BREAKING: Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears legend and Hall of Famer, is dead at age 77
Gale Sayers, one of the most electric NFL players of the 1960s and early 1970s, has died. He was 77 years old.
Sayers set a league record that first season by scoring 22 touchdowns — including a record-tying six in a single game — and gained 2,272 all-purpose yards. He was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year and would earn four Pro Bowl appearances and five first-team All-Pro selections in his first five seasons.
The greatness during Sayers’ relatively short run was undeniable, however. Sayers was the only player to make the NFL’s 75th anniversary team at two different positions, running back and kick returner. Only three other Pro Football Hall of Famers played fewer than Sayers’ 68 games. Sayers is the youngest player ever elected to the Hall of Fame.
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