Gale Sayers. In one of those chicken and the egg questions you can debate whether NFL Films, which came to prominence in the 1960s, is responsible for Sayers reputation as a gamebreaker or if having Sayers amazing moves to present to a wide audience helped establish the value of NFL Films.
Enjoy some of the amazing moves of the Kansas Comet.
Gale Sayers: “18 Inches of Daylight”
1965 Bears vs. 49ers
Classic Gale Sayers:
#2 on NFL Network List of Most Elusive Runners of All-Time:
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