Second coming of Tom Brady... Promising college senior quarterback Willy Bateman is destined to be the overall #1 pick in the pro football draft when he gets sidetracked after he and his 19-year-old brother are nearly killed in an automobile accident. Certain Willy would never be able to play football again with a severed but reattached (nonthrowing) arm, his father and head coach of the San Diego Krakens, who entered the league as an expansion team four years earlier, hires him to be one of his assistants. But,
Willy has other ideas. After his physical therapist girlfriend has a protective brace made for his crippled arm that has regained some motion, he's determined to play in the Gold Bowl (a.k.a. Super Bowl) against the Mexico Conquistadors, who became the first foreign team to enter the league the same time as San Diego. Can Willy convince his father to allow him to play in this wild matchup?