![]() ![]() The movie is based on Sayers's account of his friendship with Piccolo and coping with Piccolo's illness in Sayers's 1970 autobiography, I Am Third. A 2005 readers' poll taken by Entertainment Weekly ranked Brian's Song seventh in its list of the top "guy-cry" films. Critics have called the movie one of the finest television movies ever made. The production was such a success on ABC that it was later shown in theaters by Columbia Pictures with a major premiere in Chicago however, it was soon withdrawn for lack of business. The film chronicles the evolution of their friendship, ending with Piccolo's death in 1970. ![]() Piccolo's and Sayers's sharply differing temperaments and racial backgrounds made them unlikely to become friends but they did, becoming the first interracial roommates in the history of the National Football League. ![]() Brian's Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the life of Brian Piccolo ( James Caan), a Chicago Bears football player stricken with terminal cancer after turning pro in 1965, told through his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams).
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