I'm not crying you're crying.
An excellent sports film and the ultimate buddy film, it's hard to believe this was a "made for TV" movie. When it set the ratings record at that time they released it in theaters abroad and even a few here in the states.
It's a miracle we even got the two main actors in their roles. Gayle Sayers actually wanted to play himself but he was still an active player so his schedule wouldn't allow it. In stepped Billy Dee Williams. And James Caan initially turned down the role in order to focus on theatrical films but eventually decided he liked the script so much he'd do it.
Weird how times have changed. The N word is used quite a few times in this movie yet in real life Brian Piccolo actually died of testicular cancer which is only alluded to in the film because "testicule" was a censored word in the early seventies. 60 years later you'd never hear the N word on television yet you can say testicules or balls or family jewels or gonads (etc).
An excellent sports film and the ultimate buddy film, it's hard to believe this was a "made for TV" movie. When it set the ratings record at that time they released it in theaters abroad and even a few here in the states.
It's a miracle we even got the two main actors in their roles. Gayle Sayers actually wanted to play himself but he was still an active player so his schedule wouldn't allow it. In stepped Billy Dee Williams. And James Caan initially turned down the role in order to focus on theatrical films but eventually decided he liked the script so much he'd do it.
Weird how times have changed. The N word is used quite a few times in this movie yet in real life Brian Piccolo actually died of testicular cancer which is only alluded to in the film because "testicule" was a censored word in the early seventies. 60 years later you'd never hear the N word on television yet you can say testicules or balls or family jewels or gonads (etc).