Likable "Quantum Leap" TV star Scott Bakula (as Paul Blake) touches down in a leading feature film role. He's a 34-year-old high school star football hero who decided to tend the family farm after his father died. When the college Mr. Bakula failed to attend loses its football squad to scandal, honest coaches Hector Elizondo (as Ed Gennero) and Robert Loggia (as Wally "Rig" Riggendorf) recruit Bakula for the Texas State "Armadillos". Also making the cut is smarty-pants Sinbad (as Andre Krimm), rich kid Jason Bateman (as Jarvis Edison), and female kicker Kathy Ireland (as Lucy Draper).
No points for guessing which team wins the climactic big game. Bakula smokes cigarettes, but seems to have kept himself in excellent shape. This is noticed by journalism teacher Harley Jane Kozak (as Suzanne Carter), who gets her backfield in motion for Bakula. Maybe she will give her old crush and his team good grades. The story barely passes.
**** Necessary Roughness (9/27/91) Stan Dragoti ~ Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak
No points for guessing which team wins the climactic big game. Bakula smokes cigarettes, but seems to have kept himself in excellent shape. This is noticed by journalism teacher Harley Jane Kozak (as Suzanne Carter), who gets her backfield in motion for Bakula. Maybe she will give her old crush and his team good grades. The story barely passes.
**** Necessary Roughness (9/27/91) Stan Dragoti ~ Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak