“25 words or less” – The life and
times of a hard-partying, chain-smoking, drug-abusing, first round-drafted
hotshot rookie sensation, who happens to be a professional football kicker, is
examined
Full Summary:
Bobby “Crazy Leg” Crenshaw is a
hotshot rookie who was drafted in the first round by the Texas Bulls of the
United Football League, he’s also a kicker…but not just any kicker, he’s a dual
threat who can punt and placekick the ball.
A homegrown talent from Texas,
Bobby is not your average athlete. In
lieu of intense weight training and practice that occupy his other teammates
who play more physically demanding positions, he spends his time drinking
heavily, chain smoking incessantly, flirting with any girl that gets within
striking distance, smoking weed and popping molly. He’s quite a character, but a character that
everyone loves to be around on the football field; from the skinny, lily-white backup
kicker to the 350 pound defensive lineman.
His goofy demeanor is egged on by
his ever-present tight circle of friends which include two of his childhood
buddies that he played high school football with – Ashton and Grant – and his
older brother, Connor.
In the first episode, Bobby, who’s
being interviewed for a feature article in ESPN the Magazine, talks liberally
about his use of recreational drugs.
This enrages the commissioner’s office who orders that Crenshaw be
randomly drug tested after their next game.
Luckily, the Texas Bulls management
team has a mole in the commissioner’s office and finds out about the drug test
beforehand. Bobby assures the owner and
general manager though that they don’t need to worry about anything since his
comments in the magazine were taken out of context and he’s actually been clean
for a while. He chalks up his comments
as the innocent bragging of an admittedly immature kid and said he’d pass the
drug test with flying colors.
The owner and general manager are
satisfied with Bobby’s answers and go about their business but there is a problem,
a major one. Bobby is lying since he’s
still a regular and habitual user of all kinds of illegal narcotics and he has
no plans of stopping either.
Panicked, Bobby stops by his older
sister, Jenna’s, house for a seemingly impromptu visit after practice one
day. But it’s anything but an impromptu
stop as he needs his four year old nephew’s urine in order to pass the drug test
without suspicion. Will his sister allow
Bobby to use her son’s urine? If so, can
he pull off his caper successfully or will his fake sample be detected by
league officials? Will he be suspended
or will he continue living his life with no regard to the rules or societal
norms?
