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On 2024-03-23 17:02:50 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said:

> James Caan had played high school and some college football before studying
> theater.

I believe he also played a little football in the fine Francis Ford 
Coppola-directed The Rain People.

> The practice sessions didn't look tough enough, so I suspect some of the
> "players" were actors and not football players, but there were genuine
> Chicago Bears as extras in the movie.
> 
> I read a little about what Piccolo went through with the cancer. It was
> far more gruesome than what was shown on television. It was in his lung
> but it wasn't lung cancer. The first surgery was treating cancers that
> had already metasticized throughout his body. He had a series of major
> surgeries and, essentially, didn't benefit from any of them.
> 
> The movie wasn't terribly clear on the passage of time but a couple of
> months had passed between several of the hospital scenes.

I have the remake of this they did in 2001, I haven't watched it since 
2019 so I can't remember if it was any more faithful than the TV 
version.