The love for that movie fascinates me

It is heavily fictionalized, the real Rudy is generally acknowledged to be an a-hole, and he spent at least a decade trying to sell his minimally interesting story to Hollywood

I was surprised to learn it was such a favorite among Generation XBox, I guess b/c it was run so much on cable TV in the '90s

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Posted by therick711

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Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:11 pm to Kafka

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The love for that movie fascinates me

It's one of the few movies that celebrates the bully team with no sense of sportsmanship that runs up the score to further embarrass the overmatched underdog. It would be like making Rocky 4, except the Russian whips his arse, then takes a break and let's his wife slap Rocky in the late rounds, before polishing him off with a knockout blow.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 3/21/17 at 6:04 pm to Kafka

I'm sure every school has a similar story to walk-ons as Notre Dame.

It's a good movie but a total PR piece for Notre Dame.

I love when the groundskeeper says:

"And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years."

In Rudy's big year...1975, Notre Dame finsihed #17 in the nation.

Even the previous year, they finished #5.

So for two years...not really the best team in the land.

This post was edited on 3/21/17 at 6:05 pm

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Posted by TbirdSpur2010

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Posted on 3/21/17 at 8:23 pm to Kafka

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The love for that movie fascinates me

It is heavily fictionalized, the real Rudy is generally acknowledged to be an a-hole, and he spent at least a decade trying to sell his minimally interesting story to Hollywood

frick Rudy and notre dame in general, tbh.

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