Fun movie despite obvious mental handicap of practically everyone involved with writing, directing, and production.

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2019)

It's got plenty legitimately funny moments and lines and the cast turns in a fairly credible performance even though they have some awful material to work with. The biggest problems with this movie is the god awful directing and editing along with a blatant disregard for even a semi-realistic story about replacement players taking over when the primary players go on strike.
1. Why are there replacement cheerleaders? Cheerleaders don't have a union and have no bargaining power. Players go on strike, cheerleaders don't.
2. In the game against San Diego, Washington lines up for an onside kick. Before the kick, John Madden explains in the background that they need to recover the kick and call for a timeout. Bateman recovers the kick for Washington and runs around trying to score before he is tackled by Falco. Falco then calls a timeout. In no world would a QB ever be on the field for a kickoff. There's also no need to call a timeout after a kickoff is blown dead, as the clock stops anyway. I'm sure John Madden made mention of this to the director or someone.
3. Leading up the game against Dallas, (striking) Washington star QB Martel makes it known that he is crossing the picket line to return to the team. Ownership happily welcomes him back and Falco is released. Apparently in this world there are also no backup QBs .
4. During the Dallas game, Falco returns during halftime and is told to suit up. Eventhough he is no longer under contract and not on the official game day roster, he is allowed to return to the field with no objection from the refs or the opposing team.
5. During the Dallas game, Bateman and Smith (both of whom play on defense) are in the offensive huddle and promptly execute a 20 yd run play eventhough they had never worked with the offense before.
6. The production values of this movie are soooooooo effing awful, especially the music. At times it seemed more like a broken record rather than professional grade music editing.
But in spite of its glaring flaws and poor execution, I can't not watch this movie whenever I come across it on TV. There's just something about this horribly made movie that gets me. Nearly 20 years later and I still get a kick out of it.