A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.