Hey Rudy, was on tonight

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Is that movie accurate? I know he got one play and got a sack, but did it all unfold the way it did in the movie?

Also, does the soundtrack include any of that killer College Band music, I love that shit.

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1. there were changes but reasonably accurate for the most part

See the following:
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/merron/021202.html

In Reel Life: Devine is not only reluctant to let Rudy suit up, but is visibly angry when, at the end of the Tech game, Rudy goes in to play.
In Real Life: Devine took a bad rap he didn't deserve. "The coach (Devine) hollered, 'Has everyone been in?' " remembered former assistant coach George Kelly. "Someone tapped me and said, 'Rudy,' and I put him in."

In his autobiography, "Simply Devine," he wrote, "I told Angelo (Pizzo) that I would do anything to help Rudy, including playing the heavy. I didn't realize I would be such a heavy," and added that he had planned to have Rudy suit up and play all along.

Pizzo responded to Devine's criticism: "I told Devine, 'You're going to be the bad guy in a sense, but I'm not going to make you evil. You're going to be an obstacle to Rudy playing.' And he said, 'That's fine.' In a recent conversation, I reminded him of this, and he said, 'I didn't think I'd be the worst guy in the movie.' "

So how did Rudy finally get to play? Some players simply mentioned Rudy's situation to an assistant coach, who relayed the message to Devine, who allowed Rudy to suit up.

In Reel Life: At the end of the film, it says, "Since 1975, no other Notre Dame player has been carried off the field."
In Real Life: "That's BS," Bob Golic, a teammate and friend of Rudy's, told the L.A. Times. "In 1978, I got a concussion and they carried me off on a stretcher."

In Reel Life: The Notre Dame players go nuts when Rudy gets in the game and makes a tackle.
In Real Life: "Oh, the guys just went crazy on the sideline," said Joe Montana on Charles Kuralt's "Sunday Morning" show in December 1992. "I mean, it was like we had won the national championship almost. I mean, that's how -- how excited everybody was for him."