Is Rudy a lame duck story?
 

I just got finished with my annual viewing of Rudy. I love the film dearly and it makes me blubber like a bitch every time I watch it.

But is it a lame duck story? Rudy got his ass pounded for months and endured untold amounts of humiliation only to dress for one game and play in one meaningless play.

Lame duck? Or heartwarmingly inspirational?

Poll forthcoming.

I vote heartwarming. Meaningless but heartwarming nonetheless.

Apparently, this thread is lame. Figures I would post on it. God GoChiefs...you can't sit on this side of the cafeteria anymore.

I want to read my Star Trek Encyclopedia anyway.

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I went with heart warming. He didn't get much, but he got what he always wanted; a chance to play for the Fighting Irish. It’s a great "no giving up" story.

Rudy makes you cry? Hahahaha.

Good Flick, great story.

It a little over the top but still a pretty good flick.

Also geting into a game for ND back then was a lot bigger deal that it is now. Probably would be more than geting a geting a sack in garbage time for KC.

I want to see the remake with Triumph the dog as Dan Devine.

I think you missed the point. The point is what he did when given the chance. If he goes in the one play he's been dreaming of all his life and gets pancaked, it's a lame duck story. If he goes in the one play he's been dreaming of all his life and sacks the fugging QB, it's a 'when opportunity knocks' story.

Man I lost so much money on that.
To this day I'm sure that QB was paid off, he didn't do shit to get away from Rudy.

That would've been a smart move on Rudy's part. For fifty bucks, he can tell his grandchildren that he made a sack at Notre Dame.



I wonder if, in a sequel, Rudy would suffer from depression and eventually sue Notre Dame, because he never got to play, foregoing a lucrative NFL career, and when he did get in, he had the highest sack-to-snap ratio of any defensive lineman in the history of college football.

Don't forget the part where he gets immortalized in a cult sports film. Pretty good payoff if you ask me.

The thing is that the real life Rudy campaigned for 16 years to get his story made into a movie.

It wasn't meaningless.

He got what he always wanted, to be included in the Notre Dame history books.

He not only lived his dream, but was immortalized in a movie. Shit, how cool is that?

The only other player for either team that suited up for that game that is universally remembered today is some guy named Montana.

He made ONE PLAY, and to this day, 25 years later, people still talk about it. He's got his own little slice of immortality that no one can ever take away.

How wrong is it that I consider the movie a little cheesy?

Most older movies sometimes are alittle cheesy. This is a great movie and sometimes alittle cheesy. A guy wants to play football for ND and never gets to suit up but takes a daily pounding just to suit up for one game and the crowd is chanting R-U-D-Y, he gets a sack on the 2 plays he was in (wasnt he in on kickoff too?) All those years of him trying were worth it to him. I say insperational because he earns the respect of a sports world because of it.

If memory serves me correctly; I think he was in on the kick off coverage and the play after that when he got the sack was the final play of the game.