TV series · 1993
Against the Grain
First aired 1 October 1993 Drama / Family TMDB ↗
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.
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John Terry
as Ed Clemons
Stephen Tobolowsky
as Niles Hardeman
Vanessa Evigan
as Jenny Clemons
Everyone else (14) ↓
Bill Erwin
as Harold
Cheryl Felicia Rhoads
as Winona Bruhns
Wayne Knight
as Froggy Wilson
Donna Bullock
as Maggie Clemons
John Posey
as Stan Langston
Michael Cudlitz
as Bud Hardeman
Tim Griffin
as Mark
Robyn Lively
as Jill Clemons
Ben Affleck
as Joe Willie Clemons
Shiri Appleby
as Claire
Julia Arkos
as Wanda
Jeanine Jackson
as Mindy Hardeman
Neil Daly
as Joe Callahan
Lara Steinick
as Lynnette