1964: The selection of Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1965 NFL draft remains the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning sports writer Red Smith once wrote about Gale Sayers' running style: "He wasn't a bruiser like Jimmy Brown, but he could slice through the middle like a warm knife through ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Giant bobbleheads of two Chicago Bears legends are joining the celebration of the team's 100th year. Seven-foot-tall bobbleheads of Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers are now on display at ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who made his mark as one of the NFL’s best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendship with a Chicago Bears teammate with ...

Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, who made his mark as one of the NFL’s best all-purpose running backs and was later celebrated for his enduring friendship with a Chicago Bears teammate with cancer, has died ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Bears and all-around NFL legend Dick Butkus has died, the team confirmed Thursday. Richard Marvin Butkus, a Hall of Fame linebacker who played for the Bears from 1965 until ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, “The Most Feared Man in the Game.” Opponents who ...

Chicago Bears legend Gale Sayers has passed away at the age of 77, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “All those who love the game of football mourn the loss of one of the greatest to ever ...

The NFL world is mourning the loss of Chicago Bears legend Dick Butkus, who passed away Thursday at the age of 80. Butkus is considered one of the greatest Bears players and one of the best ...

Sayers followed that by being voted an All-Pro during the first five of his seven NFL seasons (1965-71). But he was stuck on a handful of middling-to-bad Bears teams and, like Dick Butkus, another ...

A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated's 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, "The Most Feared Man in the Game." Opponents who wound up on the ...