@easyscore Umm no. Ever heard of Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Landanian Tomlison, or Eric Dickerson? These guy would ru circles around those slow ass linebackers of that era. Sayers is overrated.
Butkus was the best of the three, and maybe the best of all time. Sayers would make cuts in the holes, run through tackles, and change speeds. He would slow down when they had an angle on him and then speed back up when they got close. No other back like him, ever.
If the bears kept George Allen, he would've surrounded those 2 studs with good players, and they would've been up there with the Pack and Cowboys. Instead Allen went to LA and DC instead.
Both of these guys belong in the Hall of Fame without question. Playing ability and stats are only part of the equation. These guys go above and beyond that. And the fact that they played for an overall mediocre team just enhances their status. They had to be great to do all this while playing for a terrible team. Team wise you can only do so much with what you've got to work with and the suit and tie management of a team is more the determinant of the overall makeup of a team.
The "greatest linebacker ever" and one of the "greatest running-backs ever" on the same team, yet they couldn't lead the Bears to a SINGLE playoff run the whole time they were there??? LMAO
These 2 scream "overrated".
That's what happens when you play for a big market and:
a) can make big hits
or
b) can juke a couple of players
I guess winning is not that important when you have those ^^^ qualities.
@QBDogKiller Football is a TEAM sport. Note that 2 players are not a team. There are 2 players on their team and, quite frankly, after their rookie season, the teams they faced essentially zoned in on them. They couldn't throw the football, so they knew the ball was going to Gale, and it was hardly possible for Butkus to make every single tackle of every single game. Btw, I've seen you trolling on other vids.
In football, when you are a TEAM LEADER on offense (Sayers) and defense (Butkus) and are considered "one of the greatest ever" at your position, you are held accountable for the team's success and failures.
If those teams had won championships thanks to a higher talent level, the media would be gushing on how "Sayers and Butkus carried that team to a ring".
You can't have it both ways.
Btw, I can tell you never played football before.
@QBDogKiller Barry Sanders never led his team to a single playoff win. Reggie White with the Eagles is a pretty good example. The Eagles were pretty well off, but never got past a conference game. Eric Dickerson with the Rams, Colts, and the other teams he was with were none too succseful either. These guys are great PLAYERS. Not necessarily great LEADERS. But hey, I'll just take you're word on it and disregard people who've played in the actual NFL.....
@QBDogKiller Sanders got the Lions to a wildcard game, not a championship game. Dicerson got his team to a conf. championship (None of which he won). In Sayers 4 good years, he made up about 1/3 of the Bears total offense. At any given season, Butkus had either 1 or no pro bowl defenders in the roster to work with. The year Sayers was away, the Bears had 2 rushing TDs and about 650 rushing yards. Dick Butkus was their only pro bowler besides their punter.
@QBDogKiller I apologize for getting a fact wrong. But here's something I know. That team had 6 players that went to the pro bowl that year. However much you argue, the entire world knows that these players (Dick and Gale) were some of the greatest to step on the field. If you're too, and I'm quoting you on this, "Fucking retarded" to take the opinion of those who played football PROFFESIONALLY (And not just argue on youtube) then just live in your own world of idiocy, be my guess, asshole.
@QBDogKiller Sanders didn't get them there, the team did. Do you know anything about the '91 Lions? Erik Kramer, Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, Mel Gray, Chris Spielman, Ray Crockett...I could do this all day. You keep telling people to do their research - try taking your own advice.
You have 3 Pro-Bowlers at: WR (Herman Moore), LB (Chris Spielman) and return-man (Mel Gray)....
The rest are a bunch of clowns (including a QB who threw for 1,635 yds. and 11 TDs...not exactly Dan Marino. LMAO XD) whose names you thew out there to sound like you "know" something.
Congratulations dipshit, you just proved to be a competent Wikipedia user. You can apply for a job at McDonald's with that kind of skill.
Don't make stupid arguments to "sound" smart. Doesn't work
@QBDogKiller It takes more than two players to take a team to a championship. Sayers and Butkus were surrounded by mediocre players. The '91 Detroit Lions were a multidimensional team.
It's called individual accomplishiment you MORON! I've personally seen both eras. That was real football back then. Urlacher would have pissed his pants trying to play in those days. He is NO Butkus! Get a clue pussy.
@JBILLINI Shut up old man! You fucking old wrinkly bastard..Urlacher and Forte are already more accomplished than them. I don't give a fuck what era. Butkus played in an era with shitty backs. he never faced guys Like Earl campbell, Payton , Sanders, Dickerson, Emmit Smith, Peterson and on and on. Oj or Jim Brown were the only good ones. Other than that running backs sucked compared to the backs in the last 30 years. So fuck you PUSSY!!!
Back then they played for the love of the game you ignorant punk! Now it's all about me,me, me, money, money money. You'll never understand. No clue idiots like you are the reason our country is becoming 2nd rate. Wake up and get an education you pathetic waste of good oxygen. Look at the stats asshole. Facts are facts. Forte & Urlacher aren't even in the same league as Sayers & Butkus. Now get back to your job. I'm sure someone is needing some fries with their Big Mac.
@MegaJohnnywadd Ok, how many pro bowls has Matt Forte had? Out of 9 years, Butkus has had 2 Defensive Player of the years. Out of 10 years Urlacher has 1. Butkus has had 3 more All Pro seasons than Urlacher. P.S. Urlacher has gotten run over way more times than I can count.
@MegaJohnnywadd funny thing is forte wasent on there superbowl team and yea dick butkus and gale sayers did nothing k man if you say so...you know nothing about football at all.
To give you an idea of how great Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers were. They didn't let the fact that they played on bad teams in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s. Stop them from being great players.
In all honesty, you can break down the dreams and aspirations of all football players by having them choose which of these guys they like more.
If you'd have sat me down at a young age and asked who I wanted to be, I'd tell you I respected the smooth and flash style of Sayers, but I wanted to be tough and ruthless like the Butkus.
Can you believe it? One NFL player points out to his teammate who Dick Butkus is... and the moron has no idea what he's talking about! Well, that' is exactly the mentality of many of today's athletes. They are quite ignorant!!
LAMBERT!!!!!!!!#58 BUTKUS!!!!!!#51 THE BEST EVER!!! after that Lawrence Taylor - Ray Lewis and then who the hell will remember you? but in a 4-3(i grew up playing) #58 and #51 ! Love L.T.,know him,lives less than a mile from me,but he was a hybrid DE/OLB-Blitz crazy!lol Ray Lewis ,a machine. Tough,Big,Fast,Strong,Mean, yet for all that said-he has NEVER put the team on his back and controlled the game.I saw Lambert,L.T.,Dick Butkus do that quite a few times.Watch Super Bowl X. 'nuff said
2 totally class acts....Sadly, its an era long gone.....Too bad all the showboating and garbage goes on today and is rewarded by people paying tons of money to see these P'sOS. We are reaping what we sow, and that is not a good thing. Society is reflected by these worthless, arrogant, greedy, bastards that play today. Thankfully, we can watch old school games. I don't even watch ANY of this era's sports. F it.
this was back when football players were real men. These punks today walk around with ear ring son, and hair going down their back like clowns. They never could have played for Chuck Knox, Tom Landry, or Bear Bryant looking like girls.
The thing that I find most impressive about Gale Sayers is his ability to make his moves at full speed. I've not seen any runner since then that could do that. If he had the advantages of the medical/surgical technologies of today, who knows how many more years he could have played.
@uhmfar Sorry pal... these guys played many of their games on artificial turf... where if you're running straight and making cuts, it gives the runner an advantage. Sayers could do it all whether he were playing on artificial turf, natural grass or MUD!!! In my book, he is the greatest!!
@ChiTown7721 Well yea he had Butkus chasing after em on the practice field lol I'm not a Bears fan but i live in Bear country and these guys are legends here along with Sweetness,is funny that im a Packers fan but guys I admire most played for the Bears
@ChiTown7721 --Right. Sayres may have been the best talent wise ever, next to Jim Brown. Those 6 TDs on a muddy field---unbelievable. And in 1968, he was averaging more than 6 yds per carry until the devastating knee injury. He was finished after that, but even with a short career, still goes into Hall. 2 unbelievable players in same rookie group.
All of you who doubt either of these players being hall of famers hush your mouths. Talent is not the only thing that makes a hall of famer, you have to be smart. Gale may not have been the most talented but he was definately one of the smartest.
Sayers only got into the Hall because the standards of entry back then were lower. Today he wouldn't get in. There are dozens of other RB's with better numbers who aren't in the Hall
@veryslyfox i agree mostly, but i also think it was alot harder to get those yards than it is today. Today, the NFL favors the offense alot more-alot of the tackles seen in this video would cause tacklers 10,000 dollar fines today. plus 6 touchdowns in a game is pretty rare.
@veryslyfox If Sayers had played in a time where they had the medical technology that they have now, he probably could have played another 7 seasons. Recovering from a knee surgery nowadays is not nearly as bad as it was when he played. For most guys back then, that was a career ending injury. The medical technology they have now is a million times better.
@ChiTown7721 You can't assume that today's medical technology would have added much to his career. Terrell Davis didn't extend his career after his knee surgery. Stop speculating. All that matters is Sayers career rushing numbers were crap. Even average players Terry Allen and Rodney Hampton had more freaking yards. Sayers should be removed from the HOF
@veryslyfox You can't say that it wouldn't have made a difference either, and you can't deny that a player getting knee surgery today is a hell of a lot more likely to make a full recovery than somebody getting surgery 40 years ago. You don't have to get so pissed off. We're just going to have to agree to disagree.
@veryslyfox Total career yards alone do not determine greatness. You would be the first "ahh expert" I ever heard stating Sayers does not belong in the hall of fame.
Sounds silly. The fact that he had such a short career and people still talk about him
proves he was something special. Career stats for modern players should be bigger. They play 16 games per season versus 12 or even 10 in the 1950's.
@veryslyfox Players today also have the advantage of steroids, the use of which is rampant in the NFL nowadays. People don't evolve over a period of 40 years. Also, as comicfanartist1 said, the NFL today favors the offense a lot more. You practically have to pick a guy up and lay him down like a baby not to get penalized nowadays. I once saw a penalty against the Bears because the defensive player "used his weight to push down on the quarterback". All I could say was "Are you fucking serious?!"
@veryslyfox It's because sayers was an outstanding player. He had a very short career, too. But numbers don't matter. I guarantee you that Sayers is better than any running back in the NFL right now.
great video post......butkus was my favorite player when i was a kid.sayers had eyes in the back of his head.....i havent been a bears fan since they got cheap and traded away or released..wilbur marshall...but its good to see the greatest defensive player ever ,again..and the comet.
@easyscore Umm no. Ever heard of Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Landanian Tomlison, or Eric Dickerson? These guy would ru circles around those slow ass linebackers of that era. Sayers is overrated.
hitek9wittafulclip 3 weeks ago
A healthy Gale Sayers was the greatest back ever
easyscore 3 weeks ago
Butkus was the best of the three, and maybe the best of all time. Sayers would make cuts in the holes, run through tackles, and change speeds. He would slow down when they had an angle on him and then speed back up when they got close. No other back like him, ever.
turnonstan 1 month ago
If the bears kept George Allen, he would've surrounded those 2 studs with good players, and they would've been up there with the Pack and Cowboys. Instead Allen went to LA and DC instead.
VolumedMusicMan 2 months ago
Both of these guys belong in the Hall of Fame without question. Playing ability and stats are only part of the equation. These guys go above and beyond that. And the fact that they played for an overall mediocre team just enhances their status. They had to be great to do all this while playing for a terrible team. Team wise you can only do so much with what you've got to work with and the suit and tie management of a team is more the determinant of the overall makeup of a team.
theskeptic2010 2 months ago
The "greatest linebacker ever" and one of the "greatest running-backs ever" on the same team, yet they couldn't lead the Bears to a SINGLE playoff run the whole time they were there??? LMAO
These 2 scream "overrated".
That's what happens when you play for a big market and:
a) can make big hits
or
b) can juke a couple of players
I guess winning is not that important when you have those ^^^ qualities.
How sad.
QBDogKiller 3 months ago
@QBDogKiller Football is a TEAM sport. Note that 2 players are not a team. There are 2 players on their team and, quite frankly, after their rookie season, the teams they faced essentially zoned in on them. They couldn't throw the football, so they knew the ball was going to Gale, and it was hardly possible for Butkus to make every single tackle of every single game. Btw, I've seen you trolling on other vids.
rorank 2 months ago
@rorank
In football, when you are a TEAM LEADER on offense (Sayers) and defense (Butkus) and are considered "one of the greatest ever" at your position, you are held accountable for the team's success and failures.
If those teams had won championships thanks to a higher talent level, the media would be gushing on how "Sayers and Butkus carried that team to a ring".
You can't have it both ways.
Btw, I can tell you never played football before.
You wouldn't understand what I said.
QBDogKiller 2 months ago
@QBDogKiller Barry Sanders never led his team to a single playoff win. Reggie White with the Eagles is a pretty good example. The Eagles were pretty well off, but never got past a conference game. Eric Dickerson with the Rams, Colts, and the other teams he was with were none too succseful either. These guys are great PLAYERS. Not necessarily great LEADERS. But hey, I'll just take you're word on it and disregard people who've played in the actual NFL.....
rorank 2 months ago
@rorank
1. The players you mentioned GOT THEIR TEAMS TO THE PLAYOFFS.
2. They were the ONLY great players on their teams.
3. In some cases (Sanders, Dickerson) they got their teams to a championship game, ONE STEP AWAY from a super bowl.
How does that compare to Sayers and Butkus who were:
1. From the same draft class (1965)
2. Played together roughly 6/7 years.
3. Were the leaders of their respective side of the ball.
4. AND NEVER GOT THEIR TEAM TO THE PLAYOFFS.
-Nice try
QBDogKiller 2 months ago
@QBDogKiller Sanders got the Lions to a wildcard game, not a championship game. Dicerson got his team to a conf. championship (None of which he won). In Sayers 4 good years, he made up about 1/3 of the Bears total offense. At any given season, Butkus had either 1 or no pro bowl defenders in the roster to work with. The year Sayers was away, the Bears had 2 rushing TDs and about 650 rushing yards. Dick Butkus was their only pro bowler besides their punter.
rorank 2 months ago
@rorank
"Sanders got the Lions to a wildcard game"
Not exactly.
He got the Lions to the NFC Championship vs. the Redskins during the 1991 season (after beating the Cowboys in the NFC Divisional Round).
-Good job, try doing some research next time before posting your dumb bullshit one here.
(That's the problem with YouTube, most users are fucking retards.)
QBDogKiller 2 months ago
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@QBDogKiller I apologize for getting a fact wrong. But here's something I know. That team had 6 players that went to the pro bowl that year. However much you argue, the entire world knows that these players (Dick and Gale) were some of the greatest to step on the field. If you're too, and I'm quoting you on this, "Fucking retarded" to take the opinion of those who played football PROFFESIONALLY (And not just argue on youtube) then just live in your own world of idiocy, be my guess, asshole.
rorank 2 months ago
@QBDogKiller Btw, BLOCKED ASSHOLE
rorank 2 months ago
@rorank
WTF???
That's how you defend your intellect, by "blocking" someone???
Go back to school kid.
QBDogKiller 2 months ago
@QBDogKiller Sanders didn't get them there, the team did. Do you know anything about the '91 Lions? Erik Kramer, Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, Mel Gray, Chris Spielman, Ray Crockett...I could do this all day. You keep telling people to do their research - try taking your own advice.
sd31263 2 months ago
@sd31263
You have 3 Pro-Bowlers at: WR (Herman Moore), LB (Chris Spielman) and return-man (Mel Gray)....
The rest are a bunch of clowns (including a QB who threw for 1,635 yds. and 11 TDs...not exactly Dan Marino. LMAO XD) whose names you thew out there to sound like you "know" something.
Congratulations dipshit, you just proved to be a competent Wikipedia user. You can apply for a job at McDonald's with that kind of skill.
Don't make stupid arguments to "sound" smart. Doesn't work
QBDogKiller 2 months ago
@QBDogKiller It takes more than two players to take a team to a championship. Sayers and Butkus were surrounded by mediocre players. The '91 Detroit Lions were a multidimensional team.
-Nice try.
sd31263 2 months ago
4 Packer transvestite fans dislikes this!
alx88chef 3 months ago
DICK BUTKUS?
britales 3 months ago
RE: Comment about "Dean Jones", it's Deacon Jones, of the LA Rams, played on their defensive line with Merlin Olson.
pastrami1945 4 months ago
I would go with Forte and Urlacher at least they got to a superbowl. Dickhead Butkus and overrated Gales Sayers did shit!!
MegaJohnnywadd 4 months ago
@MegaJohnnywadd Yeah, shut the fuck up bitch.
rorank 4 months ago
@MegaJohnnywadd
It's called individual accomplishiment you MORON! I've personally seen both eras. That was real football back then. Urlacher would have pissed his pants trying to play in those days. He is NO Butkus! Get a clue pussy.
JBILLINI 4 months ago
@JBILLINI Shut up old man! You fucking old wrinkly bastard..Urlacher and Forte are already more accomplished than them. I don't give a fuck what era. Butkus played in an era with shitty backs. he never faced guys Like Earl campbell, Payton , Sanders, Dickerson, Emmit Smith, Peterson and on and on. Oj or Jim Brown were the only good ones. Other than that running backs sucked compared to the backs in the last 30 years. So fuck you PUSSY!!!
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@MegaJohnnywadd
Back then they played for the love of the game you ignorant punk! Now it's all about me,me, me, money, money money. You'll never understand. No clue idiots like you are the reason our country is becoming 2nd rate. Wake up and get an education you pathetic waste of good oxygen. Look at the stats asshole. Facts are facts. Forte & Urlacher aren't even in the same league as Sayers & Butkus. Now get back to your job. I'm sure someone is needing some fries with their Big Mac.
JBILLINI 4 months ago
@MegaJohnnywadd Ok, how many pro bowls has Matt Forte had? Out of 9 years, Butkus has had 2 Defensive Player of the years. Out of 10 years Urlacher has 1. Butkus has had 3 more All Pro seasons than Urlacher. P.S. Urlacher has gotten run over way more times than I can count.
rorank 4 months ago
@MegaJohnnywadd funny thing is forte wasent on there superbowl team and yea dick butkus and gale sayers did nothing k man if you say so...you know nothing about football at all.
panthers7775 3 months ago
LOOOOL @ 5:17-19
windstand 4 months ago
this guy could juke!!!
Asomugha24xPro 4 months ago
0:10 is that elephant poop on the field? can't be sanitary
thesaltyd619 5 months ago
half those hits would be fined these days...this is the era when football players were football players, not over hyped and over paid whine asses.
lcht2 5 months ago
DICK BUTKIS WAS A STONE COLD LINEBACKER OOH WEE HIS HITS IS BAD REALLY SUPERBAD I WOULDN,T BUMP HEADS WITH HIM LOL.
jeroldhimes 6 months ago
To give you an idea of how great Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers were. They didn't let the fact that they played on bad teams in Chicago in the late 60s and early 70s. Stop them from being great players.
FRSFreeState 6 months ago
Go Bears this Season!! All the way to the Super Bowl!
haveittodayray 6 months ago
In all honesty, you can break down the dreams and aspirations of all football players by having them choose which of these guys they like more.
If you'd have sat me down at a young age and asked who I wanted to be, I'd tell you I respected the smooth and flash style of Sayers, but I wanted to be tough and ruthless like the Butkus.
PooPoo2U 6 months ago
lol. 3:26.
zacharyninja1 7 months ago
they never made the playoffs
brucedavis76 7 months ago
@brucedavis76 Yeah, too bad too. They really deserved it.
rorank 7 months ago
Can you believe it? One NFL player points out to his teammate who Dick Butkus is... and the moron has no idea what he's talking about! Well, that' is exactly the mentality of many of today's athletes. They are quite ignorant!!
TheAssasin2525 9 months ago
a very very great player, thank you Gayle for all the great memories...!
mongration 9 months ago
Of the 3 great Middle linebackers in Bears history:
Butkus=Toughest
Singletary=Smartest
Urlacher=Quickest
Gwitfu90 10 months ago 4
@Gwitfu90 Idk if Urlacher is quicker than Butkus.
bootysweat44 1 month ago
Wish Urlacher played pissed off all the time like Butkus did.
BearsDkills 10 months ago
2 of the Greatest ever....Butkus best LB ever no doubt
scotter420wigb 1 year ago
Dean Joes said he he wanted to inflict as much pain on those he tackled and he has the nerve to make a poem about Butkus.
MIKECNW 1 year ago
@MIKECNW
Dean Jones? The actor in those 60s Disney films? He wanted to inflict pain on people?
uhmfar 1 year ago
The two best draft picks ever? Hard to argue, although injuries ruined them both.
uhmfar 1 year ago
BUTKUS OF THE 60'S
LAMBERT OF THE 70'S = THE GOLD STANDARD OF THEIR ERA'S
SAYERS THE BEST RB I EVER SAW....
Mastophales 1 year ago
BUTKUS OF THE 60'S
LAMBERT OF THE 70'S = THE GOLD STANDARD OF THEIR ERA'S
Mastophales 1 year ago
LAMBERT!!!!!!!!#58 BUTKUS!!!!!!#51 THE BEST EVER!!! after that Lawrence Taylor - Ray Lewis and then who the hell will remember you? but in a 4-3(i grew up playing) #58 and #51 ! Love L.T.,know him,lives less than a mile from me,but he was a hybrid DE/OLB-Blitz crazy!lol Ray Lewis ,a machine. Tough,Big,Fast,Strong,Mean, yet for all that said-he has NEVER put the team on his back and controlled the game.I saw Lambert,L.T.,Dick Butkus do that quite a few times.Watch Super Bowl X. 'nuff said
joeknee4767 11 months ago
what is bill Crosby talking about really??
nothingutbusiness 1 year ago
2 totally class acts....Sadly, its an era long gone.....Too bad all the showboating and garbage goes on today and is rewarded by people paying tons of money to see these P'sOS. We are reaping what we sow, and that is not a good thing. Society is reflected by these worthless, arrogant, greedy, bastards that play today. Thankfully, we can watch old school games. I don't even watch ANY of this era's sports. F it.
BarneeFife 1 year ago
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this was back when football players were real men. These punks today walk around with ear ring son, and hair going down their back like clowns. They never could have played for Chuck Knox, Tom Landry, or Bear Bryant looking like girls.
tbursee 1 year ago
LOL, 3:26 is hilarious. Who knew Butkus had a sense of humor.
Monkey2ewok 1 year ago
3:26 ... Hahahahaha!!!
Monkey2ewok 1 year ago
just think if butkus and sayers did not get hurt sayers would there records would stil would not be broken
ammisty 1 year ago
Butkus... what can you say. Best ever? I think so.
dougmanification 1 year ago
Two good men. Two great players.
edwdixon5 1 year ago
The thing that I find most impressive about Gale Sayers is his ability to make his moves at full speed. I've not seen any runner since then that could do that. If he had the advantages of the medical/surgical technologies of today, who knows how many more years he could have played.
ChiTown7721 1 year ago 15
@ChiTown7721 Devin Hester can make those full speed moves too. Pretty cool cause theyre both Bears.
brainiac101693 1 year ago
@ChiTown7721
O.J., Tony Dorsett, and Barry Sanders could do the same. All great, of course.
uhmfar 1 year ago
@uhmfar Sorry pal... these guys played many of their games on artificial turf... where if you're running straight and making cuts, it gives the runner an advantage. Sayers could do it all whether he were playing on artificial turf, natural grass or MUD!!! In my book, he is the greatest!!
TheAssasin2525 9 months ago
@ChiTown7721 Well yea he had Butkus chasing after em on the practice field lol I'm not a Bears fan but i live in Bear country and these guys are legends here along with Sweetness,is funny that im a Packers fan but guys I admire most played for the Bears
misfitfiend83 4 months ago
@ChiTown7721 --Right. Sayres may have been the best talent wise ever, next to Jim Brown. Those 6 TDs on a muddy field---unbelievable. And in 1968, he was averaging more than 6 yds per carry until the devastating knee injury. He was finished after that, but even with a short career, still goes into Hall. 2 unbelievable players in same rookie group.
loyaldude10 4 months ago
All of you who doubt either of these players being hall of famers hush your mouths. Talent is not the only thing that makes a hall of famer, you have to be smart. Gale may not have been the most talented but he was definately one of the smartest.
SuperWaterboy17 1 year ago
Finally, a highlight reel where you can actually hear the commentaries, rather than idiotic, annoying music.
davidanthonyross 1 year ago 27
@davidanthonyross I totally agree with you!!!!
TheAssasin2525 9 months ago
Sayers only got into the Hall because the standards of entry back then were lower. Today he wouldn't get in. There are dozens of other RB's with better numbers who aren't in the Hall
veryslyfox 1 year ago
@veryslyfox i agree mostly, but i also think it was alot harder to get those yards than it is today. Today, the NFL favors the offense alot more-alot of the tackles seen in this video would cause tacklers 10,000 dollar fines today. plus 6 touchdowns in a game is pretty rare.
comicfanartist1 1 year ago
@veryslyfox mkjhki
dbboller 1 year ago
@veryslyfox If Sayers had played in a time where they had the medical technology that they have now, he probably could have played another 7 seasons. Recovering from a knee surgery nowadays is not nearly as bad as it was when he played. For most guys back then, that was a career ending injury. The medical technology they have now is a million times better.
ChiTown7721 1 year ago
@ChiTown7721 You can't assume that today's medical technology would have added much to his career. Terrell Davis didn't extend his career after his knee surgery. Stop speculating. All that matters is Sayers career rushing numbers were crap. Even average players Terry Allen and Rodney Hampton had more freaking yards. Sayers should be removed from the HOF
veryslyfox 1 year ago
@veryslyfox You can't say that it wouldn't have made a difference either, and you can't deny that a player getting knee surgery today is a hell of a lot more likely to make a full recovery than somebody getting surgery 40 years ago. You don't have to get so pissed off. We're just going to have to agree to disagree.
ChiTown7721 1 year ago
@veryslyfox Total career yards alone do not determine greatness. You would be the first "ahh expert" I ever heard stating Sayers does not belong in the hall of fame.
Sounds silly. The fact that he had such a short career and people still talk about him
proves he was something special. Career stats for modern players should be bigger. They play 16 games per season versus 12 or even 10 in the 1950's.
andrewr62 1 year ago
@andrewr62 Not to mention the NFL is much rougher around this time period.
shiron236 1 year ago
@veryslyfox Players today also have the advantage of steroids, the use of which is rampant in the NFL nowadays. People don't evolve over a period of 40 years. Also, as comicfanartist1 said, the NFL today favors the offense a lot more. You practically have to pick a guy up and lay him down like a baby not to get penalized nowadays. I once saw a penalty against the Bears because the defensive player "used his weight to push down on the quarterback". All I could say was "Are you fucking serious?!"
ChiTown7721 1 year ago
@veryslyfox numbers ain't everything
connectionfilms 1 year ago
@veryslyfox It's because sayers was an outstanding player. He had a very short career, too. But numbers don't matter. I guarantee you that Sayers is better than any running back in the NFL right now.
hcvideoproductions 1 year ago
@veryslyfox That is the most ingnorant comment ever made!
greekjeff 1 year ago
wow...gale sayers and butkus...
ironic how knee injuries took the 2 best players on those Bears teams...
plasterdat 1 year ago
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algreen90 1 year ago
Gayle Sayers was magic. Thank you for the video
june1683 1 year ago
"of his time" ? Dick Butkus is the best there ever was.
des696969 1 year ago
Pat Summerall has that announcing voice. AWSOME!
xxchinookxx 1 year ago
@xxchinookxx You said it, brother. The greatest of all time. THE VOICE OF THE NFL
galesayers 1 year ago
Jesus...Gale Had a fresh lining at 0:33.
KizaSoze25 1 year ago
great video post......butkus was my favorite player when i was a kid.sayers had eyes in the back of his head.....i havent been a bears fan since they got cheap and traded away or released..wilbur marshall...but its good to see the greatest defensive player ever ,again..and the comet.
bectonbrainwave 1 year ago
the greatest draft ever...yet, never in the playoffs
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago
i think the current bears would be inspired by this video. Well they should be.
RckR12 2 years ago
This should be mandatory viewing for the current Bears!
dick1238 2 years ago