Audio from TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/08/joe-montana-rudy-ruttiger-movie-notre-dame-not-true-fake-football/Some say you don't mess with a good story. Some say you always tell the truth, no matter what. When it comes to the movie Rudy,Joe Montana belongs to the latter group, even if it does mess with the football lore of his college, Notre Dame.
Montana, on the Dan Patrick Show today, said the movie about Fighting Irish walkon Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger getting into the final game of the 1975 season got a few things wrong.
Like the part about the crowd chanting "Rudy" at game's end, in hopes he would get in. And also the part about coach Dan Devine letting Rudy suit up only after a parade of players came to his office and offered to give up their jerseys to Rudy.
"It's a movie, remember," Montana said. "Not all that's true . . . The crowd wasn't chanting. No one threw in their jerseys."
Montana said that at that time Notre Dame set its schedule so that all the seniors would be able to play in the final home game.
"He got in. He did get a sack," Montana said, while adding that the triumphant scene where Rudy gets carried off was an exaggeration.
"The guys carried him off, kind of playing around," Montana said. "I won't say it's a joke, but playing around."
But Montana did say Rudy's effort was genuine. "He worked his butt of to get where he was and do what he did."
He sounds like a bitter old man.
