Leonard Goldberg discusses the TV movie "Brian's Song"- EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

I had to post this.  My favorite movie of all time is Brian's Song.   It is the story of the barrier breaking friendship of Chicago Bear running backs Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo.  
As in the late 60s, Sayers was the superstar running back of the NFL.  When he suffered an season ending injury, it was huge.  He was replaced by a running back with what I thought was a funny sounding name, Brian Piccolo.  Piccolo proved to be a good replacement, but until the movie was shown, it was not known that Piccolo had helped to nurse Sayers back to health and that Piccolo and Sayers were roommates, said to be the first interracial roommates in the NFL.  This was played up in the movie, but perhaps forgotten because of Piccolo's tragic death of Cancer at only 26.