The Turkey Bowl

Tricked into returning after being falsely told his high school buddy Mitchell (Jones) died in a car accident, Patrick Hodges (Hansen)—a former high school quarterback-turned-Chicago businessman who is (unofficially) engaged to Ashley Sinclair (Bomar), the daughter of a U.S. Senator considering running for president—is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown of Putnam over Thanksgiving weekend to help his old friends finish The Turkey Bowl, a legendary football game between his alma mater Putnam Badgers and the crosstown rival Noble Knights (who went on to win the state championship that year) that was suspended in the second half during a freak snowstorm 15 years before. He is forced to do this task by Judge Tibbins (Beasley), a former coach at Putnam, as a condition of release following his arrest by fellow classmate-turned-cop Fish (Nicholson) for confessing to pushing former Knights quarterback Ronnie Best (Ritchson), now a prominent land developer, through the glass door during a melee outside the Badger Hole, the town bar owned by Patrick's former teammate "Fat Jack" (Reed).