Joe Montana on Rudy

It's a movie, of course they embellished a few things for a more dramatic effect. If they told the real story it wouldn't have made as much of an impact on people.

As far as them carrying him off the field "as a joke" that probably is true, but I'm sure they were still happy for him that he got to make one play after all the hard work he put in to make it on the team.

Not sure why he's all of sudden saying this 17 years later. *beep* Joe Montana.

"Guns for show, knives for a pro."

Who peed in Joe's cheerios this morning?

Montana's upset that Hollywood hasn't made a movie about him.

I'm sure what he says is true about all players working hard, but Rudy had many other factors not on his side which made us root for him. (size, money, smarts, support from family)

My friend is a huge Montana fan too, he'll have to hear this.

If you've met Rudy for real (I have), you'd know why.

Chill out, Joe. You have 4 Super Bowl rings, Rudy only got two plays. Leave it alone.

MM

If a four-time Superbowl winner can only piss sour grapes over a guy who never even had much of a chance of getting into Norte Dame-du-Lac, much less making the walk-on team, my respect for him is now zero.

Get over it, Mr. Montana, and get a life. Your football glory days are over, and those as a mature adult have yet to begin. Millions of dollars do not a man make. And to think I used to admire you.

You're a sad wreck of a man who never grew up. I hope your sons fair better.

Didn't Montana charge people for his autograph in the 90's?


A movie on Montana would never work because he won. Underdog stories make the best movies.

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As the old saying goes, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." I go to the movies to be entertained. I don't think for a single second that any "true story" I have ever seen doesn't have a little (or a lot) of embellishing to make the story more entertaining, no matter if it's at the movies, on TV, or in a newspaper article. If you want the absolute truth to be told, good luck with that. Every story is according to to one telling it. Get twenty people to witness an event and they'll all tell you a different version of what happened.

Here is a partial transcript of the interview with Joe Montana:

Interviewer: Were you there when Rudy was there?

Montana: Yeah. It's a movie, remember. Not all of that is true.

Interviewer: What wasn't true?

Montana: Well, the crowd wasn't chanting. No one threw in their jerseys. He did get in the game. He got carried off [at the end of] the game. [...] Back then they tried to play someone at the end of [the season] that all the seniors could get in the last home game. The schedule was kind of set that way.
So he got in. He did get a sack. And then the guys carried him off, just playing around. I won't say it was a joke, but it was playing around. He worked his butt off to get where he was and to do the things he did. But not any harder than anyone else.

So Joe Montana didn't see it exactly the way it was told in the movie. So what, it was pretty close. He did get in the game, he did get a sack, and he did get carried off the field by his teammates. Close enough for me.