Gayle Sayers All Star College Throwback jersey- Kansas City Comets

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Posted on WHIO Classifieds - Over 4 weeks ago

This has never been worn. WHAT AN AWESOME CHRISTMAS PRESENT IT WOULD

MAKE! I have looked online and have not seen many of these jersey's

around. There have been a few selling in sports memorabillia shops

and they are selling from $200- $300.

This is a 3/4-sleeve length jersey made of a nylon polyester blend

will all names and numbers sewn on tackle twill. With 10 stars sewn

on each shoulder as well. Also a jock tag containing Gale's facsimile

on the lower left portion of the jersey.

From 1934-1976 a select number of the nations best Senior college

football players were invited to play in an exhibition game against

that years NFL Champions / Super Bowl Champions. In 1965 the

University of Kansas All-American running back "The Kansas Comet"

Gayle Sayers was selected to play in that game against the NFL

Champion Cleveland Browns. In all, 42 games were played between 1943

and 1976, with the professional teams holding the series edge by a

count of 31-9-2.

His friendship with teammate Brian Piccolo, and Piccolo's struggle

with the cancer that eventually resulted in his death, became the

subject of the legendary movie Brian's Song, and is what Sayers is

best known for. The movie, in which Sayers was portrayed by Billy Dee

Williams in the 1971 original, and by Mekhi Phifer in the 2001

remake, was adapted from Sayers' own telling of this story in his

1971 autobiography I Am Third.

A notable aspect of Sayers' friendship with Piccolo, a white man, and

the first film's depiction of their friendship, was its effect on

race relations. The first film was made in the wake of racial riots

and charges of discrimination across the nation. Sayers and Piccolo

were devoted friends and deeply respectful of and affectionate with

each other. Piccolo helped Sayers through rehabilitation after

injury, and Sayers was by Piccolo's side throughout his illness.

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