His like will never be seen again.” NFL Icons: Gale Sayers, Friday, February 7, 10/9c, MGM+ This article first appeared on TV Insider and was syndicated with permission.

He was 77. Nicknamed “The Kansas Comet” and considered among the best open-field runners the game has ever seen, Sayers died Wednesday, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

As Steve Sabol, late cofounder of NFL Films, puts it in this hour of NFL Icons, “We have a library of 100 million feet of football film dating back to 1894. The most thrilling footage in that ...