American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...
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| Directing | Rob Lieberman | Director |
| Production | Jere Cunningham | Co-Producer |
| Camera | David Hennings | Director of Photography |
| Production | Lisa Freiberger | Casting |
| Production | Bob Roe | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Sam Nicholson | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Art | Dan Yarhi | Production Design |
| Sound | Mark Mothersbaugh | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jenifur Jarvis | Costume Design |
| Production | Michael London | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Alan L. Shefland | Editor |
| Camera | Gilles Corbeil | Steadicam Operator |
| Art | Elis Y. Lam | Art Direction |
| Directing | Dawn Sorokolit | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Jonathan Matthews | Location Manager |
| Camera | Brooke Palmer | Still Photographer |
| Art | Marlene Puritt | Set Decoration |
| Crew | Grant Wilkins | Transportation Coordinator |
| Crew | Erin Calhoun | Unit Publicist |
| Lighting | John Botelho | Gaffer |
| Writing | Tom Flynn | Teleplay |
| Writing | Tom Flynn | Story |
| Writing | Jere Cunningham | Story |