High-school football is king in small-town Texas, where 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night.
'Varsity Blues' follows the travails, both hilarious and pained, of five seniors on a high school football team in a small Texas town as they approach the end of a near-perfect season. With mounting pressure from their hard-driving coach and parents, who live vicariously through the boys' victories, the resolve and determination of the young athletes is put to the test as they seek to finish the season as heroes . . . their way.