Rudy last game2/9/2024 ![]() I remember covering Falcons training camp in 2000, maybe, and there was an undrafted rookie free agent who veterans had taken to calling Rudy. ![]() But, here, two decades after its release, what sports fan doesn't understand a reference to Rudy? The movie itself didn't actually do that well – it was 69th that year in box office domestic gross (right between "Guilty as Sin" and "Much Ado About Nothing"). (He apparently still is in demand, 22 years after the movie's release.)īut, the other thing is, consider how much a part of sports culture the movie has become. Ruettiger himself wouldn't have become a sought-after motivational speaker. Presumably, we would never have heard of him. So what’s funny to me is, what if the fullback had just gotten a body on Ruettiger? The tackle blocked down on the defensive tackle on the play before, actually, so it might have been his assignment.īut the fullback didn’t account for him, which gave Ruettiger a free run at Tech’s quarterback, Rudy Allen. I spoke with Pepper Rodgers, the coach of that time, last week about it, and he concurred. ![]() Two, he was unblocked by the right tackle and then the fullback overran him.
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