Gale Sayers does: Dec. 12 ... In seven seasons (only 68 games because of two devastating knee injuries), Sayers collected honors more representative of a life's work. "His days at the top of ...

Gale Sayers takes a practice swing during the ... His career was cut short by knee injuries. “I had three knee operations in football and three when I got out of football,” he said.

There the already injury-hampered ... ligament in his left knee resembled San Francisco defensive back Kermit Alexander's tackle of Chicago halfback great Gale Sayers in 1968 in which Sayers ...