Donation Options Search Search Search The Sun-Times’ back page told the sad story of Gale Sayers’ injury against the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 10, 1968. Share Bears Hall of Fame running back ...

Derrick Rose’s torn ACL stunned Chicago — and was reminiscent of another injury 44 years ago. In 1968, in a game against San Francisco at Wrigley Field, Bears halfback Gale Sayers took a pitch ...

"This is his first knee injury. He needs to make sure that he ... Sayers joined 670 The Score to promote the 2012 Gale Sayers Celebrity Golf Classic, which is this Saturday, May 12.

Gale Sayers' infamous quote helps tell the story ... In 1968, Sayers was in the midst of arguably his best season before a serious knee injury altered the course of his career.

After suffering an injury to his left knee in the preseason ... you had best get a hold of a film of Gale Sayers,” Bears owner George Halas said at Sayers’ Hall of fame enshrinement in 1977.

Gale Sayers, whose brief but brilliant football ... only seven seasons with the Chicago Bears before a devastating knee injury led to his retirement. He suffered from dementia in his later years.

Gale was an extraordinary man who ... A member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, Sayers career may have ended prematurely due to injury, but there can be no mistaking his impact ...

Gale Sayers, a graceful and quick Chicago Bears ... His legend continued to grow despite a devastating injury to his right knee that curtailed his 1968 season. But just one year later, Sayers ...

Gale Sayers (left) and Brian Piccolo formed a special ... After coming back from a horrendous knee injury in 1968, Sayers was receiving the George S. Halas Most Courageous Player trophy when ...

Gale Sayers, the dazzling Chicago Bears running back and kick returner whose injury-shortened career made him the youngest player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died after a ...

Gale Sayers’s speech in ‘Brian’s Song’ is ... Faced with his first knee injury in the pros that saw the ACL, medial collateral ligament and meniscus in his right leg shredded.