''Brian's Song'' is a 1971 MadeForTVMovie starring Billy Dee Williams, JamesCaan, and several members of the actual [[AmericanFootball Chicago Bears football team]]. Caan and Williams respectively play Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, two star running backs in college (Piccolo led the nation in rushing and scoring during his senior year) who are both rookies for the Bears and thus competing for the same position. Piccolo is a loud, goofy extrovert and Sayers very softspoken and reserved, but after a couple of pranks early in their career, they are asked to room together (since the team is going to room by position), and become the first white and black players in team history to share a room.

They end up becoming great friends even though Sayers is the star and Piccolo rarely plays. Then Sayers badly injures his leg and Piccolo puts up great numbers in his absence, while simultaneously visting Sayer to push him through rehab, knowing he himself will become a better player if he has to compete with a healthy, fully-recovered Sayers. With a dilemma over whom to play, coach George Halas decides to switch Piccolo to fullback, even though he's undersized for the position, and keep the speedier Sayers at halfback.

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''Brian's Song'' is a 1971 MadeForTVMovie starring Billy Dee Williams, JamesCaan, and several members of the actual [[AmericanFootball Chicago Bears football team]]. Caan and Williams respectively play Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, two star running backs in college (Piccolo led the nation in rushing and scoring during his senior year) who are both rookies for the Bears and thus competing for the same position. Piccolo is a loud, goofy extrovert and Sayers very softspoken and reserved, but after getting on each other's nerves with a couple of pranks early in their career, they are asked to room together (since the team is going to room by position), and become the first white and black players in team history to share a room.

They end up becoming great friends even though Sayers is the star and Piccolo rarely plays. Then Sayers badly injures his leg and Piccolo puts up great numbers in his absence, while simultaneously visting Sayers  constantly to push him through rehab, knowing he himself will become a better player if he has to compete with a healthy, fully-recovered Sayers. With a dilemma over whom to play, coach George Halas decides to switch Piccolo to fullback, even though he's undersized for the position, and keep the speedier Sayers at halfback, [[TakeAThirdOption so they can both start.]]

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