Joe Montana Chills the ‘Rudy’ Legend

Dan Patrick asked former Notre Dame quarterback Joe Montana about the story of Rudy Ruettiger story, of course immortalized by the film ‘Rudy’:

Montana, who played on the 1975 Fighting Irish squad with Ruettiger — appeared on DirecTV’s Dan Patrick Show this morning and said of the flick, “It’s a movie remember … not all that’s true.”

After a dismissive sigh, Montana undermined some of the main storylines in the movie saying, “The crowd wasn’t chanting … nobody threw in their jerseys.”

Montana acknowledged that the real Rudy did play in the final home game … and did get a sack — but stated that when the players carried Rudy off the field, they were “kinda playin’ around … I won’t say as a joke, but playing around.”

Joe finished, “He worked his butt off to get where he was … but not any harder than anybody else.”

Here’s the audio clip of Montana debunking the Rudy myth:

It’s not the first time I’ve heard many a liberty was taken with the Rudy story.

(HT: Ira at WTKA for pointing out the clip.)