Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is a socially inept, stuttering 31-year-old water boy of the University of Louisiana's football program [3] He lives with his excessively protective mother, Helen (Kathy Bates), and believes his father, Robert Sr., died of dehydration in the Sahara while serving in the Peace Corps. As school authorities notice the players constantly bullying Boucher, the Cougars' head coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed), fires Boucher, claiming he is "disruptive." Bobby approaches Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) of the far more austere South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs and is hired as the team's water boy. The Mud Dogs are a struggling team both on and off the field. They have lost 40 consecutive games, their cheerleaders …show more content…
are alcoholics, and players are forced to share equipment due to budget cuts. Helen forbids Bobby from playing football, warning him of its "evils." After the new team picks on him, Klein encourages Bobby to stand up for himself, leading to him tackling and knocking out the team's quarterback. It turns out Bobby has hidden anger issues due to Helen's excessive sheltering and years being bullied. Seeing his potential, Klein meets with Helen and tries to persuade her to let Bobby play, but she refuses. Klein eventually convinces Bobby to play without letting Helen know.
Bobby quickly becomes one of the most feared linebackers. In his first game, he causes a turnover that costs the team the win, but he helps the team win the next game (with Klein telling him to visualize his enemies angering him and attack), ending their long losing streak. The Mud Dogs go on a winning streak and earn a trip to the annual Bourbon Bowl to face the Cougars and Coach Beaulieu. Bobby's newfound fame and confidence also allow him to reconnect with his childhood crush, Vicki Vallencourt (Fairuza Balk), who has been in prison multiple times. Helen forbids Bobby from seeing her, warning him that girls are "the …show more content…
devil." Beaulieu crashes the Mud Dogs' pep rally and reveals that Bobby never finished high school (being homeschooled by his mother) and his high school transcript was fake, making him ineligible for college and football.
This turns the team and fans against him. Klein convinces NCAA to let Bobby play if he can pass a GED exam. He apologizes to Bobby and admits to submitting the fake transcript because he was desperate to get even with Beaulieu. It is revealed that Klein and Beaulieu used to be assistant coaches at the University of Louisiana. Beaulieu took credit for Klein's playbook, got promoted to head coach, and immediately fired Klein. The experience drove Klein to a mental breakdown, making him unable to come up with new plays. The story convinces Bobby to help Klein get revenge on Beaulieu and prove himself to everyone. While studying, Bobby inadvertently reveals to Helen that he has been playing football, going to college, and seeing Vicki. This leads to them having a fight that ends with Bobby defying his
mother. Bobby passes the exam, but Helen feigns illness. Feeling he drove his mother to illness, Bobby stays in the hospital with her. Meanwhile, Vicki spreads word of Bobby passing the exam. This leads to a gathering of fans at the hospital who apologize for not supporting him and try to convince him to play. Seeing her son struggling to ignore his calling, Helen realizes the error of her ways and ends her fake illness. She tells Bobby the truth about his father, Robert Sr., who left home to find work in New Orleans as a means to support their family. The only reason she lied about him dying in a missionary work with the Peace Corps in the Sahara is because she had to protect Bobby from the truth of his father's actions. After Robert Sr. changed his named to Roberto, he had an affair with a voodoo priestess and willingly abandoned her while she was pregnant with Bobby. Consequently, this lead to Helen sheltering him all his life and is constantly afraid that Bobby would leave her, which was why she faked being sick in order to keep him by her side. Having seen him being happy and making new friends, she realized how selfish she had been to him. The best thing Helen can do is let Bobby go and encourages him to play in the Bourbon Bowl. Arriving at halftime, Bobby finds the Mud Dogs losing 27-0. He tries to encourage the team, who apologizes for not treating him with the respect he deserves. With Bobby's help, Coach Klein overcomes his fear of Beaulieu (by visualizing his enemy as something he's not afraid of) and comes up with new plays. The Mud Dogs begin to catch up, unsettling Beaulieu, who resorts to underhanded tactics. Meanwhile, Helen helps by sobering up the team's cheerleaders in making coffee, while Vicki fills in for Bobby's usual waterboy duties. Eventually, the Mud Dogs win the Bourbon Bowl by a score of 30-27(like Vicki predicted) and ending Beaulieu's "perfect season" with the Cougars. Bobby is named the MVP. Some time later, Bobby and Vicki get married. Robert, Sr. (director Frank Coraci in a cameo role) shows up and tries to convince Bobby to skip school and go to the NFL, citing the success of Tiger Woods and his father. He is tackled to the ground by an enraged Helen out of revenge for his actions, while the crowd cheers. Bobby and Vicki leave to consummate their marriage.
No college wanted anything to do with Chris Herren, except coach Jerry Tarkanian at Fresno State University. Chris got a chance to start over, however was reluctant to leave his family and friends and move over three thousand miles away. His fiancé Heather talked him into the offer,...
Charley Johnson is a very talented NFL quarterback from NMSU that not many people know about. Having accomplished so much, I feel that people should. Bleacher Report’s Brendan Majev, ranked him the 91st greatest quarterback of all time. He was drafted 10th round by the St. Louis Cardinals. After playing with them and the Oilers, he ended his career with the Denver Broncos in 1975. Topics gone over in this essay include his early life, his college football career, his NFL career, his army career, and his education.
As Bobby is putting Feather into her crib, he drops his basketball and it rolls from the crib, to his mom’s room. This shows coming of age because his basketball (his childhood) is rolling away from him because now he has to grow up and take care of Feather. Bobby always used to play basketball with K-Boy and J.L. but he can’t as much anymore because he is a single parent and needs to learn how to take care of Feather by himself and mature to be a good
“I 'm really not into selling the school,” Hoyt said. “I 'm not going to talk anyone into playing basketball for me. It needs to be a marriage. They need to want me as much as I want them, otherwise it won 't work. I am going to let them know why it 's a great place for them, and why it may, or may not be a good decision for them. But at the end of the day, I want them to make the best decision for themselves, because it 's a huge decision moving forward. I let them know that they are going to be looked after while they are here by not only myself, but the community as well. It will be difficult at times, but they will succeed. This place was designed for them to be successful.”
History of the Football Team the Rams The history of the Rams has not always been in St. Louis as most of you. already know. In 1937 a group of business executives decided they wanted a home town football team, so they built a stadium that held 3000 people in the middle of Cleveland, Ohio. They held try outs for players who wanted to play.
In the short story, “Until Gwen” by Dennis Lehane, it starts off with the main character named Bobby who is getting picked up by his father from prison with a stolen Dodge Neon. His father wasn’t alone, he brought himself a company and it was a hooker named Mandy. We got a sense of who his father was, a “professional thief, a consummate con man” (647). We don’t know why he was in prison until the rest of the story slowly reveals the flashbacks he has with his girlfriend Gwen and the incident prior of going to jail. Bobby has no sense of who he is or where he is from because there no proof of record of him such as a birth certificate. After meeting Gwen, his life has changed and felt the sense of belonging into the world he is living in. Bobby’s
...football player and scholar. “...and he admitted that part of the problem in the Carter game had been his own lack of belief of his abilities” (Bissinger 348). Finally a starting quarterback, due to Boobie’s injury, Mike pressures himself about being a good enough player to perform under the lights. “He would never be able to throw the ball, never be able to get a grip on it. It wouldn’t be a field of dreams at all, but one of nightmares” (Bissinger 315). Even towards the end of the season, Mike still doubts himself. He worries about helping his team carry the city of Odessa to the state championship. Not winning scares Mike, he doesn’t want to let anyone down.
middle of paper ... ... But later on soldiers mentioned that Bobby had indeed matured from his once pusillanimous ways. And it is through such experiences, like the one that Bobby had with Tim, that he learned to become a better medic, a better soldier, and even a better person. Most of this story revolves around experiences that Tim O’Brien has had.
At the beginning of this movie, Coach Yoast, the Caucasian head coach, is told that the schools would be integrated and he would be losing his position to an African American man, Coach Boone. As Boone takes his position, there is a lot of tension on the team and he has found a way to resolve it. The team takes off to Gettysburg where they are told that if they survive camp they will make the team and if not then they simply will not be on the team. While in Gettysburg these guys learn more than football. As they stand on the soil where men lost their
Things that you need to know about the city of New Orleans. This is the biggest city in the state of Louisiana. It is also known for jazz music. It has a basketball team called the New Orleans Hornet and a football team called New Orleans Saints. New Orleans has lots of things to see and to do. Like Mardi Gras it is a parade that’s held in New Orleans. I will be talking about New Orleans early settlement, traditions, culture, weather, lifestyle, closing, and works cited.
During his time at the University of Florida, Tim Tebow was known as one of the greatest college football players ever. He won two National Championships and a Heisman trophy, which is the award given to the best player in college football. During this time period in college footbal,l players such as Reggie Bush and others were involved with investigations regarding illegal benefits being given to players by agents and boosters. Needless to say, Tim was never associated or involved in these investigations or crimes.
The Southern Methodist University football scandal, also known as Ponygate, was one of the most severe consequences that the NCAA has ever given out to a college or university. In this instance, the Southern Methodist University football program was found to be illegally paying their players after already being in trouble with the NCAA several times. The first time this football program had been caught by the NCAA for not following its rules was in 1985. This was when an incident regarding offensive lineman Sean Stopperich came up. Prior to transferring schools after going through an injury which made him unable to play, he was paid $5,000 by one of the Southern Methodist Universities booster programs to attend the school and play football there. This caused “the NCAA to place SMU on three years of probation in 1985, limit its postseason appearances, ban the boosters involved and strip the football program of 45 scholarships.” This did not show the program or the school a lesson though. Again in 1986 the Southern Methodist University football program was found breaking NCAA rules. This was their seventh time they had broken and been caught breaking NCAA rules. This time it was found that, “an unnamed booster had been found to have paid 13 Mustang players $61,000 from a slush fund with the approval of key members of the SMU athletic staff.” The result of this complication with NCAA rules is what became known as the, “death penalty”. This death penalty declared that there were to be, “no football in '87. only seven games in '88. no television or bowl appearances until 1989 and restrictions on off-campus recruiting and the number of assistant coaches until 1989 SMU which signed no high school players to letters of intent this winter...
To buy or not to buy, that is the question. Although it was the greatest “real estate” deal, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was perhaps one of the most controversial events in American History. President Thomas Jefferson, although he was a Founding Father and the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence, faced major opposition with his decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the French. Most of the opposition he faced, however, was domestic.
Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) is an unhappy honors student who wishes he could be accepted as a person and not valued just as a brain. Upset over a poor grade in shop, Brian has contemplated suicide rather than live with the ire of his disappointed parents.
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