Ultimate underdog story

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2012)

This is a movie that I could watch 100 times and never once get tired of it, it's such a great David vs. Goliath movie. Rudy was a small guy who everyone told you're never going to play for Notre Dame and for good reason, he was 5'9" and weighed next to nothing. He had to fight just to get into Notre Dame as a student by going to Holy Cross for 2 years. Then once he got to ND he tried out for the football team as a walkon. With his absolute never giving up on any of the plays they let him participate in practice as a member of the scout team. But even with that it looked like he would never actually make it into a game. Rudy got coach Ara Parseghian to promise to let him suit up for a game for 1 game during his senior year. But during that offseason Parseghian retired and Dan Devine came in as the new head coach of ND. Devine didn't know about the deal he made with Rudy. Rudy had won himself over to the rest of the team and the rest of the team threatened to walk out if Rudy didn't get a chance to suit up for a game so Devine finally relented.