The 45-minute episode features rare photos and ... even greater if Sayers’ career wasn’t derailed by injuries. The episode also discusses his relationship with Brian Piccolo which inspired ...

On Tuesday, the Chicago Bears announced the winners of the annual Brian Piccolo Awards. The awards go to one rookie and one ...

"I figured they needed help," Piccolo said. "Fortunately for Bears fans and unfortunately for me, they got it -- from Gale Sayers." James Caan (l) portrayed Brian Piccolo in 1971's "Brian's Song." ...

The Bears recognized one veteran (T.J. Edwards) and one rookie (Rome Odunze) as recipients for the 2025 Brian Piccolo Award.

Piccolo’s story and friendship with Gale Sayers were later adapted for the big screen in the award-winning film Brian’s Song. At the time of Piccolo’s death, embryonal cell carcinoma was ...

Gale Sayers does ... At the awards presentation, Sayers dedicated his prize to his friend and teammate, Brian Piccolo, who was dying of cancer. The story of his friendship with Piccolo was ...

Mr. Sayers, immortalized in the television movie "Brian's Song," plans to open the Gale Sayers Center in early 2008 as a free after-school program for children ages 8 to 12. "The main objective is ...

The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease.