What the life of Gale Sayers taught us is there isn’t as much time as we think.
There never was enough time for linebackers to fill the hole before Sayers was gone with the breeze.
There wasn’t enough time for Sayers to do what he could do better than anyone – run with a football.
Sayers didn’t have enough time to savor memories when dementia took the colors from his life in the last seven years.
Of course, Sayers didn’t need time the way most do. He could do more with a moment than most could with a lifetime.
Sayers passed away Wednesday at the age of 77. His legend will, however, live in perpetuity by the grace of NFL Films, and stories the old tell the young.
When someone first called him, “The Kansas Comet,” they must have known something. Comets burn brightly, but not for long. “The Kansas Comet” was a fitting nickname, but not the nickname remembered by those closest to him…
