We have lost three icons in sports this last week or so!
Gale Sayers who was from Omaha was a great runner for the Bears. I was a Bears fan when I was a kid. Born in the 50's Gale Sayers was the best when I was a kid. You know we didn't get many channels when I was a kid but there was always a game from the "Black and Blue" Division on TV on Sunday. The Bears, Packers, Vikings, and Lions were what we watched. Usually just one game was on. Oh once in a while we saw YA Tittle of the Giants or Sonny Jurgeson of the Redskins, or maybe even Roman Gabriel of the Rams but not often.
Gale Sayers was in the three best running backs I have ever seen and there have been a bunch. Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, and Barry Sanders are my best. There have been some very athletic running backs lately but not the best running backs. Gale Sayers was special!!! We will miss him but those memories won't go away!
Bob Gibson! He completely dominated in baseball. There was Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale of the Dodgers but Bob Gibson!!! WOW! I remember as a kid I would go to David Neill's house at noon during the World Series so we could watch a couple of innings during our lunch hour. Gibson struck out 17 or 18 batters in one game and I think that is still a record. Radio was big back then and most of the Tv sets were black and white but it was so fun to watch Bob Gibson and he was from OMAHA too!
My favorite team was the Yankees back then and their best picture was Whitey Ford! He won 70% of his games during his career. Pretty darn good. He had a strong supporting cast with Elston Howard, Yogi Berra, Joe Pepitone, Moose Skowron, Bobby Richardson, Tony Kubek, Clete Boyer, Tom Tresh, Mickey Mantle, and Roger Maris. Love the Yankees and love Whitey Ford!
Such Memories.................
