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Joy Piccolo O’ Connell and her role as a wife while her husband was battling cancer

TFIGLOBAL News Desk by TFIGLOBAL News Desk
October 8, 2021
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Joy Piccolo O’ Connell and her role as a wife while her husband was battling cancer and strong Mother of three daughters. The death of Brain Piccolo at the height of his NFL career as a runback made an entire nation cry with the release of Brian’s song.

Movie Brain’s song

The film captures Piccolo’s good-natured fight and his ruthless devotion to family and friends. The Bears hired him as a free agent and spent his rookie season on a training team in 1965 without changing shirts for matches. He died at the age of 26 from an aggressive form of testicular germ cell cancer first diagnosed after it had spread to the chest cavity. Based on the autobiography of Gale Sayers, Brian’s Song tells the story of Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers’ friendship and their future together.

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Joy Piccolo O’ Connell, wife of Late Brain Piccolo

Brain Piccolo’s wife, Joy, was his high school sweetheart, a cheerleader at Central Catholic. They were married three days before he signed with the Bears and they have three daughters: Lori, Traci and Kristi. The oldest, Lori, was four and a half years old when her father died.

Joy Piccolo remarried three years after Brian’s death and she and husband Rick O’Connell continue to work tirelessly for the foundation. She is president of the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Foundation, founded after the death of 26-year-old Piccolo on June 16, 1970. He said the remake of Brian’s Song should help the Brian Piccolo Cancer Research Foundation which has raised more than $ 5 million.

Joy Piccolo O’Connell helped celebrate disabled program five hours ago Joy Piccolo O’Connell is best known as the widow of Chicago Bears who is on Brian Piccolo.

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Piccolo Cancer and Piccolo foundation for cancer

Piccolo and his wife Joy became increasingly skeptical of the optimism of their doctors but felt powerless to ask questions. The two became close in 1968 when Piccolo selflessly supported Sayers’ attempt to recover from the first of several knee injuries that would ultimately shorten his career.

After Brian’s death, George Halas and McCaskey were the first major supporters of the Piccolo Foundation; he organized the first golf trip and participated in other initiatives on Brian’s behalf ; even now, the Chicago Bears continue to participate in the Piccolo Fund, providing a bronze award to the novice and (since 1992) veteran who “shows the best courage, dedication, teamwork, dedication and a sense of humor” from Piccolo.

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Brian Piccolo and Gail Sayers

Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 — June 16, 1970) was a professional American football player who played four years for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Piccolo, the same age, was a white, hard-core chatterbox and prankster who competed with Sayers for playing time in Central Catholic.

When Chicago Bears teammates Gail Sayers and Brian Piccolo became roommates in 1967, when the first NFL players from different colors lived on the street, it didn’t seem like a good idea – it was Halas who paid all of Brian’s medical bills and family expenses – it was Halas who fulfilled the remainder of Piccolo’s contract – Halas paid for the funeral – and Halas established college funds for Lori, Thracians – and Christie. Jack Hannah steps on the porch of Poinsettia Heights and squints at the house where Brian Piccolo grew up, but his gaze moves quickly outside the yellow square house with its dusty blue shutters.

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