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 ...

"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.

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' 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.

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.

And so to me, Gale Sayers was the first football player who really humanized football players. You had catharsis for his injury. You saw his tears in this movie. And here at the end, he dies from CTE.

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, 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 ...

Despite an injury-shortened career ... the Chicago Bears mourn the loss of Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers. Sayers amplified what it meant to be a Chicago Bear both on and off the ...

Gale Sayers standing in front of you telling you ... He was named first-team All-Pro in each of those years. A knee injury limited Sayers to four games over the next two seasons and he retired ...

Gale Sayers passed away at 77 on Wednesday after ... There was never any doubt that I’d return, knee injury or no. But think of Brian and his fortitude in the months since last November, in ...