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Necessary Roughness (1991) is a comedy starring Scott Bakula and Sinbad. The film was directed by Stan Dragoti who has also directed the movies Mr. Mom
, She's Out of Control
, and The Man With One Red Shoe. In addition to Bakula and Sinbad, Necessary Roughness has an additional cast of Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Larry Miller, and Harley Jane Kozak. Appearances are also made in the film by Kathy Ireland, Rob Schneider, and Fred Dalton Thompson.

The film touches on an up and coming season at the fictional higher learning institution of Texas State University and its football team nicknamed the Fightin' Armadillos. They are starting the season with a host of new coaches and players.

The film was released in September of 1991 and went on to gross over twenty million dollars at the box office. During one scene, when the team takes part in a scrimmage game, cameos are made by several NFL players. These players included Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Earl Campbell, Dick Butkus, Ben Davidson, Tony Dorsett, Ed 'Too Tall' Jones, Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, and Randy White. The film also has some cameo appearances from Chris Berman and Evander Holyfield.

The film was shot at various locations in Texas. Azle, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton were the primary location used for filming. The University of North Texas in Denton was a major location for filming football and college scenes.

Synopsis

Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must start from scratch to build a new team after a tradition of winning. A new coaching staff is hired to take on the job of building the team up from nothing to something. The new coaching staff has nothing to assist them in building the new team as no athletic scholarships are available so they must look for volunteers from the student body. Along with this they must worry about Dean Elias, who wants the team to fail so he can scrap it. A number of student volunteers are soon assembled and soon the coaches have a makeshift team in place.

There are not enough members of the team to have offense and defense so they are forced to play iron-man football. The team lacks experience and talent in all areas of the team but there are a few areas where the severely need assistance. Quarterback, placekicker, and defensive line are all areas where they need to improve. Coach Rig (Loggia) recruits a high school star named Paul Blake (Bakula) who never attended college due to his father's death. He convinces him to enroll and play for the team.

Blake arrives on campus and catches everyone's attention due to his age, he especially catches the attention of Professor Carter (Kozak). Paul then recruits a college professor named Andre Krimm (Sinbad) who is also enrolled at the school and eligible to play for the team. Blake convinces him to join and he is positioned on the defensive line. Even with the new members the team continues to lose games and chemistry between the players.

Professor Carter ends up telling Blake how she knows him. It turns out that Carter's ex-boyfriend was a high school star but Blake and his team humiliated her boyfriend's team in a high school title game. The two begin a relationship which Dean Elias also opposes.

Coach Rig makes one more recruiting move to secure a kicker. He shocks everybody by selecting Lucy Draper (Ireland) from the school's soccer team. When she is brought on board the team has its first taste of success, a 3-3 tie with Kansas. After this Paul Blake quits the team after an argument with the coaches but is talked into coming back after speaking with a teammate. With the coaches and players on the same page the team marches on to play the number one team in the country, the Texas Colts.

They head into the game as huge underdogs but fight in the game and keep it close. After a TD, it's a one point game with a few seconds left when the team decides to try and win it all with a two-point conversion. They fake a field goal and attempt to pass for the two. Blake scrambles around and finally finds Edison in the end zone and passes him the ball. He catches the ball and Texas State wins the game.

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