RIP Gale Sayers

Dead of age 77.

 

Also Road Warrior Animal John Laurinaitis at age 60.

 

Have only seen NFL Films clips of Sayers. Seemed like a cross between Barry Sanders skills and Devin Hester's skills. Had he played later on he probably would have been able to make a full recovery from that knee injury that ended his career, as players do today. Too bad for him his talent was wasted on bad Bears teams.

I imagine the Bears will wear a helmet decal or jersey patch of the #40 for the rest of the season.

 

He was a strider and seemed to change directions in full stride which was amazing.

 

Sayers was one of the most effortless runners I ever watched. He looked like was gliding through every step he took.

 

Sayers still holds the record for TDs in a game which he set his rookie season

 

Never saw him play live, well before my time, but rest in peace, good man. Time to watch Brian's song.

 

I was very fortunate to see him in person.

Poetry in motion.

 

Never saw him in person only on film he looked pretty awesome RIP

 

Me too, like the ones where its so wet and muddy everyones just trying to keep their feet except Sayers who's gliding around playing a different game. Contrast that to the part in Hard Knocks when they practise at SoFi Stadium for the first time and they're talking about how the field feels so fast its like a running track. I can only imagine what Sayers would do to the league if he was playing today. Probably go off for 2k every year.

RIP Legend.

 

Oh how sad. I read that he died from complications from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The article went on to day that Sayer joins a growing list of football players who developed dementia and died of brain damage.

I also read an article about Paul Tagliabue’s role in overseeing a decade-long cover-up of the N.F.L.’s destruction of the brains of its players. It's from an older article but if you're interested in reading it I'll paste it here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/...n=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=collection

 

I happen to know (or know of) multiple people who have died as a result of dementia or alzheimer's. None of them even played football.

 

I understand that Lyman. I'm referring to the numbers of football players who have.

 

That's not what you inferred.

 

You're being unreasonable, and (I'm assuming) purposefully obtuse.

Babyfan's point of discussion was legitimate, and though I don't have anything to add to the discussion, I don't see a flaw in how she proposed it.

 

What did I infer Lyman?

 

Babyfan's point of discussion hinged on a biased article she attached from a hack, New York Times "journalist" who never had a favorable opinion of anything NFL related. I just don't see where an article about an alleged coverup by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has a place in a thread obviously posted to celebrate the career of one of the best ever running backs to play the game.

Point: Sayers played from 1965 - 1971. Tagliabue didn't become commissioner until 1989.

 

This is your third post, and the first time you have brought any of that up.

Point: You're being unreasonable, and (I'm no longer assuming) purposefully obtuse.

 

Actually, it was my fourth. There won't be a sixth.

 

I'm not sure what is driving this Lyman. I'm interested in the correlation between concussions and dementia/Alzheimer disease. The NFL did not recognize concussion problems until 2009.

I'm not a fan of CNN but here are some researched stats they provide. https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/us/nfl-concussions-fast-facts/index.html

This is interesting too.

According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE.[1]