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Louis Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 – June 16, 1970) was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) for four years.
Brian's Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the life of Brian Piccolo (), a Chicago Bears football player stricken with terminal cancer, focusing on his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams).
At the time of his death, he was the last surviving participant of the meeting that formed the NFL in 1920. His eldest daughter, Virginia Halas McCaskey , succeeded him as majority owner, and her son Michael McCaskey served as team president from 1983 to 1999 at which time the elder McCaskey was forced to fire her own son.
Cause of death: Complications from Parkinson's disease ... At the Emmys, he was up for a trophy for playing Brian Piccolo, the Chicago Bears player diagnosed with terminal cancer, in the 1971 TV ...
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The Brian Piccolo Award is an honor that is given to players of the Chicago Bears.The award is given to one rookie and one veteran per season who best exemplifies the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and sense of humor of the late Brian Piccolo, a running back for the Bears from 1966 until his untimely death from cancer on June 16, 1970, at age 26.
James Caan Completed Filming Mob Thriller 'Fast Charlie' Before His Death. ... Brian’s Song,” in which he played the dying football player Brian Piccolo alongside Billy Dee Williams as Piccolo ...
His friendship with Bears teammate Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970, inspired Sayers to write his autobiography, I Am Third, which in turn was the basis for the 1971 made-for-TV movie Brian's Song. Sayers was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977 at age 34 and remains the youngest person to have received the honor.