Necessary Roughness Page #7

Synopsis: Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule. With fewer players than most teams, the makeshift team must overcome obstacles that the best teams in the country couldn't deal with. Using a 34 year old quarterback, a female placekicker and a gang of misfits, Ed "Straight Arrow" Genero must take his team to play the number one Texas Colts.
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Director(s): Stan Dragoti
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
PG-13
Year:
1991
108 min
815 Views


l'm coming after you.|You'll eat that ball.

It's second down.

BIake, back to pass.

IncompIete pass, stopping the cIock|with just 19 seconds Ieft!

Third down,|BIake passes the baII to Sargie.

lncomplete pass, stopping the clock|with 1 4 seconds left!

The 'Dillos are so close,|but exhaustion taking its toll.

- They're not gonna do it.|- Time to try your play.

Quarterback option?|lt's a gimmick, it won't work.

Blake isn't through.|He's got juice left.

Popke, send it in!

- l'll be damned.|- How many timeouts?

- Three.|- Can we take them all now?

Listen up. You're hurt,|you're tired, you're bleeding.

l'm gonna make you a promise.

ln that end zone,|you won't feel pain. You hear?

- All right.|- Oh, yeah.

Here we go.|Split right, fake 28 sweep.

Rig's play. All right, let's do it.

On two. Ready?

It's fourth down,|this is the Iast pIay of the game.

Blue, 32! Blue, 32!

Set!

Hut! Hut!

BIake to Edison.|He's Iooking to pass.

He's got a man|down the Ieft sideIine! It's BIake!

It's a miracIe!|Touchdown, ArmadiIIos!

They can tie the score by kicking|or they can win with a conversion!

Let's see what they do.

- The tie or the win?|- Your call, Wally.

Coach, we got some people hurt.

Lucy, Banks, Popke, get over here!

The ArmadiIIos send in|the kicking team, Banks and Popke.

Now's not the time to make sure|everyone's pIayed. I haven't pIayed!

They're going for the tie.

What a moraI victory it wouId be|to tie the number one CoIts!

- l've never tried to block before.|- Popke...

...l don't care how, spit in his ear,|keep him off my ass!

Mr Blake. They'll never touch you.

The CoIts wiII come with everything|they've got to bIock this kick.

Block that kick! Block that kick!|Block that kick!

BIake takes the snap,|tips the baII. No! It's a fake!

I can't beIieve it!|They're going for the win!

Featherstone's doubIe-covered.

BIake can't find anyone to throw to.

There's an open man|in the end zone. It's CharIie Banks!

Set! Hut!

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