Against the Grain (1993)

Insurance salesman Ed Clemons has just taken on the task of coaching the slumping high school football team of the small, but football-crazy town of Sumpter, Texas. He is given just one season to turn the fumbling teens around, and he throws himself into the job wholeheartedly. Though his methods ruffle the feathers of the quiet little town, he manages to make some real progress with the players. The show was inspired by Buzz Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream.

Against the Grain

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as Maggie Clemons

as Joe Willie Clemons

as Jenny Clemons

Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky

as Niles Hardeman

Jeanine Jackson

Jeanine Jackson

as Mindy Hardeman

Cheryl Felicia Rhoads

Cheryl Felicia Rhoads

as Winona Bruhns

Michael Cudlitz

Michael Cudlitz

as Bud Hardeman

as Jill Clemons

as Stan Langston

as Joe Callahan

as Froggy Wilson

Kimberly Cullum

Kimberly Cullum

Denise Richards

Denise Richards

as Jodi Collins

as Amanda Harris Calloway

as Skip Huntington

as Bobby Taylor

Karyl Lynn Burns

Karyl Lynn Burns

as Neighbor Lady

as Alberto Gianni

John Rubinstein

John Rubinstein

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

1x1

Pilot
1x2

The buck stops ... there
1x3

Respect
1x4

The reunion
1x5

Don't be a stranger
1x6

Two-minute drill
1x7

E pluribus unim
1x8

A house is not a home

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