Paul Blake is a 34-year-old farmer who was once a star high-school football player, one of the best quarterbacks in Texas. Paul was forced to drop out of sight when his father died, leaving Paul with the family farm to run. Now, after a 16-year absence, he's lured back to football by his former coach, Wally "Rig" Riggendorf. Rig has recently been hired as assistant coach to head coach Ed Gennero, who has been hired by Texas State University to turn around the Texas State Armadillos -- a team that was placed on probation for corruption, and university president Carver Purcell wants results as soon as possible. The team that Gennero and Rig assemble includes a military fanatic who admires General Schwarzkopf, a physics instructor, a swift martial-arts champ named Eric "Samorai" Hansen, Andre Krimm, and a female kicker named Lucy Draper. On the field, Paul does his best to get himself back into shape, while he has to overcome the awkwardness he feels about attending college classes at his age. And Paul finds himself attracted to journalism professor Suzanne Carter. Paul, Gennero, also have to deal with Dean Phillip Elias, who wants to scrap the university's football program, and the Armadillos are out to beat the almost impossible odds of winning at least one game this season.

When Paul is looking for his room, a shot shows Sargie and Samurai fighting in their room ~ one of the walls of that room has a poster of The Hunt for Red October (1990) on it, produced by this movie's producer, Mace Neufeld.

[a racquetball that Suzanne hits ricochets and hits Paul in the head]


Suzanne Carter:
Oh my God, I'm sorry. Are you okay?


Paul Blake:
No, actually. I just got hit in the head by a racquetball.

Continuity: Krimm's name on his helmet when he is at try-outs is completely unreadable before he hits the sled and then is in perfect block lettering after hitting the sled.