If Gale Sayers was a Kansas City Chief...
Do the Chiefs have one or two more Super Bowl rings? And to be fair, then Chiefs running back Mike Garnett was pretty good too.
Blair Kerkhoff of The Kansas City Star wrote about Sayers last night after the Hall of Fame running back accepted the Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kansas City Sports Commission’s annual banquet.
"I signed a four-year contract with the Bears for $25,000 a year," Sayers said. "I thought (Hunt) would give me something better. He offered $27,500.
"I thought, ‘New league, no, I can’t do that.’ You didn’t know it was going to be a good league, so I decided to go with the Bears."
We don't talk enough about the players of the '60s, '70s and even the dark '80s around here. Part of that is that those years are before my time as a fan and another part that blog readers are generally younger than someone who may have witnessed those early years with a keen eye.
And that sounds like the birth of an off season post series right there. We can chronicle the rosters of the early years of the franchise. Anyone else game? At the very least, we'll learn a ton and have topics to discuss. It's the desert of the off season news, in sports in general after the NBA Finals ended two nights ago. There, I just decided. We'll start next week. If you have a player you specifically want to write about, shoot me an e-mail.
35 days until training camp starts. 48 days until the first preseason down will be played. And 79 days until the Chiefs take the field against the New England Patriots.
And to get your Friday morning started off well, take a few minutes, relax and watch these clips of Gale Sayers.
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This is an awesome idea Chris!
Zappa over at Mile High Report is a young(ish) guy who started doing writeups on old Broncos, and he didn’t know a thing about them. But the old timers came pouring out of the woodwork and relating their memories of those times and those players.
It’s a lot of fun to listen to them talk.
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by styg50 on Jun 20, 2008 8:57 AM CDT 0 recs
Good Idea
I like this idea. I’d probably be game for this.
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by bigknoxy on Jun 20, 2008 9:14 AM CDT 0 recs
Gotta Love When A List Of Great Players Starts With A Jayhawk
Sayers was definitely something…unbelieveable moves. If he hadn’t been built so tall and relatively skinny he’d have been…well, he’d have been Barry Sanders (also a guy from Kansas) :)
Good clip, Chris. I’m not sure how long it will be up, though, since NFL Films is pretty good about getting their stuff yanked from YouTube.
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by UCrawford on Jun 20, 2008 9:35 AM CDT 0 recs
What's the rule?
You can only show like 45 seconds of NFL highlights or something like that? I didn’t know if that applied to old tapes as well or if NFL films was a separate entity.
by primetime 07 on
Jun 20, 2008 9:42 AM CDT
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You're probably right
It’s only been up for a couple of weeks so far.
by Chris on
Jun 20, 2008 9:51 AM CDT
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hey chris
i’d like to do a write up on bobby bell if no one has volunteered yet
actually got to meet him and a few other chiefs HoFers last night at the KC Ambassadors pre-tournament dinner & auction. (Met and shook Len Dawsons hand too!)
have you seen my baseball?
by IISaiNtII on Jun 20, 2008 12:13 PM CDT 0 recs
Awesome
Great idea. Especially if we can keep getting videos to go along.
TOUCHDOWN! KAN-SAH-CITY!!!
by TheScootness on Jun 21, 2008 12:08 PM CDT 0 recs













