Hoops hero who inspired 'Hoosiers' now serves legendarily large Indiana-style fried pork sandwiches

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Bobby Plump's last shot for tiny Milan High School was a 17-foot jumper that captured the 1954 Indiana state basketball championship. 

The victory by the Milan Indians, 70 years ago today, inspired the David-beats-Goliath 1986 Hollywood sports flick "Hoosiers."

Plump’s Last Shot is the family's slam-dunk sports bar in Indianapolis that today serves giant breaded fried pork tenderloin sandwiches, an Indiana culinary tradition. 

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Plump's fried tenderloin has inspired mouthwatering praise from coast to coast. One national outlet named it one of the five best regional sandwiches in North America. 

The hardwood hero behind both Hoosier legends is now 87 years old, alive and well.

The famous oversized pork tenderloin sandwich at Plump's Last Shot in Indianapolis, Indiana, is shown here. The sports bar was founded by Indiana high school basketball legend Bobby Plump. He hit the winning shot in the 1954 state title game that inspired the film "Hoosiers." (Courtesy Plump's Last Shot)

Plump, a longtime insurance executive, still goes to the office only two blocks from his family’s restaurant in the Broad Ripple neighborhood of Indianapolis. 

His son Jonathan runs the operation.

"People in neighboring states occasionally have breaded tenderloin, but it’s really an Indiana thing," Plump told Fox News Digital in a telephone interview. 

"People in neighboring states occasionally have breaded tenderloin, but it’s really an Indiana thing."

"Everybody knows about tenderloin in Indiana. The thing is here, we don’t put the word ‘pork’ in front of it. We