While I ate dinner today I turned on the television. On AMC was Rudy, starring Samwise Gamgee. In a pivitol scene Rudy’s former boss gives a great speech that saves him from quitting the team when he isn’t picked to dress for the last game. He reveals that he has seen “too many” Notre Dame games because he rode the bench for two seasons. Which would mean he was a student at Notre Dame all that time. Even if you didn’t finish your education at Notre Dame, if you were smart enough to last for two seasons/years how the hell would you end up being a janitor?
Sorry, I know I’m missing the point of the movie -but this is supposed to be a true story, right?
maybe he went to prison and when he got out no one would hire him. something tells me he didn’t go to Notre Dame, graduate and go straight to janitorial service…
Well, you can kill a guy, go to prison, and then get a job playing an inspirational janitor at Notre Dame… so I guess you’re right!
I was watching it too but that thought didn’t occur to me. Perhaps he got injured and had to stop playing. Thus, he lost his scholarship and couldn’t afford to continue his schooling without it. Why he became a janitor, who knows?
He said he quit because he thought the coach was racist, not because he hurt his foot. And actually he didn’t say he had a scholarship either. For the sake of argument though – let’s say he did lose a scholarship and drop out. When people drop out they usually still seek employment in their field of study – because that is what they want to do (unless they drop out because they realize they hate it – but that isn’t the case here). Does Notre Dame teach Janitorial Sciences?
Who expects the Spanish Inquisition?
‘Twas an evening in October, I’ll confess I wasn’t sober,
I was carting home a load with manly pride,
When my feet began to stutter and I fell into the gutter,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
Then I lay there in the gutter and my heart was all a-flutter,
Till a lady, passing by, did chance to say:
“You can tell a man that boozes by the company he chooses,”
Then the pig got up and slowly walked away.