History Film / VarsityBlues

* {{ Jerkasss}}

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Kilmer sees Wendell and the other black players as nothing more than workhorses to help the team drive the ball downfield before giving the scoring opportunities white players. Wendell's mom has to do his college recruiting because Kilmer won't go out of his way to help the black players get noticed by scouts.

* DateRape[=/=]BlackComedyRape: Charlie Tweeder talks to Mox about how girls are panty-droppers, after you give them some painkillers and alcohol. Subverted by Mox who, rather than laughing about it, asks him if he'll like prison.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Most notably in the blocked punt scene. Billy Bob asks to be put in on defense and blocks two guys at once, and Tweeder (who's already playing defense, even though he's a wide receiver) blocks the punt. The only player not one of the main characters to be seen doing ''anything'' is a receiver named Gonzales catching a single pass during the last game.

* TheRival: Lance and Mox are friends, but their respective fathers don't se

* MeaningfulName: Johnathan "Mox" Moxon as in "moxie".

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%%* BigFun: Billy Bob
%%* BigGame
%%* BillyElliotPlot

%%* TheCheerleader: Darcy Sears.

--> '''Mox''': Tweeter, do you think you'll enjoy prison?\\
'''Tweeter''': I don't know...what?
%%* DumbMuscle: His name is Billy Bob.
%%* DownToTheLastPlay
%%* DrillSergeantNasty: Coach Kilmer, as are most football coaches.
%%* EverytownAmerica: West Canaan, Texas.

%%* GentleGiant: Billy Bob.
%%* GirlNextDoor: Mox's girlfriend Julie.

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler: Mox tracks Billy Bob at the field, who is drinking and shooting his old trophies before presumably shooting himself; Mox talks him down]].

%%* MiracleRally
* MrFanservice: Plenty of the football players show off their muscles. Tweeder walks naked in the street wearing just a cowboy hat

%%* PracticalVoiceover: The radio announcers a few times in the film.

%%* SlowClap

%%* TeamPet: Billy Bob's pet pig, Bacon.

%%* TeenDrama: It was produced by MTV Films.

%%* VillainousBreakdown: Almost to tears.

%%* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Miss Davis again.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mox's brother Kyle seems to adopt and practice a different religious faith in every scene he's in. Eventually taken {{UpToEleven}} when Kyle forms his own cult!

* ParentalObliviousness: His son just received an acceptance letter to an Ivy League college, with a full academic scholarship nonetheless, but Sam Moxon wants to talk football.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mox's brother Kyle seems to adopt and practice a different religious faith in every scene he's in. Eventually {{TakenUpToEleven}} when Kyle forms his own cult!

* Cloudcuckoolander: Mox's brother Kyle seems to adopt and practice a different religious faith in every scene he's in. Eventually {{TakenUpToEleven}} when Kyle forms his own cult!

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* BadassBookworm: Mox, who can make a ref across the field groan in pain from receiving a spiral thrown by him while sitting... As he reads ''SlaughterhouseFive''. He also gets a full academic scholarship to Brown University just before beating the best team in the conference.

** Notably, this mentality is what kicks off the plot, as [[spoiler: Coach Kilmer's, and by extension the town's, fixation on this trope result in his talking injured ''high-school'' athletes into taking painkillers and avoiding the hospital so they can still play, with the doctors treating Lance absolutely horrified at the amount of scar tissue they find, and turning what would be a season-ending injury into a [[CareerEndingInjury career-ending one]].]]

* SeriousBusiness: Football in West Caanan, Texas - see LosingIsDeath.

%%* SeriousBusiness: Football in West Caanan, Texas.

%%* UnusualEuphemism: "Pedro?"

** Notably, this mentality is what kicks off the plot, as [[spoiler: Coach Kilmer's, and by extension the town's, fixation on this trope result in his talking injured ''high-school'' athletes into taking painkillers and avoiding the hospital so they can still play, with the doctors treating Lance absolutely horrified at the amount of scar tissue they find, and turning what would be a season-ending injury into a [[CareerEndingInjury career-ending one]].

* ArtisticLicenseSports: In two games, Mox hits an obnoxious mascot on the sideline with the ball after the snap. The film treats this as a clever way to stop the clock (i.e. spike the ball). In reality, this would be ruled as intentional grounding and would result in a loss of a down and ten yards. However, this would hinge on whether there was a nearby receiver, and the ball "[[ContrivedCoincidence just happened]]" to bean the mascot on a botched pass.

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