Second String
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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Title: Second String
Release Date: 2002
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sport
- Directors: Lieberman, Robert
- Actors:
- Voight, Jon as Coach Chuck Dichter
- Bellows, Gil as Dan Heller
- Polo, Teri as Connie Heller
- Jones, Richard T. as Gerry Fullerton
- Eads, George as Tommy Baker
- Barnes, Demore
- Ditka, Mike as Himself
- Flutie, Doug as Himself
- Johnson, Lamont as Weathers
- Miller, Van as Himself
- Neuhaus, Ingo as Johnson
- Parke, Evan as Mumms
- Shank, Roger as Brent
- Stoetzel, Mark as Cunningham
- von Esmarch, Nick as Hobbs