Taglines: They just might be the biggest bunch of losers that ever became winners.
Necessary Roughness movie storyline. 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.
Necessary Roughness is a 1991 American sport comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti, his final film. The film stars Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Loggia, and Harley Jane Kozak. Co-stars include Larry Miller, Sinbad, Jason Bateman, Kathy Ireland, Rob Schneider, and Fred 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.[2] (At the time the film was made, there was no Texas State University, but in 2003, Southwest Texas State University changed its name to Texas State University, nicknamed the Bobcats, which coincidentally was the “season opener” opponent of the fictional Texas State Armadillos.)
The once-powerful Armadillos are forced to start the season with a host of new coaches and players after the previous staff and all but one players are banned following a scandal. This predicament is based on the “death penalty” handed out to the Southern Methodist University football team for violations very similar to the ones found at the fictional Texas State.
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Directed by: Stan Dragoti
Starring: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak, Larry Miller, Sinbad, Fred Dalton Thompson, Rob Schneider, Kathy Ireland, Marcus Giamatti
Screenplay by: Rick Natkin, David Fuller
Production Design by: Paul Peters
Cinematography by: Peter Stein
Film Editing by: Steve Mirkovich. John Wright
Costume Design by: Dan Moore
Set Decoration by: Lynn Wolverton-Parker
Music by: Bill Conti
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: September 27, 1991
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