(Video) 73 year old man made $50,000 puck shot but no one is paying

"All right everybody, let's hear it for Tropical Time and let's hear it for Bush Bavarian. If you're going to drink a beer, you might as well make it Bush Bavarian.''

That's how Jackie Moon, played by Will Ferrell in the movie Semi-Pro, made the introduction.

You know how Ferrell movies are just too ridiculous? How they could never come true?

Think again.

"Ladies and Gentlemen,'' he said. "I want you to welcome this man that's going to attempt the impossible, the $10,000 free throw from the other side of the court. The moonshot.''

That was the movie, about a fictional and fledgling team from the old ABA, running ridiculous stunts and promotions to try to stay alive.

This is real life: On Saturday night, the Indianapolis Ice of the United States Hockey League held its own impossible-shot promotion. Shoot the puck the length of the ice into the far net, which was blocked off entirely except for a three-inch slot at the bottom.

Richard Marsh, a 73-year old retiree who still plays in an amateur hockey league, had the shot. It was for $50,000, and he said beforehand that if he made it, he would donate the whole thing to St. Vincent's Heart Center of Indiana, which fixed his heart in 2007.

In the movie, the basketball fan's name was Dukes. He needed the money because he was unemployed.

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"Well, we've got an especially dirty hippy here down on the court trying to sink an impossible shot.'' That's what the radio guy said. In the movie.

Repeat: the movie.

Back to real life, Marsh fired the puck, and you know what happened. He made it. The crowd went nuts. He celebrated.

Fifty-thousand big ones for Marsh, Mr. Charitable, and, thus, the hospital.

So what happened?

Let's go back to the movie. The hippie made the shot, too, and celebrated, too.

And then Moon (Ferrell) frantically stepped up to the official and said, "Father Pat, he stepped on the line, he stepped on the line.''

No, no, it was legal, the official said.

"No, no,'' Ferrell said. "He stepped on the line. You were looking at it.''

Jackie, he made the shot.

"Who the hell has $10,000?''

Relax, the official said. The beer company will pay it.

""They're not really a sponsor,'' Moon said, panicking. "It just sounded professional.''

Back to real life again. The hockey league announced that the insurance company responsible for giving the $50,000 to Marsh had disallowed the shot.

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