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...

• Michael London Productions
• Turner Network Television
• Jon Voight
• Gil Bellows
• Teri Polo
• Richard T. Jones
• Garcelle Beauvais
• George Eads
• Charles Malik Whitfield
• Lamont Johnson