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Instead we have the rather straight-forward tale of Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn), divorcee and mother, who aspires to coach football in memory of her great father, The Football Coach. Of course, the only position available to her is at the nastiest school in a Chicago slum where armed guards...
Molly takes the job but meets with annoyingly predictable locker room resistance from her football team; vandalized office with spray painted "Get out pussy" decorating the walls, refusing to practice, flashing genitals. Molly is daunted, thinks about quitting but is buoyed up by anger and, then, predictably, overcomes her obstacles...
That over with, Molly trains the team with aerobic dance and learns to love the bunch of lower-class meatheads, even inviting them into her home.
MEANWHILE, THE SUB-PLOT unfolds, Molly's neurotic and over-protective ex-husband (Jim Keach) announces that he does not approve of her new job and the negative influence the football players have on their daughters. He tries to cajole her into quitting. Then he tries the "what about the...
The beady-eyed ex-husband threatens to sue Molly for custody of the kiddies if she doesn't quit her position and take up something milder. He claims that her job is endangering their daughters by bringing the brutes into too much contact with them. Just so we know that...