{"id":44669,"date":"2022-04-20T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=44669"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T00:39:43","slug":"three-classic-college-football-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2022\/04\/20\/three-classic-college-football-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Classic College Football Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many classic movies that cover any part of sports. \u00a0You have the non-fiction serious ones that have come out. Then, there are the funnier ones. \u00a0This list in no order shows the top three movies. These are the ones I find the most interesting that are part of college football.<\/p>\n

Classic 1. Rudy<\/h3>\n

The first classic is Rudy<\/a>.\u00a0 It is one of the most recognizable stories in college football. \u00a0Based on a true story, it follows Daniel Ruettiger Jr<\/strong> or better known as “Rudy”. \u00a0The teachers in Rudy’s school think that he does not have the smarts to make it to a school like Notre Dame. Daniel, would like to start but if not, he would just love to have a chance, an opportunity to put on the Blue and Gold for the Fighting Irish. \u00a0His future seemed to not be with the Fighting Irish, but instead as a steelworker.\u00a0 While most think it’s impossible, one guy in Fortune<\/strong>, the grounds manager asserts that making the football team or not, the goal is to become smart and good in the classroom.<\/p>\n

As we know, Rudy made a big impact in the real world. \u00a0In 2005, he was a leader during the pep rally at Notre Dame along with Joe Montana<\/strong> and Tim Brown<\/strong> and even had an award called the Rudy Award. \u00a0Rudy shows the signs of confidence and never giving up on your dreams, even in the worse of times.<\/p>\n

2. We Are Marshall<\/h3>\n

Another classic non-fiction movie based on true events is We Are Marshall<\/a> which talks about the tragedy of the 1970-71 Marshall Thundering Herd Football team. \u00a0After a tough last-second 17 to 14 loss to East Carolina, the team was back on its way to campus. \u00a0However, during the trip back, there was a bad storm.\u00a0 The plane went down on the top of the hillside near the center of town. All 75 passengers on the team plane were killed in the crash, including 37 members of the Marshall University football team. Eight football coaches, including head coach Rick Tolley<\/strong>, athletic director Charlie Kautz<\/strong>, 25 boosters, and five flight crew members.<\/p>\n

The last game against Ohio was canceled and the program considered suspending operations for the future. \u00a0That is when Nate Ruffin,<\/strong> played by Anthony Mackie,<\/strong> leads a student rally for the university to keep the team going.<\/p>\n

The team hired Jack Lengyel<\/strong> as the head coach, but the team had trouble also finding players. Many who they scouted in high school were going to West Virginia or other schools. \u00a0Instead of having notes and technology back then, they wrote names on a chalkboard and had to mail letters in.\u00a0 The NCAA had rules against freshmen playing but Marshall needed them in order to have enough players. The community, even some reluctantly, rallied behind the renewal of the program. The Thundering Herd won only two games in that 1971 season but had a thrilling last-second win over Xavier. This movie showed ways of emotion and leadership.<\/p>\n

By 1972, the NCAA Board of Governors changed the rules, allowing freshmen to play varsity football and basketball. It is still known as the Marshall Rule.<\/p>\n

\u00a03. Waterboy<\/h3>\n

Finally, the last fan favorite and a shift in tone from two highly serious movies; You have to have comedy, why not with the fictional South Central Louisiana MudDogs? <\/a>\u00a0Who knew saying “Water sucks, Gatorade is better” could tick off one of your players so significantly that you suddenly become a contender. \u00a0Robert “Bobby” Boucher Jr<\/strong> is just a normal boy who loves being a waterboy for the MudDogs coached by Klein who’s played by Jerry Reed<\/strong>. \u00a0One day, Bobby has had enough of a player who has bullied him and beats him to nearly a pulp.<\/p>\n

Klein<\/strong> puts him on the team, hoping this move helps the MudDogs. \u00a0Bobby’s mom however tells him about the evil of “fooseball” as she says, and he has to keep it a secret. \u00a0With some tick in his find and his imagination its someone talking bad to him or water, Bobby is a force to be reckoned with. \u00a0That is until it’s found out that he never finished high school at South Lafayette (A fake school) and turned out, he was actually home-schooled.\u00a0 This made him ineligible and in order to play, he had to pass an exam. \u00a0During this time, his mother explains to Bobby that his father actually never died from dehydration, but that he actually left him and the family. \u00a0Bobby became the leader after that not only for his family but for the team.<\/p>\n

Classic Conclusion<\/h3>\n

Just like the previous two movies,\u00a0 it ends on a high note as on the final play, the MudDogs run a halfback pass with Bobby as the running back. \u00a0Boucher throws it up with a man wide open in the end zone and a thirty-point comeback, as they won 30 to 27. \u00a0Adam Sandler<\/strong> would go on to star in another football movie in 2005 called the Longest Yard, but his first is still an all time great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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