History YMMV / NecessaryRoughness

** Then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-UefjYf14&ab_channel=Rick80%27s-90%27s end credits music]], which couldn't scream "1991" any louder if it tried.

** The state prison inmates who pulverize the team in a scrimmage game.

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** Then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnV3ED2zFV0&ab_channel=Effword1 end credits music]], which couldn't scream "1991" any louder if it tried.

* GretzkyHasTheBall:
** An episode where a #1 baseball prospect is expected to be drafted by Kansas City is treated like he's moving to Kansas City. Even #1 high school prospects (like Bryce Harper, who is a potential "once in a generation" like player), take several years in the minors in baseball, typically nowhere geographically near the parent club before making it to the majors, and even that is not a given. Football and Basketball will see jumps from amateur to the highest level all the time, but rarely in baseball. It's the fact that this is treated as standard procedure and not rare and special [[note]]It's rare and special enough for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_players_who_went_directly_to_Major_League_Baseball it's own page]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.[[/note]] that makes this a GHTB situation.
** Averted when Hutch shows up again later. It's explicitly stated that he's currently playing in the minors and that if he does well there, he'll get called up to The Bigs (the major league). It may have been that KC was intended to represent the minor league team rather than the major league one or that sometime off screen he was traded.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Charlie, the only player from the old team not to be cut. In the final film, he's a determined benchwarmer who ends up getting little screentime or CharacterDevelopment, and his connection to the old team is only briefly mentioned... yet the [[HeroOfAnotherStory backstory of how he was the one honest player on that corruption-ridden team would probably make a pretty good movie, too.]]

* LoveToHate: The Dean. While a sleazy, stubborn antagonist he's also a little too over the top not too laugh at in his sabotage of the team, and he ''does'' have a point about how corrupt the previous team was.

** The referee during the final game who gives a precise description of why he's kicking out Samurai complete with a (lengthy) attempt to mimic his martial arts moves before eventually giving up and issuing a blanket penalty for it all.

** Flat Top mocking and shoving the team in the middle of them complimenting him and then offering to leave peacefully. Its followed up seconds later by him throwing out a racist insult at Manumana.
** Arguably the Dean setting up a scrimmage with the state prison, which is a step above his previous disapproval and nastiness. And if that is forgivable under RuleOfFunny, then his [[spoiler:Attempts to rig the grades against them]] isn't.

** The state prison inmates who whip the team in a scrimmage game.
** The referee during the final game who gives a precise description of why he's kicking out Samurai complete with attempts to mimic his martial arts moves before eventually giving up.

* CultClassic: It wasn't a box office juggernaut, and has a 33% on rotten tomatoes, but there are those who consider the film to be a classical sports story, was liked by some big name critics (like Creator/RogerEbert) and it has appeared on several lists of top football movies.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Charlie, the only player from the old team not to be cut, and a determined, but somewhat benchwarmer gets little screen-time off the playing field or CharacterDevelopment despite being considered a interesting HeroOfAnotherStory potential by some.

* HilariousInHindsight: The 2020 NCAA season saw every team become the Armadillos thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Lucy became effectively [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] when Vanderbuilt temporarily lost all of their kickers and recruited women's soccer player Sarah Fuller as an emergency fill-in.

* HilariousInHindsight: The 2020 NCAA season saw every team become the Armadillos thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lucy became effectively [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] when Vanderbuilt temporarily lost all of their kickers and recruited women's soccer player Sarah Fuller as an emergency fill-in.