Interesting Recruiting Tidbit
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That and the fact it’s mostly fake and real life Rudy is an ass.
I dated a girl in college that was from Lisle, Illinois where Rudy teaches and is the wrestling coach. Her brother always described him as a huge “glory days POS” and a giant *******. The movie was a joke in that area when it came out as Rudy’s version of his time at ND that he told students changed quickly to match the movie once it was being made.
That was back around 2000 so who knows if the mans changed but at that time he was a very unlikeable and vulgar person with a huge temper towards kids.
Yeah, I haven't heard a lot of great things about the guy. A couple of my friends are life long ND fans and they basically said that Rudy has leeched off the University ever since the movie came out.
He would supposedly try to have paid autograph signings at high school events right after the movie. Like I said this was around 2000 so hopefully the guy has changed. But those that know him say he’s a joke.
I was a young teenager when that movie came out and I loved it at the time. It was a deflating moment when I heard about the true Rudy and how much BS the movie was. I’ve watched it since then and knowing what I know about him the movie just seems pathetic.
I won't. You just can't top perfection.
As bad as most made-for-tv movies were back then, how did they get a cast of James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden and Shelley Fabares (Ok, maybe not her since she is probably most famous for being in three different Elvis movies)?
Here's a more light-hearted quote from the movie:
It's all so pointless, Gayle. I mean, I know perfectly well what's wrong with me. Gayle, I uh... I think I'm pregnant.
Joe Montana was evidently ND's QB at the time. I heard an interview with him about it and he barely remembers the guy and really had to be prompted to remember the event at all.
Interesting tid-bit: the team they lost that championship to was Dallas Carter, the team that Ennis Haywood would play for just a few years later.
I read that interview. Joe basically said there was no one chanting and Rudy was carried off the field more as a joke than anything else.
Montana is also a Huge D-bag. Its why the best QB of all time can only get sketchers commercials and Terry Bradshaw/Peyton Manning/Dan Marino/Brett Favre get movie roles.
Montana side bar...we lived in the same neighborhood as Montana when he played in KC. We were having a pot luck type of neighborhood get together. Anyway, his wife contacted my neighbors who were putting it on and they said Joe would show up for 100k. That is the type of dude he is. His kids also got wait listed at the school they wanted to send them which we all found very funny.
Montana side bar...we lived in the same neighborhood as Montana when he played in KC. We were having a pot luck type of neighborhood get together. Anyway, his wife contacted my neighbors who were putting it on and they said Joe would show up for 100k. That is the type of dude he is. His kids also got wait listed at the school they wanted to send them which we all found very funny.
For some reason, I've met two people from Allen, Texas in the last few months. My reaction to meeting each of them was the same, "Hey, the football stadium place."
It has since been passed twice. Katy's new stadium and I forget the other, another Houston area I think. Allen is still biggest in DFW.
Yep. It's the slow motion reactions and the song they used to play over it. I think it's Explosions in the Sky but I could be wrong.
