generationofswine I could never actually throw a baseball well. My body just never exactly grasped the mechanics to do it like I should and after playing a game my elbow was swollen and throbbing.Football, on the other hand, I was good at. Throwing a spiral was no problem for me, nor was making the ball go where I wanted it to, and, let's face it, any fool can read can read an offense like an open book, especially in high school.Defense was always more fun to play. Freshman year when I was on offense...hated it. A year later when I got moved to the big "D" I actually enjoyed playing...So I played football...but I watched baseball.Even now that I'm old, I could still care less if the Bears win or lose...the Cubs on the other hand, well, that is an obsession.So when a football movie comes out, I don't exactly flock to the theaters to see it and afterwards, I don't buy it on DVD and watch it over and over again to get me through the long winters.But there are a few good ones."Any Given Sunday" is just brilliant. There is a lot to watch in that movie from the start to the finish, from the inside of the NFL to the game itself."Necessary Roughness" is a totally different beast. It approaches the movie like, well, like it's a baseball movie. It does it with a sense of humor and not a steroidal rage. It's not as concerned about being tough as it is about getting laughs.It all makes for a fun movie to watch. The jokes are awesome, especially when they target football itself, as a sport. And when they do so, its a little more subtle, it's more in the language you heard from your coaches, the references that seem to travel from locker room to locker room across the country.BUT, don't worry, the bulk of the movie and the sense of humor comes from the characters in the film and not the game itself. You don't have to understand the lingo, if you never had to take a knee and get screamed at by an old man with his pants hitched up too high, it doesn't matter, the movie can carry itself without appealing to sports fans.When you sit down for a movie, it should entertain you. That is the base level of any movie and "Necessary Roughness" does that better than most.

Collegekid2008 This is a very good flick, and Scott Bakula has always been one of my favorite actors.I first saw this film on TV as a child and recently picked up the DVD in a bargain bin and just re-watched it. It has only gotten better with age.I love the concept of this movie, and having been a college athlete myself, understand the NCAA sanctions and the rampant cheating that does go one within the sports world, which made this movie all the more enjoyable for me.Within the course of this movie we see the Texas State University football team (the two time defending national champions) suffer through a plethora of NCAA violations and lose all of the scholarship players, coaches and broadcast rights to their games. The new coach recruits a 35-year old freshman with a what-if I had gone to college attitude, and he quickly meets and falls for his journalism teacher, before she realised that he was not faculty but one of her students. It's fun to watch this film and wonder 'what if' like if this really did happen to this extent how would a team prevail.

Michael O'Keefe Stan Dragoti directs this funny sports film. The hits are hard and keep on coming. In trouble with the NCAA, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must put a team on the field made up of actual members of the student body. Coach Gennero(Hector Elizondo)and his assistant coach Rig(Robert Loggia)are using extreme caution, but their team is really needing some guidance. In comes thirty-something high school standout quarterback Paul Blake(Scott Bakula), who never got to play on a college team. Its one butt whipping after another, until caution is thrown to the wind and a female(Kathy Ireland)field goal kicker is added to the team.Larry Miller plays Dean Elias, who does everything he can to sabotage the Armadillos. Rob Schneider is the over zealous team play by play announcer. Also in the cast: Harley Jane Kozak, Sinbad, Jason Bateman, Fred Dalton Thompson and Andrew Lauer. The Fightin' Armadillos play a Texas State Penitentry team featuring the likes of: Dick Butkus, Earl Campbell, Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker, Evander Holyfield and Jerry Rice.This is a feel good movie and very realistic looking, albeit played for comedy. Well worth watching.

magellan333 Necessary Roughness is a fun movie that if it isn't taken too seriously can be very enjoyable. The first to worst Texas State team finds itself with a team of mostly "non-athletes" that came about after the school held open tryouts. The entire championship team from the year before had been suspended for violations. Scott Bakula plays a competent lead as a middle aged college athlete. Sinbad adds some fun to the story as another "elder athlete". Kathy Ireland, while no actress, does add some eye candy to the film. I also like this film in that this rag-tag team does not reach the heights of being #1 or making it to a championship game. The "big game" of this film is when Texas State plays the the #1 ranked college team. The film has plenty of laughs, a touch of drama and competent script writing and players. Watch it on a Sunday afternoon when nothing else is on.