The Gang attends a football game for their team, the Hawks. However, after the Hawks win the game, their star player, Flash Granger, vanishes and the ghost of old football player known as the Rambling Ghost appears. Wanting to help the Hawks before the championship game, the gang investigates.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: When Flash Granger disappears, his replacement, Crunch Connors, gets to play, making a suspect until he disappears as well.
- Deadpan Door Shut: While Scooby and Shaggy are looking for clues in the locker room, Scooby Doo finds the Rambling Ghost in the lockers twice, but then shuts the door, acting like nothing happened.
- Delayed Reaction: In the training room, Scooby searches in the lockers, and finds the Rambling Ghost but dismisses it twice, but the second time he realizes what he found in the locker and looks and again. Fortunately for Scooby, this time he finds nothing.
- Help, I'm Stuck!: When the gang talks to Mr. Prentice, the Hawks team owner, about the Rambling Ghost, Scooby breifly gets his head stuck in one of Mr. Prentice's trophies.
- Latex Perfection: Buck Bender disguises himself as the scoreboard operator, Mr. Ellsworth, to divert suspicion from him being the Rambling and responsible for Flash and Crunch's disappearances.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Rambling Ghost has red eyes to show he is the bad guy in this episode.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The Rambling Ghost has the number 13 on his on football jersey to show he means bad luck for everyone.
- Toon Physics: When Scooby and Shaggy are chased by the Rambling Ghost they attempt to lose in the steam room, but after they exit they seemed to struck for the steam, until they enter the showers and become big again.
- Trap Door: Crunch Connors disappears when is captured by the Rambling Ghost after falling down a trap door under the football field.
