football head injuries.
Were the director and writer prescient with Caan's "condition"? On a side note, Ronald Stein said that Coppola wanted the music to mock Duval's antics but Stein didn't want to take a cheap shot at the police and got his way. 45 years later we know the awful toil of the game of football and that most cops are like the rest of us- flawed and highly imperfect.
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