1st & Ten

The wealthy owner of a ragtag California football team is forced to relinquish his rights to his team to his wife in an acrimonious divorce, leaving her to attempt managing a professional sports franchise in disrepair by herself.

Diane Barrow, the new and inexperienced owner of her former husband's professional football franchise, struggles to gain a grasp on her roster and General Manager. Running a team proves more challenging than she anticipated, with a score of outside influences discouraging her success.

The dangerous and mob-connected Arcolo Brothers try to manipulate Diane's every choice, from her General Manager to her quarterback, in attempt to embarrass her and force her to forfeit ownership of the Bulls. This includes an elaborate and illegal plan to knock Diane unconscious and humiliate her.

Politics and egos take the forefront of the Bulls' surprisingly promising season, as Diane struggles to juggle the many factors that are keeping the somewhat tumultuous season from resulting in a fruitful playoffs-bound year.

Diane finds herself in a personal bind when her attraction and emotional attachment to one of her players conflicts with the team's need to trade him to another franchise. Plans convolute when the backup for the player on the trading block is severely injured in a freak accident.

When the Bulls' coach collapses with a life-threatening heart attack, Diane is forced to take the reigns, making history as the first female coach in professional football history, and scaring both her team and herself in the process.

Coach has an eerie premonition in his sleep that the Devil and God are pitting him between them in their divine battle over the Bulls. His superstition leads to confusion and distractions in the midst of the team's must-win predicament.

Controversy and turmoil overtake the Bulls when the starting quarterback gets injured and the backup accidentally impregnates a cheerleader, despite being married to a devout Mormon. He initially makes plans to leave for Tibet to become a monk but the rest of the team is determined to keep him on payroll.

The jokester of the Bulls finds himself in an existential crisis when he is told that the team plans to cut him after the season's end. Problems amplify when the jokester reveals that he cannot read, and that football is his only possible future.

After several Bulls players attack a con man for scamming them, he threatens to sue the organization, placing Diane in a situation in which she may have to go against her moral compass and ask the Arcola gangsters for assistance.

Coach Denardo is stressing over the importance of the next game, which makes or breaks a playoff spot for the Bulls, but the Arcola brothers finagle to pay off a referee and keep the season alive. Meanwhile, Rona pursues a relationship with Tim, a much younger man whom she met in rehab.

The Bulls pull off a last-second win in the semifinals, sending them to the championship. When Mace is offered a role in an upcoming film, however, and Diane is distracted by the surprise appearance of her former fiancé, Coach Denardo is left scrambling to prepare his team for the most important game of the year.

With all of the buzz surrounding the championship game, the media and advertisers are pulling focus 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.