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'Rudy' is an inspirational true story and mostly a work of fiction

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

While Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson take a much-needed holiday break, the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast brings back its favorite summer tradition: the football movie review.This episode covers the 1993 college football classic Rudy, starring Sean Astin in the title role and including a pair of breakout performances from the previously unknown Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn. Charles & Terez break down the overwhelming obstacles the movie puts in front of Rudy and the absurd amount of creative license the movie takes with the story in order to tug at the heart-strings -- most of it untrue.Don't worry, the guys will be back after the holiday weekend to analyze the Cam Newton news and anything else that happens in the world of the NFL.Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Yes, sir, yes sir, Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior NFL writer

0:16.4

Terres Paler. Here my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson. And Charles, our producer Brett Rader is joining us or our

0:27.0

favorite summer movie staple which is the movie review podcast and first so of all, I love how Brett feels like, listen, I got to get involved in this thing.

0:36.0

These are so much fun.

0:38.0

What do you think?

0:39.0

Like, were you surprised at all, Brett was like, you know what?

0:42.0

I got to be a part of this one, guys. No, no, not at all, Brett was like, you know what, I got to be a part of this one, guys.

0:44.0

No, no, not at all.

0:45.0

I mean, this is particularly given that we're doing Rudy of all movies, the one that I can only say this experience for me was like you know growing up with something an idea

0:57.8

about something in my life becoming an adult and then going back later and looking at it and being like,

1:04.0

ewh.

1:05.0

This is terrible.

1:07.0

Like this is way worse than I thought it was,

1:10.0

noticing all these things, all these lies, all the fictionalization the as the rose-colored glasses are

1:18.4

lifted off of youth it was an it was an interesting experience going back and really learning the truth and not so truthful parts of Rudy

1:29.3

Now Charles you were 14 when this movie came out, right?

1:33.0

13?

1:34.0

I was, let me think so it came in and out in 93, right?

1:38.0

93. 16, yeah.

1:40.0

15, 15, 16.

1:41.0

So I was 9, which means this movie, this movie was actually a foundational part of my childhood in some ways.

1:48.0

So yeah, this was an interesting experience. Brett, how old were you when this movie came?

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