{"id":39388,"date":"2017-01-25T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39388"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:17:51","slug":"famous-notre-dame-football-walk-rudy-joins-lds-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/famous-notre-dame-football-walk-rudy-joins-lds-church.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Famous Notre Dame football walk-on &#8216;Rudy&#8217; joins LDS Church&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39389\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/movie-poster-copy1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39389\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39389\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/01\/movie-poster-copy1-819x1024.jpg\" alt='\"Rudy\" poster with Sean Astin ' width=\"597\" height=\"746\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cRudy\u201d promotional poster (Wikimedia Commons fair use)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may recall the 1993 movie <em>Rudy<\/em>. \u00a0It was written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh, who had previously worked together on the 1986 film <em>Hoosiers<\/em>, and it starred Sean Astin, who subsequently went\u00a0on to play\u00a0(along with many other roles) Sam Gamgee in the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wikipedia article about it, <em>Rudy<\/em>\u00a0was the first movie that the administration of the University of Notre Dame\u00a0allowed to be shot on their campus since <em>Knut Rockne, All American<\/em> (starring, among others, Ronald Reagan)\u00a0in 1940. \u00a0In two 2005 ESPN polls,\u00a0<i>Rudy<\/i>\u00a0was named one of the best 25 sports movies of the previous quarter century. \u00a0(A panel of sports experts put it at #24, while ESPN.com users put it at\u00a0#4.) \u00a0And\u00a0it was ranked as the 54th-most inspiring film of all time in the American Film Institute\u2019s \u201cAFI 100 Years\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of which makes this story especially fun:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865671699\/Famous-Notre-Dame-football-walk-on-joins-LDS-Church.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865671699\/Famous-Notre-Dame-football-walk-on-joins-LDS-Church.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tyler Oakes for calling it to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Some of you may recall the 1993 movie Rudy. \u00a0It was written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh, who had previously worked together on the 1986 film Hoosiers, and it starred Sean Astin, who subsequently went\u00a0on to play\u00a0(along with many other roles) Sam Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 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