#1: Gale Sayers scores 6 TDs vs. 49ers (1965)
To this day football historians are trying to make sense of this game. If ever there was a singular performance that gave birth to a legend, it was that day at Wrigley Field. Rookie running back Gale Sayers, battling rain-soaked conditions and a fairly decent San Francisco 49ers team, proceeded to put on the single greatest individual game in NFL history. It didn’t matter what anybody did. Every time Sayers touched the football he was a threat to score. That’s proven by the fact he scored four of the six touchdowns rushing, one receiving and one on a punt return.
Mike Ditka famously said years later, “Everybody was playing on a muddy field except him.”
