Coach Hayden Fox (Craig T. Nelson), an old-fashioned man's man and all-around jock, lives and breathes football. This sometimes causes friction with his girlfriend, Christine Armstrong, a liberated and empowered TV anchorwoman. This show debuted in 1989 as a mid-season replacement but continued for eight successful seasons as Fox guided the woeful Minnesota State Screaming Eagles back into bowl contention and dealt, in his sincere but artless fashion, with the people in his life: Christine, his daughter Kelly, his air-headed assistant coach, and the clueless former star Michael "Dauber" Dybinski.