ON THIS DATE (43 YEARS AGO) November 30, 1971 - The made-for-TV film Brians Song, starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams in the story about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his friendship with teammate Gayle Sayers, premiered as an ABC Movie of the Week. Brians Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the details of the life of Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan), a Wake Forest University football player stricken with terminal cancer after turning pro, told through his friendship with Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams), who helps him through the difficult struggle. Many critics have called the movie one of, if not the finest telefilm ever made. The movie is based on Sayers account of his friendship with Piccolo and coping with Piccolos illness in Sayers autobiography, I Am Third. The film was written by veteran screenwriter William Blinn, whose script, one Dallas television critic called, highly restrained, steering clear of any overt sentimentality [yet conveying] the genuine affection the two men felt so deeply for each other.
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