Line #0 YMMV/NecessaryRoughness


1	!!TV Series
2	* FanPreferredCouple: It may be that they're just more vocal, but Dani/Nico appears to be more prominent than Dani/Matt. [[spoiler: Whether or not your mileage varied, it seems the show has responded. As of "All The King's Horses", Nico and Dani share a kiss.]]
3	* NightmareFuel: We know that V3 is involved in money laundering, they run a clinic and one of their athlete trainees went bonkers once, left the program but is still a cog in V3's money laundering machine. TK is now at that clinic, preparing to undergo some experimental treatment. Then [[spoiler: the athlete who went crazy shows up at Dani's door, claiming that the clinic was involved in the money laundering scheme, and implies that they did something to him]]. Is this clinic inflicting untold medical horrors intentionally on athletes to make them dependent on V3's money and become unwitting accomplices? What BodyHorror will they inflict on TK to make him a cog too?
4	* ReplacementScrappy: Season 3 coach Tom Wizinski doesn't seem to be that loved by the fandom.
5	* RetroactiveRecognition: On one of the many alternate Earths in TheMultiverse, [[Series/Supergirl2015 James Olsen]] is a player for the New York Hawks.
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7	!!Film
8	* AluminumChristmasTrees: Coach Gennero's appearance on Creator/{{ESPN}} is played like he's been exiled from coaching. In real life, broadcasting is a standard fallback job for coaches between jobs. Some, like Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher and Jeff Van Gundy, have chosen to stay in broadcasting, rather than pursue other coaching opportunities.
9	* 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, it was liked by some big name critics (like Creator/RogerEbert), and it has appeared on several lists of top football movies.
10	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
11	** Lucy the PluckyGirl kicker played by Creator/KathyIreland is an iconic character despite not appearing until more than half way through.
12	** Maunmana the BruiserWithASoftCenter.
13	** Samurai TheLancer with his martial arts skills and general pleasantness.
14	** Chuck, TheFettered yet loyal announcer played by Creator/RobSchneider.
15	* HarsherInHindsight: While a lot of artistic license is used there are many big hits to the head which go unpenalized. This was, and is, a serious problem in football with many individuals suffering from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy CTE]]
16	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Campbell#Personal_life Earl Campbell]] is one of the professional athletes who cameos as the prisoners who “scrimmage” against the team. Sadly Campbell had a lot of serious physical ailments by the time he retired from the NFL. Worse yet was that many of the injuries were due to playing most of his games on Astroturf which is the type of field Texas State plays on.
17	* HilariousInHindsight: The 2020 NCAA season saw every team become the Armadillos thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Lucy became effectively [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] when Vanderbilt temporarily lost all of their kickers and recruited women's soccer player Sarah Fuller as an emergency fill-in.
18	** At the time the movie was made, there was no "Texas State University" in real life, but in 2003, Southwest Texas State University changed its name to Texas State University-San Marcos before finally taking the "Texas State" name in 2013.
19	* LoveToHate: The Dean. While a sleazy, stubborn antagonist he's also a little too over the top not to laugh at in his sabotage of the team, and he ''does'' have a point about how corrupt the previous team was.
20	* MemeticMutation: As noted above, the entire scenario of how Lucy joins the Armadillos played out in RealLife at Vanderbilt in 2020, when they recruited Sarah Fuller from the woman's soccer team as an emergency replacement kicker. Many media outlets quickly invoked the character in response, with Kathy Ireland [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/necessary-roughness-star-kathy-ireland-celebrates-sarah-fullers-history-making-day publicly commenting on the situation.]]
21	* {{Moe}}: GentleGiant Manu, mainly due to the determined but bashful way that he stands in front of Lucy while she's showering so no one else can look at her and [[AboveTheInfluence doesn't look back himself.]]
22	* MoralEventHorizon:
23	** Flat-Top of the Texas Colts in his ''first appearance''. When the Armadillos meet the Colts in a bar, Blake bends over backwards to ''avoid'' a BarBrawl, but Flat-Top is having none of it. He mocks the Armadillos, shoves Blake, pours beer on him, and hurls a racist insult at Manumana. The last is the final straw for Blake.
24	** 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 later attempt to rig the grades against them most certainly isn't.
25	* OneSceneWonder:
26	** The state prison inmates who pulverize the team in a scrimmage game. It helps that they were former and then-current professional footballers - like Dick Butkus and Ed 'Too Tall' Jones - who were (in)famous for rough play.
27	** The referee during the final game who gives a precise description of why he's penalizing Samurai, complete with a (lengthy) attempt to name and mimic all his martial arts moves before eventually giving up and issuing a blanket penalty for it all.
28	* 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.]]
29	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
30	** The Armadillos' game against Kansas ends in a tie when Lucy kicks a field goal as time expires and in the final game, they had to decide between going for a tie by kicking a field goal or to attempt a two-point conversion for a win. In 1991, the NCAA was only utilizing overtime periods in the playoffs and regular season games just ended in ties if the score was even when time expired.
31	** One of the characters is a UsefulNotes/GulfWar veteran who has a locker full of anti-UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein propaganda.
32	** The players' pads seem [[TechnologyMarchesOn comically oversized by today's standards]].
33	** 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.
34	** The coaches being impressed with a 40 yard field goal. That was a notable distance for a college, and even a pro, kicker in 1991. But by today that’s considered a routine chip shot and missing from that distance is unacceptable.
35	** Texas State plays on Astroturf. A surface which is (thankfully) all but extinct today. And was largely gone about a decade after the film’s release.

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