I was born a Notre Dame fan, not just a Notre Dame Football fan, but with an innate, unwavering love of the University of Notre Dame. I have no idea why, I'm from State College, PA and I'm not even Catholic, lol. I have no relatives who attended UND, and have known only a handful of people who went to school there. Regardless, I have something in my brain and my heart that is forever attached to the University of Notre Dame...So I get it. I get all of it. And I've yet to not tear-up and feel my heart fill with pride and love whenever I have watched "Rudy', all 500 times.
However, it doesn't matter whether you're a Notre Dame fan or not, or have any attachment to UND. It doesn't matter if you hate Notre Dame more than anything in the world, especially Notre Dame Football. You still need to watch this movie. Everyone in the world needs to watch "Rudy", if for no other reason than to realize what we all really can do if we want it badly enough and we really and truly do EVERYTHING we can do to achieve it. No excuses, no waiting and watching it slip through our fingertips, no letting ANYONE tell us what we can and cannot do.
And I really do hope that ever since "Rudy" was made that every Notre Dame athletic team coach has shown their players the movie at the beginning of each year, because it's the best way to make people understand just how special The University of Notre Dame is, and how lucky they are to be getting their educations there and playing a sport they love to play there, for the Fighting Irish. Because while ALL Notre Dame athletes no doubt know how special playing for and attending the University of Notre Dame is in the sense that they are attending and playing a sport for one of the most elite colleges in the world and in history, unless they were born and grew-up a Notre Dame fan and felt it in their blood, then they don't understand or fell that "feeling" about Notre Dame. "Rudy" brings that "feeling" out into the light and to the mainstream. And all Notre Dame athletes and students alike need to be shown just how lucky they really are to be there and be a part of the ND Nation...