Rudy Ruettiger Rudy's Message VHS Video Tape NEW Sealed Motivational Speaker

This listing is for Rudy Ruettiger Rudy's Message VHS Video Tape NEW Sealed.  

Actors: Rudy Ruettiger

Run time: ~ 1 hour

MPAA rating: ‎G (General Audiences)

Media Format: Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC

Release date: 1999

Studio: Rudy International

For nine years, Rudy's never-say-die philosophy was tested as he tackled Hollywood to make a move about his life. In 1993, his second impossible dream came true as Tri-Star Pictures released the blockbuster hit film "Rudy". It has since inspired millions worldwide. His clients include companies and organizations such as MCI, Motorola, New York Life, Sprint, BellSouth, Amway, U.S. Steel, Sears, NFL Seminars, Chevron, Glaxo-Wellcome and Texaco. Rudy fills the room with overwhelming positive energy. Rudy's audience feels his words. His heartwarming and uplifting messages ignite heads of state, corporate executives, salesmen, lawyers, doctors, blue-collar workers, athletes, educators and students to DREAM BIG AND NEVER QUIT. Today he is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the United States.

Daniel Eugene Ruettiger (born August 23, 1948) is an American motivational speaker and author who played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. His early life and career at Notre Dame were the inspiration for the 1993 film Rudy. Daniel Eugene Ruettiger (nicknamed "Rudy") was born on August 23, 1948, in Joliet, Illinois. He was the third of 14 children and grew up with his German American family. Ruettiger did not excel scholastically, at least in part due to dyslexia. He attended Joliet Catholic High School and played for locally famous football coach Gordie Gillespie. Ruettiger joined the United States Navy after high school, serving as a yeoman on a communications command ship for two years; he then worked in a power plant for two years. Ruettiger applied to Notre Dame and was rejected due to his low high school grades. He enrolled and attended nearby Holy Cross College, and after two years was accepted as a student at Notre Dame after many tries, in the fall of 1974. It was during his time studying at Holy Cross that Ruettiger discovered he had dyslexia. Ruettiger harbored a dream to play for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, despite being undersized at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) and 165 lb (75 kg). Head coach Ara Parseghian encouraged walk-on players from the student body. For example, Notre Dame's 1969 starting center, Mike Oriard, was a walk-on who was eventually nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and earned an NFL contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. After tremendous hard work, Ruettiger earned a place on the Notre Dame scout team, a squad that helps the varsity team practice for games. Merv Johnson was the coach who was instrumental in keeping Ruettiger on as a scout-team player. After the 1974 season, Notre Dame coach Parseghian stepped down and former Green Bay Packers coach Dan Devine was named head coach. In Ruettiger's last opportunity to play for Notre Dame at home, Devine put him into a game as defensive end against Georgia Tech on November 8, 1975. In the movie Rudy, Devine is given a somewhat antagonistic role, not wanting Ruettiger to dress for his last game. However, in the real life scenario, it was Devine who came up with the idea to dress Ruettiger. During the final home game of Ruettiger's senior season with the Fighting Irish, he recorded a sack, which is all his Notre Dame stat line has shown. Ruettiger actually played for three plays: a kickoff, an incomplete pass, and on the third play (the game's final play), he sacked Georgia Tech quarterback Rudy Allen. Ruettiger was carried off the field by his teammates following the game, the first player in Notre Dame history to be honored in this way. Only one other player has received this recognition: Marc Edwards in 1995. Ruettiger is a motivational speaker and author.

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