Andrew Bryniarski, Andrew Lauer, Duane Davis

Aging former quarterback Paul Blake (Scott Bakula) registers at Texas State University hoping to realize his dream of playing college ball. But as luck would have it, the school's pigskin program just...( read more  read more... ) got hogtied for rules violations, and all the veterans were booted. Undeterred, Blake helps organize a scrappy squad of replacements -- including a distaff placekicker -- and, to everyone's shock, the team's fortunes begin to pick up.

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PG-13, 108 min.

Directed by: Stan Dragoti

Release Date: September 27, 1991

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DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001

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  • July 18, 2009
    This only gets a reasonable score cos of the cast. There's a great line up here of new and old faces. The film is the usual collection of sports cliches and very predictable, its fun but its been done many many times before. The NFL version of major league.
  • July 14, 2007
    A fairly run of the mill sports movie with all the cliches in place, but Bakula and Elizondo are always very likeable.
  • January 22, 2007
    pretty good flick, kathy ireland in her prime
  • December 3, 2006
    Not the best movie ever made, but definitely a must see, very good movie.
  • December 25, 2007
    Funny!
  • October 19, 2009
    Funny movie...And Katy Ireland is so so sexy"
  • February 22, 2009
    Pretty good, and funny :p worth seeing if u like American Football movies..
  • February 7, 2009
    Very funny movie from my child days. I havnt seen it years
  • January 31, 2009
    Pretty average college football movie. Funny seeing a young jason bateman playing the kind of nerddy character and rob schnider as the commentator. The thing it had going for it is it was easier to understand the game more then some other grid iron movies.
  • December 6, 2008
    graet sports movie and it has Kathy Ireland in it

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  • fairieofloki
    April 24, 2007
    A very good movie with a cast that has a lot of stars! Probably not very well know but it is fun to watch.

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