Diane Barrow gets her husband's football team, The California Bulls, as part of her Divorce settlement.
Diane reveals her choice for starting quarterback. Roger tries to change her mind and stirs up trouble between the players.
The Bulls play their first game on the road in Dayton. Paul tries to get his team back.
Diane has beer problems when the Arcola's stop distribution for the coming game. The players have a problem with Carl Witherspoon's new football contract and refuse to block for him during the game.
When Carl Witherspoon gets injured, Diane is forced to trade Bob Dorsey for a player to replace Witherspoon.
Diane has to coach the team while Coach DeNardo is recovering in the hospital from a near heart attack.
The Bulls lose a game when Coach DeNardo overmedicates himself. DeNardo decides to retire. Diane comes up with a plan to keep him.
Bob gets injured during a game. Bryce decide to leave football and move to Tibet after he learns that he got a cheerleader pregnant.
Rona fires two of the cheerleaders for being late, Roger complains to Diane. Larry learns this is his last season with the Bulls.
Jethro and Bubba get thrown in jail after making a bad wine investment and are accused of beating up the frenchmen that sold them the wine.
Rona is in a clinic drying out. However, will she return to drinking when she discovers her new beau is married? Meanwhile, the Arcolas take extreme measures to insure the Bulls make the playoffs. They bribe an official.
The Bulls pull off a last-second win in the semi-finals, sending them to the championship. When Mace is offered a role in an upcoming film and Diane is distracted by the surprise appearance of her former fiance, while Coach Denardo is left struggling to prepare his team for the most important game of the year.
With all the buzz surrounding the championship game, the media and advertisers are causing significant distractions from the Bulls' game plan, much to the frustration of Coach Denardo. To make matters worse, Diane receives a $60 million offer to sell the team along with the news that the whole organization is on the brink of bankruptcy.
As training camp for the upcoming season approaches, the Bulls organization is abuzz with faces new and old. While Bubba and Jethro are delayed by their usual rambunctious hijinks, there's a shake-up on the roster when hot-headed walk-on Tom Yinessa tries to make his case for the quarterback spot.
When the Bulls veterans arrive for training camp, Diane must deal with the rising tensions in other leagues' front offices, as the potential for a players strike looms over the start of the season. Diane and Coach Denardo must deal with their severely injured veteran running back, T.D. Parker.
Tom Yinessa returns to the Bulls with another shot at the quarterback position, but trouble grows within the receiving core as Clay Daniels begins to show serious signs of mental instability, and Jamie Waldren's drug problem starts to inhibit his abilities. All the while, Diane is picked to head an organization designed to combat the rampant drug use in the league.
When Yinessa is accused in a public statement from the commissioner as one of the primary pushers of cocaine in the league, Diane is left to deal with the fallout, including growing pressure to cut him from the team.
When the need for a proper running back grows dire, Diane is forced to negotiate with Rick Lambert's scummy agent, Max Greene. Meanwhile, Johnny Valentine keeps company with the league's biggest pushers, and Waldren struggles to fully close the book on his cocaine addiction.
When Johnny Valentine refuses to take part in a drug rehab program, Diane's patience with his ego finally vanishes and she arranges to have him traded to Buffalo. In the meantime, Coach Denardo warns Bubba that his weight is putting his spot on the team in jeopardy.
Now the starting quarterback, Yinessa leads the Bulls to the playoffs once again and his surprising success attracts overwhelming attention from reporters, much to the frustration of some of his teammates. As the next game approaches, Diane is offered the opponent's playbook, which the coaches regard with suspicion and disbelief.
When Jamie's excessive spending dries up his $400,000 salary, he finds himself in the company of some dangerous gamblers to cover his debts. Meanwhile, Jethro discovers that, although Tommy isn't his son, he wants to take on the responsibility of fatherhood. Yinessa finds himself in the tabloids.
With a potential matchup against Chicago looking more and more likely, Coach Denardo's fierce rivalry with Coach Boyd begins to strain his relationship with his staff, particularly Coach Fred. T.D. struggles with some family matters of his own as his son begins to act out.
The Bulls and Chicago make it to the championship and the tension between the two head coaches reaches a new high. Strained by his dissolving relationship with Coach Fred and fully consumed by his obsession with beating Boyd, Coach Denardo goes so far as to consider risking the career of Jamie Waldren by having him play on a serious injury.
Diane brings in a new co-owner of the Bulls, Teddy, who offers T.D. a promotion to general manager on the condition that he fires Coach Denardo as head coach.
With Denardo gone, Teddy tries to convince T.D. to bring his former college coach in as the new head coach for the Bulls, despite Diane having already promised the job to Fred Grier. Meanwhile, veteran John Manzak, who is having difficulty keeping up with the rookies in training camp, considers using steroids to improve his game.
T.D. is struggling to balance the demands of his new job with his home life. Still in the middle of his hold-out, Yinessa looks to his new receiver, Billy Cooper, for help. Meanwhile, John Manzak's steroid abuse has yielded on-field results at the risk of his physical and mental health.
Having sustained a serious injury in practice, Tom Yinessa's return to football seems doubtful. In the fallout, Yinessa's agent threatens to sue Diane for having his player on the field without a contract. Meanwhile, Manzak's steroid abuse escalates and Bubba turns to a sex surrogate for help with his marriage.
Teddy organizes a trade for Johnny Valentine behind Diane's back, which finally raises her suspicions. The Bulls start the season with an embarrassing loss in which Mad Dog and Dr. Death make fools of themselves. Bubba must find a way out of his love triangle with his wife and his sex surrogate. All the while, T.D.'s issues with his marriage deepen and his relationship with Kay progresses.
Diane, wise to Teddy's deceptive and manipulative ways, threatens to reveal evidence of his insider trading to the public. While Yinessa attempts to shake the rust off after his injury, T.D. struggles with guilt, both over the responsibility he feels for Yinessa's injury and for his ongoing affair with Kay.
After an atrocious start to the season, The Bulls are looking for ways to turn things around. T.D. turns to Coach Grier, who establishes a new rigorous practice regimen, under which the Bulls become defiant. Meanwhile, new owner Jill Schrader attempts to instill confidence with the team but the lingering ache of her breakup with Yinessa complicates things.
Dr. Death lays a ferocious hit on Joe "The Terminator" Morgan, injuring him in the process. While Dr. Death deals with the guilt, T.D. and Jill must defend him from the punishment of the Commissioner. Bubba and Jethro take over ownership of Jake's bar where Billy Cooper has a run-in with a vengeful man.
The Bulls, in need of a running back, are in the process of working out a trade but hesitate when Bubba becomes the main trade piece. T.D., who is to be honored by the President for his induction into the Hall of Fame, must choose who will be by his side at the ceremony, his wife Ellen or his girlfriend Kay.
The Bulls have backed their way into the playoffs but there are distractions around. Bubba and Jethro prepare for Zagreb's wild bachelor party, while Billy's younger brother Mike, fresh out of jail, comes for a visit.
The Bulls' need for a proper running back grows desperate. With playoffs rapidly approaching, Jill and T.D. consider signing Brian Bosworth in a potentially reckless move. Bosworth is currently a free agent holding-out on his contract with another team until he's able to receive his full asking price. Signing him could put the Bulls on thin ice with the rest of the league.
The Bulls are carving their way through the playoffs and it looks like they'll be heading to the championship for the third straight year. The organization sets up a music video for the team to star in but soon realize that they'll be able to capitalize on the profits by marketing Yinessa as the star, a prospect that creates a rift between players.
The championship game is just around the corner but distractions plague the Bulls once again. Zagreb believes he's jinxed away his ability to kick and T.D. must prove his innocence in a scalping incident. Worst of all, Yinessa, who has been caught up in commercials, receives some tragic news.
The team becomes embroiled in a messy situation when a clean-cut fast food chain with decidedly familial values purchases the Bulls. The players concoct a plan for the team to become joint owners of the team themselves, leading to divisive reactions amongst personnel.
The unruly Bulls roster attempts to get a grip on their shenanigans, to spearhead a successful and tasteful ownership of their beloved team. Things are more complicated than they would have thought, when the players show their true, unpredictable colors in the face of great change.
Pandemonium ensues when the draft looms, leading to speculation and paranoia that some of the Bulls' most beloved personalities are on the trading block.
The questionable choices of the various Bulls catch up with them when Mad Dog makes a promise to an aspiring cheerleader which he was unauthorized to make and T.D. attempts to recruit a former player to join the coaching staff.
The players' unpredictable yet hilarious antics continue as the group tries to make sense of their new roles as players within the Dodds Corporation ownership of the beloved franchise. Mad Dog gets caught in a series of lies and Joe comes into harsh proximity with one of the new owners and his classist prejudices.
After getting concussed from taking multiple significant hits on the field, the Bulls' quarterback fantasizes that his coach's colorful halftime pep talk is actually from a Vietnam War general amping up his troops for the second half of a major battle.
A slew of relationship dramas plague the Bulls players, with T.D. attempting to court the league's first female player, Cooper realizing the woman he is having an affair with is married to the team sponsor's president and more.
The Bulls organization and their sponsor's corporation are embroiled in a public controversy when the media says that the head coach has made a racist statement. But the allegations are embellished and misrepresented out of context, at best.
The roster of the 1987 California Bulls reunites to take a legacy group photo, although the futuristic dystopia they currently inhabit has proven to be consequential -- plateaued and more depressing than the one they played in.
The Bulls face a series of personal predicaments. Bubba is locked out of his fumigated home, Ernie reconnects with a former flame who turns out to be wrapped up in an inescapable football gambling horror and a player is on the chopping block but his good looks have attracted T.D.
The team adjusts to having a widely famous track star joining the team, much to the chagrin of an aging wide receiver whose job may be on the line with the new celebrity addition to the roster.
With their perfect season on the line, the team places an emphasis on the coming weekend's big game, even as Dr. Death juggles taking care of a young abandoned boy. Jethro and Bubba cater to a disgruntled chef's needs and more.
As the Bulls take a team flight to their next destination, they each mull over their respective fears and paranoias en route to attempting to keep their undefeated season and hopes for a championship alive.
Joe Namath makes a documentary on the championship-bound California Bulls, including interviews and candid moments with the characters and personalities we've watched grow into established men and winners on the field and off.
Zagreb releases a revealing book on the goings-on surrounding the Bulls' various questionable adventures, depicting the team and team culture in a shady light and fueling divisions between the normally civil roster.
The Bulls take a chance on a rehabilitated convict in prison and consider him as the team's starting quarterback, inviting a wave of criticism and controversy from both the players and administration in the process.
A mysterious woman enters T.D.'s life with troubling and unforeseen baggage, while Jonny Gunn finds himself in the middle of a testy situation when Westwood signs him up for surgery without his knowledge or consent.
The Bulls take a chance on a flashy young player. His father insists on being a personal sideline coach to the young star, leading to friction between the father and head coach, as well as questions about the team's ability to function.
A romance begins to bud between T.D. and Kristy, though reasons both personal and professional convolute the situation. But the more forbidden the relationship is, the more they both want it.
Billy Cooper finds himself in a swarm of trouble and bad publicity after a drunk driving incident leaves his companion in critical condition and he is sent to a legally enforced alcoholism recovery program.
The Bulls are buried beneath an massive scandal involving a star player allegedly receiving bounty incentives for knocking out opponents for a hefty financial sum.
Some of the Bulls players take a gaggle of beautiful women to a house in the woods, though the grounds appear to be more haunted than they thought.
Westwood finds himself on thin ice over a sexual assault allegation and the release of embarrassing and revealing photographs; Jonny Gunn attempts to begin a relationship with a stripper who has an unhealthy relationship with her manager.
The Bulls administration is getting fed up with questionable and shady referee calls against their team, which come at an especially inconvenient time with the playoffs creeping down their necks.
Kristy's estranged husband makes an unannounced return to her life, complicating matters for her personally and professionally.
T.D.'s son finds himself in a heap of danger after he gets involved with small-time gangsters in order to support his drug habit; he brings Ernie down with him.
An especially prank-happy Bulls team gets so out of hand that Coach Denardo considers retiring to become a broadcaster, while the players themselves become more reckless and prone to being embarrassed by anyone and everyone they encounter.
Jonny Gunn is kidnapped and held hostage for ransom, leading to team-wide turmoil and national uncertainty as to whether the young, rising star will make it to the approaching championship alive.
A new season means a new chance at glory, that is if all hope isn't lost on day one, with team president Kristy Fullbright engaging in some extracurricular activities with the Bulls' brand new starting quarterback.
T.D. has a temporary stint as the Bulls' offensive coordinator, Kristy explores the possibility of building a relationship with the new quarterback and Dr. Dog learns how to manipulate the impressionable rookies into doing pranks for him.
Coach Denardo is crankier than usual as he begins contemplating his mortality on his 65th birthday, leading some players to pay his wife to take him out on the town and show him "a good time."
Zagreb is caught and identified as the snitch selling revealing information and pictures of Bulls to the media, but Bubba and Jethro might want in, once they discover a reporter is willing to pay $50,000 for shots of Kristy and Mac's wedding.
The team falls under a wave of injury spells. Dr. Death neglects a potentially serious neck injury and Bubba, mistaking a concussion for a terminal illness, believes he has only thirty days to live.
Mac and Kristy's marital problems leak into their professional lives after Kristy threatens to bench Mac, after he makes clear his intentions to sign an endorsement deal that conflicts with his contract.
Miles is caught in a sticky situation when his girlfriend accuses him of being the father of her unborn child and exploits him for cash, while Zagreb reveals his gambling addiction has led to him being manipulated into throwing a game.
Jethro and Bubba come across a briefcase filled with unclaimed cash. Hilarity ensues when Mac's ex-wife reenters the picture with unexpected news that they are not legally divorced.
The Bulls become trapped in a hostage situation at Bubba and Jethro's bar when armed robbers hold them against their will. The robbers will free their captives in exchange for one million dollars.
Bubba is invited to participate in a celebrity boxing exhibition for charity,but despite everyone's encouragement, he is reluctant and terrified by the possibility that he might injure himself, or worse.
Dr. Death gets off on the wrong foot with the new equipment manager, who appears to know more than he lets on. Zagreb falls for a woman he believes to be a prostitute.
On a particularly dark and stormy night, some of the guys kick back over a game of cards to fantasize about how different their lives might have been had they pursued professional interests other than football.
The president of the Bulls' Texan opponent presents T.D. with an offer he can't refuse, bringing his loyalties to the fore and forcing him to question his destiny. Meanwhile, the shady equipment manager attempts to get between Jethro and Bubba to commandeer their bar and profits.
Tombstone Packer becomes distracted by his fascination with aliens, a recurring theme that has begun inconveniencing coaches, cracking up players and hurting Packer's preparation for the playoffs.
The players treat a romance-overloaded Putz to a recap of their romantic escapades, including all the embarrassing conquests various players have endured on their many quests for sexual gratification.
The Bulls are back in another championship game this time against a seemingly superior opponent who is always ten steps ahead of them. With so much on the line, especially with several veterans mulling retirement, the stakes could not be higher for one last national victory.