I broke a vow last week and watched Rudy. It took me three days.
What follows is my walk through the shadow of death.
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Rudy begins with a pickup football game between five boys in a Midwestern mill town during a time when American factory smoke didn’t come from homeless people seeking refuge from the harsh realities of life.
The smallest boy, a young Daniel E. "Rudy" Ruettiger, is the only one wearing a helmet—a Notre Dame one, natch.