SportsCentury: Brian Piccolo | Michael Husain
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Segment of documentary Executive Produced, co-written and co-directed by Michael Husain for ESPN's SportsCentury. Chicago Bear Brian Piccolo is best known as the character depicted by James Caan in "Brian's Song", but he was much more. Includes interviews with Caan, Gale Sayers, Dick Butkus, Bob Costas and many more.
This movie is a timeless movie that does what few do today 50 years later ! The Sayers courageous award speech is as gut wrenching as it gets ! Thankyou for this post for a GREAT MOVIE !
I remember seeing this movie when it came out in 1971 at age 15. Almost 50 years later, I still cry whenever I watch it.😪 One of the saddest movies that I have ever seen.
Me too. I think it's affected just about everyone that way.
@J M Yes. The song always got to me.
I cried when I first saw Brian’s Song and I am during this video too.
I know, it's a rough one to get through
I don't know anything about football. I can barely tell you the difference between a first down and a touchdown. But this movie makes me cry like a baby. You would think I knew them. It just hurts your heart so much to see these two become friends and then lose one to the nastiness of cancer.
I was named after my grandfather and Brian Piccolo. I have had some big shoes to fill with determination, kindness, humor and integrity. I am honored to try to walk in their footsteps.
The movie NEVER needed that remake. It was perfectly timeless.
EJubett Generally, re-makes are a disappointment.
I agree...
what remake?
You're so right and the 2 lead actors for the remake weren't even close in charisma, talent or presence to Billy Dee Williams or James Caan.
We need a film like this today.
I cry every time I watch it. he was a beautiful man with a strong spirit.
I'm 57. I went to the Bears training camp in the early 70s. 1972. 2 years after Piccolo died. Very emotional
Congratulations NFL and all pro sports. You have managed to divide the fans when there was nothing better than this to bring all together.
Fucking A !!!!
Well said!
Best Movie ever made 😢
After 40 years, I just watched Brians Song for the first time, yes I was very misty eyed. Excellent movie, cast,script....one of the best sporting movies I have ever seen. How they were able to help one another though major set back all the way to the end was so inspirational to be a better person in any walk of life.
as a young teen i saw this movie and cried like a baby!! Could never see it again.
James Caan was superb in this film, my most favorite film ever. The value of friendship is so intense.
Everyone should see this film. WE need Unity. Love One Another, Do Not Destroy.
I am sure it was therapeutic for Brian's teammates, coaches and family to see the film and equally sure it helped them deal with the situation.
Yeah but they lived it we didn't so that had to make it harder on them.
@@patrickgray5633 One of my favorite scenes, is when Brian signs the Wake Forrest Fight Song and Gayle puts some of the food in the chair and Piccolo sits in it.
I’m one of those who cries every time I see it.
Paul Hornung keeping it real lol
The Golden Boy...my first boyhood sports hero.
Dumb as a rock.
Brian and Gale together again after 50 years I'm bawling because it's real life I know these guy's as the world knows them. RIP Boy's ❣️ I am fourth. Love you guy's forever 💟
Great movie, great story. RIP to all who are gone.
Every time I watch it tears
rest in peace gale, the greatest running back in the history of the game
Kansas Comet --- Breakaway Bear !
@@dace938 6
Sanders MAY have been had he chosen not to quit. Gale, conversely, returned to the game after overcoming an horrific knee injury in a time (mid 60's) when ACL/MCL reconstructive surgery was primitive at best.
Gale isn't dead, Brian is.
I saw this when in High school. Next day, everybody was talking about it. The biggest made-for-tv movie of its time. Everyone praised it, and rightly so.
This is by far my favorite sportscentury.
Just had my son watch it for the first time
I just came across the theme to the movie, “Brian’s Song,” and it brought back a memory I haven’t thought about for a long time. I actually knew and dated a former teammate of Brian Piccolo & Gale Sayers when I lived in Shreveport, LA. I can’t even remember the man’s name but I remember that he had played for the Chicago Bears when Brian & Gale played & he knew them.
Great movie I watched with my mom when I was a little boy made me cry and I was little and I didn't even understand it but I understand sadness
Great Movie. We ALL can learn from this story. Thank you for the post.
i cried watching this.
Every Time I Think of Brain I can't help from welling up in tears.
I saw the movie by mistake I was turning channels (I'm from Baltimore born in 1972) nothing was on and watched this movie glad I watched it great movie didn't know it was a TV movie till on here
As a 13/14 year old boy playing Flanker on my Jr H.S. football team when this movie aired, the only thing I remember about the movie was the part where the coaches called Gale Sayers into to talk to him to tell him the bad news about Piccolo and Gale knew something was up and said "so what's going on, are you moving me to Flanker or something?"...always struck me as "hey I play Flanker and it is a damn good position". I also did not cry. I was brought up on a farm and knew better then to cry over a movie and my Dad had already told me when I was younger the only times men cry is if a relative dies or your dog dies. Having said all that I did very much enjoy the movie and it did tug at my heart strings, I just don't cry over movies about people I never even met (a Ph.D. Aerospace engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company.
Lori, you out there someplace? I remember your uncle Brian from his playing days. I was a Packer Fan. I remember you from College and Church's Chicken. I have missed the kind of friend you were to me for 40 years now. This is just a message in a bottle. I'm in Kansas and alone Just came across this and thought of you. Godspeed Lori. Ed...
Damn woundnt be cool if she sees this?
You have to give kudos to the writer William Blinn & the late director Buzz Kulik for creating a screen gem.Ironically the movie was made & produced by Screen Gems a TV subsidiary of Columbia Pictures.
Had Brian Piccolo developed his cancer just 5 years later, he probably would have survived due to advances in the treatment of his form of cancer that occurred in the early 70s. In 1969, his cancer had a 5% survival rate. Today, it is 96-98%
Alot has been said about Sayers becoming bitter after his passing but I think it's due to the fact that he most likely would've beaten the disease had he been diagnosed later. He lost a close friend when Brian was only 26 years old.
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote that all true stories end in death, Well, his is a true story."
U stole that line from the movie shame on you
@@coreyrowland6843 ?...I was clearly quoting from the movie as every fan of the movie would have immediately recognized.
We need that today ...From Chicago Lives Hawaii
Really Love Brian's Song I Know how old was when Brian died he was 26 years old
❤ Still 😢 today.
Makes me too sad it's a great movie but Cryer not that it's bad to cry for something thats good I'm tear just watch this the heart of a champion brian piccolo 1971-2023 never forget
I had a best friend growing up. I could'nt spell his name, even today I would have trouble. " Piccuirrio " . we were that close. I simply called him " Picc " because we were as close as Sayers and Piccolo. It was an honour to play hockey with him, I never told him that, but somehow I think he knew. I'd love to hear from Picc. I hope he sees this and tries to contact me somehow.
I saw this in Cleveland Ohio when I was 16 years old. Up until this movie I didn’t know the black/white thing was still and issue. What a great story about (just plain old) friendship I thought.
It was 50 years ago today that he died. God Bless Him. It never fails to make me cry. I do not know why they needed to remake it either. The movie 49 years later still wholes up and who can forget Gale Sayers speech spoken so wonderfully by Billy Dee Williams. James Caan was excellent. Of all the roles he has done and he is an terrific actor, Brian Song is my favorite and always will be..
James Caan had the one-two punch of Brian's Song and The Godfather, but it's ironic that he shot The Godfather first, then a month or two later filmed Brian's Song.
Gale Sayers was a gentleman, a great guy. I work at The Bellagio Hotel in Vegas, one night I was working overtime, really early in the morning, around 5:30am. I was returning to my roulette game, eagerly waiting my exit, I was a little tired. As I was approaching my pit, I noticed a guy dressed a little like Payne Stewart, clubs next to him playing a slot machine. I did a double take, It was Gale Sayers, ready to hit the links. I blurted, "have a good game Mr. Sayers". He blurted out, " Yeahhh". Looked like and acted like a complete gentleman. Man could he play the game. I know, Brian and him were bros, well before the race hustlers and bigots took control of civil rights movement, they have fostered division and tribalism, this eventually leads to civil war. Count me out !!!!!
Love James Cain!
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Holy Cow! Paul Hornung said the infamous f-word when referring to the “light in the loafer actors.” Wow! I can’t believe he got away with it. Lol
My Dad was born in Chicago and my Grandfather is buried in Chicago!
Da bears is just plan history with the best of the best players in the game
Paul Hornung 😆 🤣
Think Paul Hornung and Brian were both ladies men.
I was also 10, when I saw this movie, and I cry every time. I saw the remake, not even in the same league (pun intended) I have Butkus's Jersey, I hope to get Brian's and Gale's as well.
A truly wonderful movie. The cast could not have been better. Williams and Caan were superb. Shelley Fabre was terrific as Piccolo's wife. And even though it's not funny, Hornung made me chuckle with the comment about less than manly actors playing athletes in movies. Guess he didn't like Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig. I wish he had told that to Gary Cooper when he was still alive. That might have made for an interesting tussle. Then we could have seen who was more manly-Hornung or Gary Cooper.
Back when, where I was from, most people weren't obsessed with talking about race......we just lived with each other. Played with each other. Worked with each other. Loved each other. Sometimes hated each other. Married each other. More was done then was said. I think that was better.
RIP PIC RIP James Caan
I watched the movie when I was a kid when it 1st came out. I never thought about the race factor of the movie. I just saw it as 2 men who were friends.
Brain's Song
Spade Piccolo lmaooo
Charles Bidwell, whom was "hired" by George Halas to be President in charge of operations of the Chicago Bears (whom eventually purchased the Chicago Cardinals) was a errand boy for All Capone during prohibition, who also skimmed off the top of his own race track. So, if the story is true about Halas' discovery of Willie Galimore while betting on horses at Bidwell's race track, perhaps that's the reason the Bears have just plain stunk since'63 (with the exception of the Ditka era of the 80's), Halas couldn't afford to pay his players because he gambled all the proceeds away. Also, concerning the film "Brian's Song", George Halas retired after the '67 season, meaning; he wasn't HC of the Bears in '68, or '69 for that matter, as depicted in the film. If the film is based on "A Short Season"...then it can only be assumed that the book is just as tragically flawed as the film itself.
@Montana Roots ...getting a first name wrong doesn't mean I'm wrong...a Bidwill is a Bidwill, stop denying history, moron
@Montana Roots ...next time, link my name, coward
@Montana Roots There, I corrected his first name, now dispute the facts, which you won't because you can't...so go learn some history, dimwit.
3:35 😂
The only other actor who could well have portrayed Brian Piccolo if James Caan turned down the part is Burt Reynolds. Burt Reynolds without his moustache at that time in 1971 looked very similar in appearance to Brian Piccolo.
I read somewhere that Lou Gosset wa actually the first choice to play Gale Sayers, but before they started filming the movie he tore his Achilles tendon while working out and was unable to work. They went with BIlly Dee, who was the understudy. I think this worked much better because BDW bears a much stronger resemblance to Sayers than Lou.
I think Burt was already a star at that time. The Burt of Longest Yard and Deliverance I could see him as Brian.
The remake is a far cry (get it?) from this '71 original.
Bruh Paul Hourning 😂😂
I always felt that a part of sayers became bitter towards life from this experience
Well, I couldn't blame him because he entered football during the civil rights movement, his close friend died from a form of cancer that now has a high rate of recovery. He wanted Brian to survive and thrive.
Oops this is a true story"
They have a movie on netflix
What...? They do?! I searched it up on kids and adults and it never came up! What do we write to watch the movie?
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What could Favre have to say???? Otherwise a great clip..
The remake was disgusting PC bullshit. It doesn’t count
What a disappointing video. I watched it to learn more about Brian Piccolo, but it was just a rehash of the film. I love "Brian's Song," but this is just the same old stuff about Caan and Billy Dee... not Pic.
This documentary is just as distorted and historically inaccurate as the film itself is.
Boy I bet your a blast at partys
@@jodavey ...I know the correct version of history, boy.
olofpalme63 what’s the correct version ?
Hmmmm.... I thought I heard the greatest Bear of all time, Dick Butkus, who played with Sayers and Brian that it was "so close to reality " and well done. Same with Iron Mike Ditka. So .... are you saying these men are lying?
@@LordofDublin4 Nah. This guy knows more than Piccolo's teammates and was obviously more privy to what really happened.than they were.
Brian and Gale and now James and Dick are all together again. RIP Boy's 🏈
RIP Gale Sayers
Him and Brian are now reunited
Brian's Song is now and will always be the best sports movie. It will bring ANYONE to tears!
Edward Anthony Leone it's a balling your eyes period.
@@patrickgray5633 As well as the best made for TV Movie ever.
I don't consider it so much a sports movie, but a movie about love and the strength and courage of the human spirit. They were both great at their sport but greater at humanity. RIP guys.
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We need more movie like this. RIP Brian and RIP Gale. Brian and Gale are reunited in heaven.
I remember watching this movie with my mother on tv. My morher was not into sports but watched this movie and we were both crying at the end of it. This movie will go down as one of if not the Greatest sports movies of all time. It certainly deserved the 6 Emmys it received. R.I.P. BRIAN PICCOLO.
I still cry even today when I see this movie.
I remember the first time I saw it, I must have cried for hours. I still cry.
Probably the first movie I remember crying at, and every time since. "I love Brian Piccolo" can make me cry on the spot.
Second greatest 🏈 movie of all-time...The greatest is GUS 1976. Lol 😆
Great testimonial to 2 great human beings
Jack Warden looked a bit like Halas, he played Warren Beatty's coach in Heaven can Wait. The Bears where pretty bad in that era. The Bears, Giants and a few years later Packers fell to the bottom of the NFL.
Great sports movie.
Watch or better read the book A shinning Season
I read that one and I also read I amThird but part of it years later, I decided to pick it up and finish it! Both excellent books.
Brian piccolo and gale sayers together again take Kansas comet a tearful 😢 farewell I am fourth love you guys forever
Too bad the story is mostly fiction. Sayers and Brian werent really even friends…..roommates and teammates, but not friends off the field
They showed us the movie in the cafeteria, 6th grade, 1973? Every dude was staring at his shoes by the end.
I still cry.....I'm 63(never let your filling's go)
The music alone makes anyone cry.
Love that movie
They should have figured how to uncurl James Caan's hair though!!