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Mick, I shot a doc about Charlie over a seven year period. Only time in 51 years that I worked pro bono as a favor to friends. We started out at a spring practice when C could still walk. The project ends when he finally wins a CCS title on an improbable block of a FG by a kid who played at SJS later. The family's dedication to care for Charlie was one of the most magnificent stories that I've been involved with. There are a couple of villains too but we did not press the issue too far, it just wasn't one of those films.

The producers kept in contact with Lucy Wedemeyer until the end. We were even invited to dinner at their house years later as C wanted to "Cook Hawaiian." He laid out a menu orally (only his family could understand) and we spent some quality time. I got to speak with Lucy at Charlie's funeral, a beautiful affair at the SJ Shark's home.

Called "One More Season." It's the actual story of the Wedemeyers' life post diagnosis. I think it is a better way to tell the story than the TV movie with a miscast Charlie (Michael Nouri). I don't know if the piece is available online.

One More Season is a fantastic documentary - an extremely powerful and moving portrait of an amazing man and wife, with that dramatic finish in the CCS D-1 championship game to boot. I taped it back in the VHS days and watched it several times. It's available in its entirety on YouTube now, highly recommended.

His son Kale Wedemeyer appears in the film as a kid; he went on to play football at Cal and is now a clinical instructor in Anesthesiology at Stanford Medical School.

One of the stars on that Los Gatos team was Jeff Blaisdell, who played some WR and punted for Stanford in the late 1980s.

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Mick, I shot a doc about Charlie over a seven year period. Only time in 51 years that I worked pro bono as a favor to friends. We started out at a spring practice when C could still walk. The project ends when he finally wins a CCS title on an improbable block of a FG by a kid who played at SJS later. The family's dedication to care for Charlie was one of the most magnificent stories that I've been involved with. There are a couple of villains too but we did not press the issue too far, it just wasn't one of those films.

The producers kept in contact with Lucy Wedemeyer until the end. We were even invited to dinner at their house years later as C wanted to "Cook Hawaiian." He laid out a menu orally (only his family could understand) and we spent some quality time. I got to speak with Lucy at Charlie's funeral, a beautiful affair at the SJ Shark's home.

Called "One More Season." It's the actual story of the Wedemeyers' life post diagnosis. I think it is a better way to tell the story than the TV movie with a miscast Charlie (Michael Nouri). I don't know if the piece is available online.

One More Season is a fantastic documentary - an extremely powerful and moving portrait of an amazing man and wife, with that dramatic finish in the CCS D-1 championship game to boot. I taped it back in the VHS days and watched it several times. It's available in its entirety on YouTube now, highly recommended.

His son Kale Wedemeyer appears in the film as a kid; he went on to play football at Cal and is now a clinical instructor in Anesthesiology at Stanford Medical School.

One of the stars on that Los Gatos team was Jeff Blaisdell, who played some WR and punted for Stanford in the late 1980s.