"Pain heals, chicks dig scars...glory lasts forever."

The Replacements (2000)

When the NFL football team, the Washington Sentinels, goes on strike, the team's owner, Edward O'Neill, calls former NFL coach Jimmy McGinty out of retirement to coach a rag-tag team of replacement players to finish the season's last four games in which McGinty turns to former Ohio State player Shane Falco to be the team's captain for the duration of the season and Falco is forced to shape up the misfit players whom include convenience store guard Clifford Franklin, gangster rapper brothers Andre and Jamal Jackson, former sumo wrestler Jumbo Fumkio, a Welsh "football" player called "The Leg", a deaf player, a convict on a work-release program, a tough SWAT leader, and many more while, at the same time, Falco strikes up a possible romance with the team's cheerleading captain Annabelle Farrell.

Keaaaauuuunnnuuuuu! A mix match of people that played some form of football at one point of their lives (replacement players), must come together to take on the NFL’s best teams to make the playoffs. Led by a former Ohio State QB who choked in the championship game, but had “miles and miles of heart,” this group of players were complete opposites and underdogs rise to the occasion with a ton of laughs and good times along the way. All I have to say is…”I will survive.” Oh, and Gene Hackman plays yet another leadership/coaching role, but funny this time. “That’s why girls don’t play the game!”