Breaking: Bears legend Gale Sayers passes away at age 77
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🗓️ 23 September 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news from the athletic. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Adam Hogue from the Hogan Johns podcast on The Athletic with breaking news and sad news this morning |
| 0:13.8 | as Bears legend and pro football hall of famer Gail Say, has passed away at the age of 77. |
| 0:22.8 | Adam Johns is here with us as well. |
| 0:25.6 | John's sad news this morning. |
| 0:27.8 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a legend of legends for the Chicago Bears. |
| 0:33.6 | I think if you ask anyone affiliated with the team, you learn how much Gail Sayers meant |
| 0:40.8 | as a person, as a player, as a man. It just means so much with this organization. So definitely |
| 0:46.7 | a sad day for the Chicago Bears franchise. The Kansas Comet who really, if you look at the landscape |
| 0:54.0 | of all sports history, had one of the |
| 0:57.9 | most remarkable short careers that any athlete has ever had. Unfortunately, injuries |
| 1:05.2 | kept his career down to seven seasons with the Bears and it's really more like five when you look at |
| 1:12.1 | how injured he was the last two. But this news this morning made me go out and get the, |
| 1:18.3 | pull the bear's scrapbook out. The Athletics, Dan Pompeii, had a huge part in writing. |
| 1:25.4 | And just looking at some of the career of Gail Sayers, and of course the legendary performance |
| 1:31.1 | on December 12th, 1965, on what is described in the book as a muddy surface at Wrigley |
| 1:39.2 | Field, 336 all-purpose yards and six touchdowns for Gail Sayers that day as the Bears beat the 49ers, 61 to 20. |
| 1:51.9 | Sayers took nine handoffs in the game, Johns. |
| 1:54.8 | He scored on four of them. |
| 1:56.5 | He caught two passes. |
| 1:58.5 | He scored on one of them. |
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