At first, back up quarterback Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (Van Der Beek) is nowhere close to being a football star. He's perfectly content to stay on the bench and out of the win-at-all cost strategies of coach Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight). But when the starting quarterback is injured, Mox is in the game and in direct conflict with his hot-headed coach and girlfriend. Soon everyone in Mox's football-crazed community will realise there's not just a new star quarterback in town, there's a new kind of hero...