10/4-10/8 #3

One of my favorite movies of all time is Rudy. I like this movie because the theme deals with what I am all about. This movie deals a lot with hard work and football which are two things that I love. Rudy is about a young man who lived in Indiana and played high school football. He was an undersized kid, but he was still a starter on his high school team. He was not very athletic either, but he worked so hard that he created more opportunities for himself to succeed. This young man’s name was Dan Rudiker and his nickname was Rudy. He was not a great student, he usually averaged low 80’s for his grades and there was no way he would be accepted to Notre Dame which was where he wanted to go. Rudy had one friend that always told him he could make it in to Notre Dame just because he would work so hard to get there. Well one day Rudy’s friend died due to a fire at work so that inspired Rudy to finally go to Notre Dame. When he got there they sent him to Holy Cross which was a prep school for kids to go to get their grades up. If Rudy got his grades up to a certain point Notre Dame would accept him and then he would try to walk on the to the football team and accomplish his dream. It took Rudy a year and he still wasn’t accepted and then he had his last chance to get in to Notre Dame. It was his sophomore year and he had found out he got accepted. When he got accepted, he wasted no time and he went to the try outs and because of how hard he worked he made the team. Then, on the final home game of his senior year, Rudy got the opportunity to suit up and be on the sidelines for a game. Notre Dame was beating Georgia Tech pretty good though so all of the players on the team wanted Rudy to go in. One player started chanting “Rudy” and then the whole stadium started chanting his name. He finally got put in the game for a kickoff and one play on defense. He rose to the occasion as he earned a sack and he was the last player to this day to get carried off the field at Notre Dame. I think that this is a great movie and I just love how someone that worked so hard benefited from it.