Coach (1989–1997): Season 1, Episode 5 - The Loss Weekend - full transcript
After another lost game, Christine is worried that the weekend with Coach is ruined, again.
FEMALE NARRATOR: Coach is
filmed before a studio audience.
All right, let me tell you
what this is not.
This is not gonna be
a pre-game pep talk
because I don't think you guys
need a pre-game pep talk.
I don't think you need me
to stand up here and tell you
that you have the tools to win
when you know
you have the tools to win.
You know, I've put a lot
of teams on a lot of fields,
and this is one of the finest
teams that I've ever coached.
You have the game plan,
you have the desire,
and I know that's why we're
gonna win this afternoon.
And that's why I know you guys
don't need a pre-game pep talk!
Now, Wichita needs
a pre-game pep talk.
(ALL LAUGHING)
I mean, if I were coaching
that team of losers,
I think I'd be up here trying
to give you a pre-game pep talk.
Because I know
you're gonna go out there
and you are going to annihilate
Wichita this afternoon!
Now, if that were
about to happen to me,
I think I'd pay somebody to
give me a pre-game pep talk!
But you guys don't need
a pre-game pep talk!
Do you need
a pre-game pep talk?
No!
ALL: No!
Gentlemen, this
is our home opener.
This is our first game this
season before our families,
our school, our friends,
our Lord.
Now let's go out there,
and let's hurt some people!
ALL: Let's go! Hurrah!
Great speech, Coach.
Thanks, Daub.
Sure hope they believed you.
Oh, come on, there's no way we're gonna
lose this game this afternoon, Luther.
That's what you said
the first two games.
The first two games
were flukes.
We were on the road,
we had some injuries.
Those are plastic, Daub.
You know something, Luther?
I really need you to be up today.
I'm up.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Oh, is my dad busy?
Hi, Kelly.
Hi.
Hey, babe.
So this is what it's like
before a game, huh?
Well, you missed the pre-game pep talk.
That was pretty exciting.
Hey, you know, Luther,
why don't you and Daub go check on the team?
Right.
Might as well go out
and face the music.
Well, I just wanted to stop by
and wish you luck.
Well, you know something?
I always wanted to be coaching
and have you up there
in the stands cheering for me.
I'm going
with a bunch of friends,
so there's gonna be five of
us up there cheering for you.
Yeah, well, actually, I think there's
gonna be about 35,000 of you cheering.
See, 'cause a lot of people
come to these things.
That's good. Good.
(PHONE RINGING)
Look, I better get going.
I don't wanna miss the kick-off.
Okay. See you
after the game.
Yeah.
Okay.
Coach here.
CHRISTINE: Hi.
Hey, how you doing?
Great. I'm still
at the station.
How does it look today?
The game? No problem.
Shoe-in victory.
You promise?
Yeah, why? You worried?
No.
I just miss you, that's all.
It's been three weeks.
And whose idea was that, huh?
Both of ours.
You know our deal.
We can't see each other after you lose a game.
You're inconsolable.
Well, we're gonna
win this one today.
Why don't you just pack your bag and get over here?
I'll see you after the game.
Okay. Good luck.
Oh, forget luck.
We're going to win today
because we're the better team.
And luck has nothing
to do with it.
I'll see you after the game,
all right?
Bye.
All right.
(EXCLAIMING)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Get out of here.
Hey, Dad?
Oh, hi, sweetheart.
Come on in.
I brought some friends along.
I hope that's okay.
Oh, sure. Bring everybody in.
What the hell.
This is Shari, Lynn, Tobi, Karen.
Hi.
This is my dad.
We really enjoyed the game.
Yeah, sorry we couldn't
win one for you.
Oh, we didn't care.
We had dates.
So, Dad, are you okay?
Sure, fine. Yeah. Yeah.
Mom said you used to get kind
of upset after you lost a game.
I didn't lose the game.
The team lost the game.
I didn't.
Is it true we only had
10 men on the field?
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
So that's why the other team
was able to score the touchdown?
Uh-huh. Yeah.
Hi, Kelly.
Hi.
Team's in the locker room.
I don't care.
I know that.
I knew that. I just wanted you
to know they're counting to 11
like you told them
to practice on.
Good.
They've done it, oh,
probably 100 times so far.
Fine.
I just wanted
to let you know that.
I'll be in with the team
if you need me.
How much longer
do you think...
When I say so.
That's what I thought.
Nice to see you, Kelly.
Brought all your little
friends to the game, that's...
I think we should be going.
Yeah.
Nice to meet you, Coach Fox.
Right.
Hey, better luck
next time, huh?
Right.
Dad, are you sure
you're okay?
Oh, yeah. Sure. Fine.
I mean, listen, you know,
you don't have to pretend in front of me.
You know, it can't be fun
to lose like that
in front of the whole school
and everything.
Well, honey,
it's part of my job.
I tell you, this is gonna happen
when you're working with 60 young men
who are inexperienced,
immature,
brain-dead.
I'll call you tomorrow?
Super.
(SIGHING)
(PHONE RINGING)
Yeah.
Hayden, I am so sorry.
Yeah, well, you know.
The sportscaster said there
were only 10 men on the field?
Do you wanna talk about it?
No, no, I really don't.
Not really. No.
How soon can you get
over here?
I'm not coming.
What do you mean
you're not coming?
Christine, come on now.
It's been three weeks, you know,
since we've been together.
You know what I'm talking about, "together"?
I need us to be together.
I mean,
I need some togetherness here.
Let's get together.
What do you say? Come on now.
Believe me, I know it's been three
weeks, but we agreed.
I don't know how to help
you after you lose a game.
You won't talk,
you're irrational, angry...
Look, Hayden...
lam not irrational and angry.
Now, come on, I mean, I admit I spoiled
a couple of weekends in the past, okay?
Let's let bygones be bygones.
I'm over that stuff now.
I've got losing behind me.
Come on. I've been working
on some meditation.
I got some inner peace
exercises going for me.
Yeah, I mean, come on.
What do you need?
Hayden,
I want to say yes, but...
Then say it.
All right. I'm probably crazy to do
this, but we'll try it one more time.
Just promise me,
if you're not past it,
at least you'll talk about it.
Past what?
Now, just get down here as fast as you can.
I gotta see you.
Fine.
Bye.
Oh, Dauber, what the hell
are you doing out there?
I was just getting a drink.
My mouth got dry
from counting.
Dauber, you're a coach.
You don't have to count.
Oh. I'll go tell Luther.
Miss Armstrong
will be right down.
I saw you parking the car.
I called.
Thanks.
So you guys going out
to dinner tonight?
Yeah.
Touchdown Club?
I don't know. You tell me.
It's just that you guys have pretty
much the same routine every week.
Hey! Tough loss today.
Yeah.
I flew all the way
from Florida to see this game.
Ten men on the field, huh?
Boy, that was
a costly mistake.
Yeah, it sure was.
Cost me $900.
Hi.
Hi. Oh, boy,
am I glad to see you.
(CHRISTINE LAUGHING)
So are you hungry?
Yeah.
I made reservations
at the Touchdown Club.
Do you think that's a good idea?
I mean, it's so public.
I thought it would be
a lot nicer
if we go back to your place.
I could make us dinner.
Oh, you know, Christine,
now that's very sweet of you,
but I got this loss thing
behind me.
I just want to prove to you
that I can handle everything.
Now, come on. Let's go.
Hey, Coach, nice game.
Oh, do you got 11 singles
for a 10?
Hey, you know,
let's go to my place.
Did you want a salad,
or is the pasta gonna be enough?
Hayden?
Hmm?
Boy, everything smells great,
doesn't it?
I haven't cooked anything yet.
Well, I meant
the ingredients smell great.
You were thinking
about the game, weren't you?
No, I wasn't. No, I swear.
Oh, yeah, now, see, this is what
life is all about, isn't it, huh?
No TV newscasts,
no football games,
you know, just the two of us.
See, I've been really looking
forward to this weekend.
So have I.
You know, we don't have
to have dinner right away.
If you like,
we could open a bottle of wine,
curl up on the sofa,
rekindle the old fire.
Hayden?
Hmm?
Fire?
Right. It is getting cold
in here, isn't it?
Hayden! Hayden, why don't we
just admit that you're upset,
and we can talk about it.
Well, I don't wanna talk
about it.
I wasn't thinking about the game.
I was thinking about you.
You didn't hear
a word I said.
I heard every word you said.
Look, I got an idea.
Okay, now wait a minute.
Why don't we just put off
dinner, okay?
We'll open up 3 hottie of wine.
We'll curl up on the old sofa.
I'm gonna light a fire.
Now, how does that sound, huh?
Inspired.
All right, 'cause I know
this is gonna work.
Oh, Christine,
that lake is beautiful out here.
I mean, you know,
with the moon out,
you can see light and
shimmering stuff out there.
That is great,
you know that?
You're right.
It is beautiful.
Oh, it's funny.
No matter how many times I come out
here, I never get tired of it.
Just a feeling of tranquility
you can't find any place else.
(CHRISTINE SCREAMING)
What?
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Who is it?
LUTHER: Hayden!
Dauber, get away
from the window.
Hayden! This'll take two seconds.
Let me...
I'm sorry to bother you.
Hi, Christine.
Hi, Luther.
What do you want, Luth?
Can the team go home now?
No, no.
I know,
I didn't mean right now.
It's that they've been counting
to 11 for about six hours.
I want like a ballpark figure of when
you might be finished being mad at them.
Well, I'm not mad at them.
I want to teach them a lesson.
Right.
We'll just stick with it then.
All right.
Hayden, would it be okay
if we got something to eat?
Well, of course.
I'm not trying to punish anybody.
Yeah, well, that's a relief.
Nice to see you again,
Christine.
Nice to see you, Luther.
We can eat,
but we can't go home.
Just out of curiosity,
how long are you gonna keep them there?
Well, now, Christine,
don't try telling me how to coach here.
This isn't about coaching,
this is about being irrational.
No, I mean, I'm trying to
teach them a lesson, you know?
After all,
I am a representative
of an institution
of higher education.
Counting to 11
is higher education?
Well, for these guys, it is.
Hey, come on, look.
Now, I don't wanna talk about football, all right?
I wanna...
l wanna have our weekend.
I got an idea. Sit down.
And we'll open a bottle of wine,
and then we'll curl up on this sofa,
and we're just gonna forget
about everything that's happened.
I mean, we're gonna start
the evening over again, okay?
Now you tell me
about your week.
Well, let's see.
The station has decided
to go ahead with those promos
showing newscasters at home
to try to make us
look like real people.
That sounds great.
Only they don't like
my real home.
So instead,
they've built a set
that's supposed
to be my home,
and they've rented me a dog.
And I'm supposed to sit there
with my rented dog,
sipping cappuccino
and talking
about my childhood dream
of being
a broadcast journalist.
So I said to them,
"You want big ratings,
"forget home and hearth.
Let's just go straight for sex.
"Why don't I do
the promo naked?"
So actually
that's what we decided to do.
Yes, I took off
all my clothes,
they rolled the tape,
and I stood there in front
of everybody buck-naked.
Hayden?
Hmm?
What was I saying?
Something about a buck.
You got a raise!
Hey! Come on.
That's it.
That's it.
Take me back to the hotel.
Come on.
I wandered for two seconds.
My mind just...
Hayden. Hayden,
I can't do this anymore.
I can't pretend
I'm having a weekend.
You're still on the field,
and that's fine.
That's obviously
where you wanna be.
Why am I sitting here
keeping you from it?
Oh, Christine. Christine.
Hold it, Christine.
Now, look,
do you have any idea
of what it's like to lose?
I mean, have you ever spent
a week preparing for something
and then have to watch it turn to
garbage right before your very eyes?
No, gee, I wouldn't
have a clue about that.
You think I've never spent
an entire week
writing, shooting, editing a
story, and then having it dropped
because we ran out of time?
What about this weekend? Do you think
I didn't give this weekend any thought?
You think I didn't go out and get
a new outfit and get my hair done,
and then drive for two hours
in traffic to get down here?
Look around you, Hayden.
Do you think
this evening isn't garbage?
Look,
I've told you before,
if this is what
you have to do, fine.
But just don't ask me to drive down here
from Minneapolis to sit and watch you suffer.
It breaks my heart.
Can you understand that?
Well, yeah.
Yeah, I can understand that.
Boy, been a jerk, huh?
I've been walking around
in this rage
and taking my anger out on everybody
else, you know, when the truth is,
there's only one person
to blame for all this.
Daryl MacKenzie.
Who?
I had him at safety.
I should never have put him
on defense.
I mean, the kid can't
concentrate, Christine.
I will be in the car.
You're impossible.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Where are you going?
Hey, now that I got this thing figured
out, I'm gonna be fine.
Christine, come on.
Boy, talk about me being irrational.
Oh, look who's back.
This is a surprise.
Shut up.
Hey, Christine, come on.
Look, Hayden,
there is nothing more to talk about.
If you want to let losing
destroy you, fine.
It's also destroying
our relationship,
and if you don't care
about that,
then your priorities
are all screwed up.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING)
Funny, you never see
that side of her on the news.
Hayden!
Hey, Christine.
Well, what are you doing here?
You haven't been here
all night, have you?
Yeah.
What have you been doing?
Well, you know, I got to thinking about
what you said last night, you know.
Maybe my priorities
are screwed up.
So, well,
I sat here all night,
and what I did was,
I made a list of the most
important things in my life
on these postcards,
right here.
Do you want me
to read them to you?
Okay.
I did an awful lot of drafts
of this stuff, you know.
'Cause, I mean,
stuff kept changing, you know.
Especially football.
Football kept changing.
I mean, I always thought that
football was number one in my life,
but more and more on the list,
it kept popping up number two.
It did?
Yeah.
Number three was finish
the season in the top 20.
Four was getting
to a Bowl game.
Number five was someday having
a stadium named after me.
And six was making it into the Hall
of Fame in my home state of Indiana.
And then seven was my health.
Eight was...
Hayden.
What?
How many items on the list?
On the list, there's 41.
Are you going
to read them all?
No. No, I don't have to,
I guess,
but, well, the point
of all this is that,
you know, after all these
lists, and after all this time,
without exception,
the number one item on the list was...
Was you and Kelly.
Really?
Yeah.
Now, I didn't try to break it down into
who was more important, you or Kelly.
I hope you don't mind.
No.
You know, after you left me here
and I got to thinking about it,
I realized that I felt worse about losing
you than I did about losing the game.
And I can't promise you that
if we lose again next week,
I'm not gonna be upset and angry because,
well, heck, it isn't gonna matter.
If we lose again next week,
I'm gonna be fired, so there that goes.
Hayden,
before we lose our grip
on what was starting
to be a very nice moment here,
I'd like to tell you that I've
been doing some thinking, too.
What happened last night
wasn't entirely your fault.
It wasn't?
Great.
All right. Why not?
Oh, look,
you're a competitive,
ambitious, intense guy.
It's what makes you
a good coach.
It's also what makes you
very attractive.
Yeah, well,
you didn't think so last night.
Because it's also what makes you
hell to be with when you lose.
But I realize that,
if we're gonna have
whatever this is
we're having here,
that I have to learn
to accept that about you.
Now, does that mean that you'll still
come down if we lose again next weekend?
Of course I will.
Because then
you'll be unemployed,
and you'll need someone
to help you through that.
You know something?
Now, the weekend isn't over yet.
We've still got today.
This is true.
What did you have in mind?
Well, we haven't lit
that fire yet.
And it is chilly out.
Let's go.
All right.
By the way, what time did you
let the team go home last night?
Oh, jeez!
I gotta call Luther!
filmed before a studio audience.
All right, let me tell you
what this is not.
This is not gonna be
a pre-game pep talk
because I don't think you guys
need a pre-game pep talk.
I don't think you need me
to stand up here and tell you
that you have the tools to win
when you know
you have the tools to win.
You know, I've put a lot
of teams on a lot of fields,
and this is one of the finest
teams that I've ever coached.
You have the game plan,
you have the desire,
and I know that's why we're
gonna win this afternoon.
And that's why I know you guys
don't need a pre-game pep talk!
Now, Wichita needs
a pre-game pep talk.
(ALL LAUGHING)
I mean, if I were coaching
that team of losers,
I think I'd be up here trying
to give you a pre-game pep talk.
Because I know
you're gonna go out there
and you are going to annihilate
Wichita this afternoon!
Now, if that were
about to happen to me,
I think I'd pay somebody to
give me a pre-game pep talk!
But you guys don't need
a pre-game pep talk!
Do you need
a pre-game pep talk?
No!
ALL: No!
Gentlemen, this
is our home opener.
This is our first game this
season before our families,
our school, our friends,
our Lord.
Now let's go out there,
and let's hurt some people!
ALL: Let's go! Hurrah!
Great speech, Coach.
Thanks, Daub.
Sure hope they believed you.
Oh, come on, there's no way we're gonna
lose this game this afternoon, Luther.
That's what you said
the first two games.
The first two games
were flukes.
We were on the road,
we had some injuries.
Those are plastic, Daub.
You know something, Luther?
I really need you to be up today.
I'm up.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Oh, is my dad busy?
Hi, Kelly.
Hi.
Hey, babe.
So this is what it's like
before a game, huh?
Well, you missed the pre-game pep talk.
That was pretty exciting.
Hey, you know, Luther,
why don't you and Daub go check on the team?
Right.
Might as well go out
and face the music.
Well, I just wanted to stop by
and wish you luck.
Well, you know something?
I always wanted to be coaching
and have you up there
in the stands cheering for me.
I'm going
with a bunch of friends,
so there's gonna be five of
us up there cheering for you.
Yeah, well, actually, I think there's
gonna be about 35,000 of you cheering.
See, 'cause a lot of people
come to these things.
That's good. Good.
(PHONE RINGING)
Look, I better get going.
I don't wanna miss the kick-off.
Okay. See you
after the game.
Yeah.
Okay.
Coach here.
CHRISTINE: Hi.
Hey, how you doing?
Great. I'm still
at the station.
How does it look today?
The game? No problem.
Shoe-in victory.
You promise?
Yeah, why? You worried?
No.
I just miss you, that's all.
It's been three weeks.
And whose idea was that, huh?
Both of ours.
You know our deal.
We can't see each other after you lose a game.
You're inconsolable.
Well, we're gonna
win this one today.
Why don't you just pack your bag and get over here?
I'll see you after the game.
Okay. Good luck.
Oh, forget luck.
We're going to win today
because we're the better team.
And luck has nothing
to do with it.
I'll see you after the game,
all right?
Bye.
All right.
(EXCLAIMING)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Get out of here.
Hey, Dad?
Oh, hi, sweetheart.
Come on in.
I brought some friends along.
I hope that's okay.
Oh, sure. Bring everybody in.
What the hell.
This is Shari, Lynn, Tobi, Karen.
Hi.
This is my dad.
We really enjoyed the game.
Yeah, sorry we couldn't
win one for you.
Oh, we didn't care.
We had dates.
So, Dad, are you okay?
Sure, fine. Yeah. Yeah.
Mom said you used to get kind
of upset after you lost a game.
I didn't lose the game.
The team lost the game.
I didn't.
Is it true we only had
10 men on the field?
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
So that's why the other team
was able to score the touchdown?
Uh-huh. Yeah.
Hi, Kelly.
Hi.
Team's in the locker room.
I don't care.
I know that.
I knew that. I just wanted you
to know they're counting to 11
like you told them
to practice on.
Good.
They've done it, oh,
probably 100 times so far.
Fine.
I just wanted
to let you know that.
I'll be in with the team
if you need me.
How much longer
do you think...
When I say so.
That's what I thought.
Nice to see you, Kelly.
Brought all your little
friends to the game, that's...
I think we should be going.
Yeah.
Nice to meet you, Coach Fox.
Right.
Hey, better luck
next time, huh?
Right.
Dad, are you sure
you're okay?
Oh, yeah. Sure. Fine.
I mean, listen, you know,
you don't have to pretend in front of me.
You know, it can't be fun
to lose like that
in front of the whole school
and everything.
Well, honey,
it's part of my job.
I tell you, this is gonna happen
when you're working with 60 young men
who are inexperienced,
immature,
brain-dead.
I'll call you tomorrow?
Super.
(SIGHING)
(PHONE RINGING)
Yeah.
Hayden, I am so sorry.
Yeah, well, you know.
The sportscaster said there
were only 10 men on the field?
Do you wanna talk about it?
No, no, I really don't.
Not really. No.
How soon can you get
over here?
I'm not coming.
What do you mean
you're not coming?
Christine, come on now.
It's been three weeks, you know,
since we've been together.
You know what I'm talking about, "together"?
I need us to be together.
I mean,
I need some togetherness here.
Let's get together.
What do you say? Come on now.
Believe me, I know it's been three
weeks, but we agreed.
I don't know how to help
you after you lose a game.
You won't talk,
you're irrational, angry...
Look, Hayden...
lam not irrational and angry.
Now, come on, I mean, I admit I spoiled
a couple of weekends in the past, okay?
Let's let bygones be bygones.
I'm over that stuff now.
I've got losing behind me.
Come on. I've been working
on some meditation.
I got some inner peace
exercises going for me.
Yeah, I mean, come on.
What do you need?
Hayden,
I want to say yes, but...
Then say it.
All right. I'm probably crazy to do
this, but we'll try it one more time.
Just promise me,
if you're not past it,
at least you'll talk about it.
Past what?
Now, just get down here as fast as you can.
I gotta see you.
Fine.
Bye.
Oh, Dauber, what the hell
are you doing out there?
I was just getting a drink.
My mouth got dry
from counting.
Dauber, you're a coach.
You don't have to count.
Oh. I'll go tell Luther.
Miss Armstrong
will be right down.
I saw you parking the car.
I called.
Thanks.
So you guys going out
to dinner tonight?
Yeah.
Touchdown Club?
I don't know. You tell me.
It's just that you guys have pretty
much the same routine every week.
Hey! Tough loss today.
Yeah.
I flew all the way
from Florida to see this game.
Ten men on the field, huh?
Boy, that was
a costly mistake.
Yeah, it sure was.
Cost me $900.
Hi.
Hi. Oh, boy,
am I glad to see you.
(CHRISTINE LAUGHING)
So are you hungry?
Yeah.
I made reservations
at the Touchdown Club.
Do you think that's a good idea?
I mean, it's so public.
I thought it would be
a lot nicer
if we go back to your place.
I could make us dinner.
Oh, you know, Christine,
now that's very sweet of you,
but I got this loss thing
behind me.
I just want to prove to you
that I can handle everything.
Now, come on. Let's go.
Hey, Coach, nice game.
Oh, do you got 11 singles
for a 10?
Hey, you know,
let's go to my place.
Did you want a salad,
or is the pasta gonna be enough?
Hayden?
Hmm?
Boy, everything smells great,
doesn't it?
I haven't cooked anything yet.
Well, I meant
the ingredients smell great.
You were thinking
about the game, weren't you?
No, I wasn't. No, I swear.
Oh, yeah, now, see, this is what
life is all about, isn't it, huh?
No TV newscasts,
no football games,
you know, just the two of us.
See, I've been really looking
forward to this weekend.
So have I.
You know, we don't have
to have dinner right away.
If you like,
we could open a bottle of wine,
curl up on the sofa,
rekindle the old fire.
Hayden?
Hmm?
Fire?
Right. It is getting cold
in here, isn't it?
Hayden! Hayden, why don't we
just admit that you're upset,
and we can talk about it.
Well, I don't wanna talk
about it.
I wasn't thinking about the game.
I was thinking about you.
You didn't hear
a word I said.
I heard every word you said.
Look, I got an idea.
Okay, now wait a minute.
Why don't we just put off
dinner, okay?
We'll open up 3 hottie of wine.
We'll curl up on the old sofa.
I'm gonna light a fire.
Now, how does that sound, huh?
Inspired.
All right, 'cause I know
this is gonna work.
Oh, Christine,
that lake is beautiful out here.
I mean, you know,
with the moon out,
you can see light and
shimmering stuff out there.
That is great,
you know that?
You're right.
It is beautiful.
Oh, it's funny.
No matter how many times I come out
here, I never get tired of it.
Just a feeling of tranquility
you can't find any place else.
(CHRISTINE SCREAMING)
What?
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Who is it?
LUTHER: Hayden!
Dauber, get away
from the window.
Hayden! This'll take two seconds.
Let me...
I'm sorry to bother you.
Hi, Christine.
Hi, Luther.
What do you want, Luth?
Can the team go home now?
No, no.
I know,
I didn't mean right now.
It's that they've been counting
to 11 for about six hours.
I want like a ballpark figure of when
you might be finished being mad at them.
Well, I'm not mad at them.
I want to teach them a lesson.
Right.
We'll just stick with it then.
All right.
Hayden, would it be okay
if we got something to eat?
Well, of course.
I'm not trying to punish anybody.
Yeah, well, that's a relief.
Nice to see you again,
Christine.
Nice to see you, Luther.
We can eat,
but we can't go home.
Just out of curiosity,
how long are you gonna keep them there?
Well, now, Christine,
don't try telling me how to coach here.
This isn't about coaching,
this is about being irrational.
No, I mean, I'm trying to
teach them a lesson, you know?
After all,
I am a representative
of an institution
of higher education.
Counting to 11
is higher education?
Well, for these guys, it is.
Hey, come on, look.
Now, I don't wanna talk about football, all right?
I wanna...
l wanna have our weekend.
I got an idea. Sit down.
And we'll open a bottle of wine,
and then we'll curl up on this sofa,
and we're just gonna forget
about everything that's happened.
I mean, we're gonna start
the evening over again, okay?
Now you tell me
about your week.
Well, let's see.
The station has decided
to go ahead with those promos
showing newscasters at home
to try to make us
look like real people.
That sounds great.
Only they don't like
my real home.
So instead,
they've built a set
that's supposed
to be my home,
and they've rented me a dog.
And I'm supposed to sit there
with my rented dog,
sipping cappuccino
and talking
about my childhood dream
of being
a broadcast journalist.
So I said to them,
"You want big ratings,
"forget home and hearth.
Let's just go straight for sex.
"Why don't I do
the promo naked?"
So actually
that's what we decided to do.
Yes, I took off
all my clothes,
they rolled the tape,
and I stood there in front
of everybody buck-naked.
Hayden?
Hmm?
What was I saying?
Something about a buck.
You got a raise!
Hey! Come on.
That's it.
That's it.
Take me back to the hotel.
Come on.
I wandered for two seconds.
My mind just...
Hayden. Hayden,
I can't do this anymore.
I can't pretend
I'm having a weekend.
You're still on the field,
and that's fine.
That's obviously
where you wanna be.
Why am I sitting here
keeping you from it?
Oh, Christine. Christine.
Hold it, Christine.
Now, look,
do you have any idea
of what it's like to lose?
I mean, have you ever spent
a week preparing for something
and then have to watch it turn to
garbage right before your very eyes?
No, gee, I wouldn't
have a clue about that.
You think I've never spent
an entire week
writing, shooting, editing a
story, and then having it dropped
because we ran out of time?
What about this weekend? Do you think
I didn't give this weekend any thought?
You think I didn't go out and get
a new outfit and get my hair done,
and then drive for two hours
in traffic to get down here?
Look around you, Hayden.
Do you think
this evening isn't garbage?
Look,
I've told you before,
if this is what
you have to do, fine.
But just don't ask me to drive down here
from Minneapolis to sit and watch you suffer.
It breaks my heart.
Can you understand that?
Well, yeah.
Yeah, I can understand that.
Boy, been a jerk, huh?
I've been walking around
in this rage
and taking my anger out on everybody
else, you know, when the truth is,
there's only one person
to blame for all this.
Daryl MacKenzie.
Who?
I had him at safety.
I should never have put him
on defense.
I mean, the kid can't
concentrate, Christine.
I will be in the car.
You're impossible.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Where are you going?
Hey, now that I got this thing figured
out, I'm gonna be fine.
Christine, come on.
Boy, talk about me being irrational.
Oh, look who's back.
This is a surprise.
Shut up.
Hey, Christine, come on.
Look, Hayden,
there is nothing more to talk about.
If you want to let losing
destroy you, fine.
It's also destroying
our relationship,
and if you don't care
about that,
then your priorities
are all screwed up.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING)
Funny, you never see
that side of her on the news.
Hayden!
Hey, Christine.
Well, what are you doing here?
You haven't been here
all night, have you?
Yeah.
What have you been doing?
Well, you know, I got to thinking about
what you said last night, you know.
Maybe my priorities
are screwed up.
So, well,
I sat here all night,
and what I did was,
I made a list of the most
important things in my life
on these postcards,
right here.
Do you want me
to read them to you?
Okay.
I did an awful lot of drafts
of this stuff, you know.
'Cause, I mean,
stuff kept changing, you know.
Especially football.
Football kept changing.
I mean, I always thought that
football was number one in my life,
but more and more on the list,
it kept popping up number two.
It did?
Yeah.
Number three was finish
the season in the top 20.
Four was getting
to a Bowl game.
Number five was someday having
a stadium named after me.
And six was making it into the Hall
of Fame in my home state of Indiana.
And then seven was my health.
Eight was...
Hayden.
What?
How many items on the list?
On the list, there's 41.
Are you going
to read them all?
No. No, I don't have to,
I guess,
but, well, the point
of all this is that,
you know, after all these
lists, and after all this time,
without exception,
the number one item on the list was...
Was you and Kelly.
Really?
Yeah.
Now, I didn't try to break it down into
who was more important, you or Kelly.
I hope you don't mind.
No.
You know, after you left me here
and I got to thinking about it,
I realized that I felt worse about losing
you than I did about losing the game.
And I can't promise you that
if we lose again next week,
I'm not gonna be upset and angry because,
well, heck, it isn't gonna matter.
If we lose again next week,
I'm gonna be fired, so there that goes.
Hayden,
before we lose our grip
on what was starting
to be a very nice moment here,
I'd like to tell you that I've
been doing some thinking, too.
What happened last night
wasn't entirely your fault.
It wasn't?
Great.
All right. Why not?
Oh, look,
you're a competitive,
ambitious, intense guy.
It's what makes you
a good coach.
It's also what makes you
very attractive.
Yeah, well,
you didn't think so last night.
Because it's also what makes you
hell to be with when you lose.
But I realize that,
if we're gonna have
whatever this is
we're having here,
that I have to learn
to accept that about you.
Now, does that mean that you'll still
come down if we lose again next weekend?
Of course I will.
Because then
you'll be unemployed,
and you'll need someone
to help you through that.
You know something?
Now, the weekend isn't over yet.
We've still got today.
This is true.
What did you have in mind?
Well, we haven't lit
that fire yet.
And it is chilly out.
Let's go.
All right.
By the way, what time did you
let the team go home last night?
Oh, jeez!
I gotta call Luther!