College football (of the American variety) is the name of the game in this dour sports drama. The director of the baseball comedy, Major League, David S Ward, has less success with a pitch of a different kind and can't engender any great audience empathy with the gridiron jocks of Eastern State University as they prepare to go to any lengths to win the Big Game. The bruising on-field action is moderately exciting (once you realise the ball is incidental) but the players are boorish and, let's face it, if you don't like them, you're not going to cheer for them. James Caan is top-billed as the coach who has to turn his team's fortunes around, but he fails to make any new yardage in a role seen in a countless movies before. A fumbled effort.

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