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In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is
deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry
the
hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th
year as head coach, Bud Kilmer is trying to lead his West Canaan Coyotes
to
their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury,
the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John
Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the
game. `Varsity Blues` explores our obsession with sports and how teenage
athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them.