Brian's Song - The Truth

The 1971 movie "Brian's Song" shows the relationship between Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and how Brian worked with Gale to get his knee rehabilitated after his 1968 injury. How he brought a knee strenghtening machine to Gale's house and pushed him to rebuild his knee.

So much for Hollywood. The movie is based on Sayers' book "I Am Third" and if you read it, it plainly tells the story of how Dick Woit spent a great deal of time working with Gale Sayers to rehabilitate his knee at the Lawson YMCA (check out Chapter 3 of the book). No Brian Piccolo involved. The truth is Brian and Gale were Chicago Bears teammates who barely spoke to one another on or off the football field and only became friends when Brian was diagnosed with cancer and was dying.

They have resurrected the movie "Brian's Song" with a remake to be shown on December 2nd 2001 and let's hope Hollywood finally has the courage to tell what really happened and spare us the phony best friends routine. Come to think of it, they probably won't.

12/01/01 ( 1412 )
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