''Second String'' is a direct-to-TV film from 2002 about the
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. ...
football team who find its first string (led by real-life Bills quarterback
Doug Flutie, who had left the team by the time the film was released) out for a month after a food poisoning incident, leading the team's head coach, "
Chuck Dichter" (portrayed by
Jon Voight), to hire an insurance salesman and former college quarterback named Dan Heller (played by
Gil Bellows) as the team's backup quarterback.
Teri Polo also appeared as Heller's wife; Flutie,
Mike Ditka,
Chris Berman,
Van Miller, Bills cornerback
Donovan Greer
Donovan Orlando Greer (born September 11, 1974) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins, and the Detroit Lions. He played college ...
and
Ken "Pinto Ron" Johnson
Ken Johnson, better known as "Pinto Ron", (born 1957) is a Buffalo Bills superfan known for attending every single Bills home and away game and hosting a tailgate party from 1994 to 2020, even attending the 2015 Bills–Jaguars game in London. A ...
appear as themselves. The film originally aired on
TNT.
See also
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List of American football films
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2002 television films
2002 films
American football films
Buffalo Bills
American films based on actual events
TNT Network original films
Films directed by Robert Lieberman
2000s American films
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