American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...
Acting
Jon Voight fully committed to screaming about oysters
Writing
The premise that food poisoning decides a Super Bowl run
Director
Rob Lieberman
Jon Voight
Coach Chuck Dichter
Gil Bellows
Dan Heller
Teri Polo
Connie Heller
Richard T. Jones
Gerry Fullerton
Garcelle Beauvais
Larissa Fullerton
George Eads
Tommy Baker
Charles Malik Whitfield
Lenny Voyles
Lamont Johnson
Ernie Weathers
Ingo Neuhaus
Randy Johnson
Shawn Woods
Curtis Hooks
Evan Parke
Jackie Mumms
Nick von Esmarch
Tim Hobbs
Goûchy Boy
Carl "Big Daddy" Harris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on TNT as part of their early-2000s push into original movies, back when cable networks were desperate for cheap sports content.
The 'regular guy becomes pro athlete' fantasy peaked in this era—this is basically 'Rudy' if Rudy had a desk job and zero dreams.
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