This is a fictional story of a senior quarterback named Dustin Buckley who plays college football for the University of Texas Longhorns. After another disappointing season under his belt he begins to take his frustrations out on his friends, family, and teammates. His image becomes greatly tarnished when he begins living the bad boy lifestyle filled with drugs, sex, and alcohol. Dustin's grades too take a major hit as well from his lack of studying. His coach begins to notice the change in his senior quarterback and quickly tries to help resurrect his positive image by making him help out in the community. Dustin is forced to volunteer at a homeless shelter and a football camp for under privileged children. Although, he's doing these good deeds its pretty obvious he doesn't want to be there. A month before the season is set to start he makes one final trip with the coach to a children's hospital where he meets a bunch of terminally ill children. A little seven year old girl named Amy catches Dustin's eye. Isolated from the rest of the children she sits on her bed coloring. She has terminal cancer which is why her head is shaved. Although, very sick she looks and acts very normal for her age. She is also a orphan abandoned by her father when her mother was pregnant with her and later abandoned on the street at the age of six. Dustin and her begin to form a strong brother/sister relationship. He starts to visit her every single day. Quickly his image starts to clear up again and soon he regains focus in and out the classroom. As the season is underway, Dustin finds great success with his new found confidence that Amy has helped him achieve. Through the season she watches him play on the sidelines. Undefeated and in the running for the Heisman trophy Dustin is sent off to New York City, where he wins the covenant Heisman trophy. Up next the Rose bowl. A week before the National Championship game against Notre Dame, Amy is granted permission by the doctors to go along with the team to Pasadena, as long as she is chaperoned by a nurse. The day before the championship game, Dustin and her spend some quality time together, he takes her to Disneyland with the team. The day is going great when suddenly Amy blackouts on a ride in which Dustin and her are riding. She is quickly rushed to the near by hospital, where she is treated, as Dustin waits anxiously. Soon a doctor approaches telling him that Amy is alive but must remain in their care, because she is beginning to decline in her health. Dustin makes his way into her room and finds her wired up with machines and oxygen. He begins talking to her explaining how he isn't going to play tomorrow and how he would rather be by her side as she always was with him. She weakly speaks back, convincing him that he must play tomorrow for her and she would take no excuses from him. Heavyhearted he complies. The next day the team suits up to face Notre Dame. The team takes a knee in the locker room, dedicating the game to Amy who rests in the local hospital. After saying their pregame prayers the team sets out onto the field with ''Amy'' on their eye black. The game begins a close one, up until the 2nd quarter when Texas begins making mistakes, helping Notre Dame takes a 21 points lead with all the momentum on their side. As the team sits in the locker room during halftime, discouraged and quiet, Dustin stands up and begins motivating the team on how they we're giving up and how Amy never gave up even through her terminal cancer. Quickly, thunderous roars are heard in the locker room from the newly rejuvenated team. They shoot out the tunnels with a burning fire lite in their bodies and spirit. It takes no time at all for the team to put some much needed points on the board. Soon the 4th quarter begins and the score is much more tighter. Notre Dame makes their much needed adjustments and their back in business. They run in for a touchdown on a punt return and their defense makes some key stops. Finally with less then a minute and thirty seconds of the clock with zero timeouts left, Dustin begins his drive down the field, making smart conservative passes. While at Notre Dames 45 yard line, his offense is shutdown through three plays. On 4th and 10 he falls back into the pocket and watches that all of his wide receivers are covered and the defensive line is penetrating through. He finds a receiver covered by two and launches it his way. The ball soars into the night, the fans go quiet as the ball tips the receivers hand and falls incomplete. Dustin falls to his knee's in disbelief, but soon realizes that a flag has been tossed for pass interference giving them the ball at the 20 and a 1st down. Only 14 seconds remain on the clock and again he throws two passes incomplete from Notre Dame's well guarded secondary. Now it's the final play of the game. 3rd and 10 but in reality is was a 3rd and 20 with 5 seconds left on the clock. Dustin hikes the ball and looks for open receivers but once again is unable to find any. With the Defense bringing the pressure, he decided on taking it in on his own. He rushes right trying his very best to shake off the defenders and receives some good blocking by his receivers. Making his way the the 10 only one man stands ahead of him. While running straight forward, the defender dives for his legs as Dustin hurdles him staggering after catching his foot on his pad. Dustin staggers himself into the end zone, breaking the plain. It's over, the Texas Longhorns are college football's National Champions. The team rushes into the end zone to celebrate with Dustin. Soon the confetti begins to fall and the sweet sound of ''We are the Champions'' erupts into the night sky. Afterwards the team takes stage for the presentation of the Crystal trophy, but the team quickly receives words that Amy is on her final breaths. The team Dustin and the team quickly rushes over to the hospital, still in uniform. As the team waits patiently, the doctor comes into the room and calls Dustin over, telling him that she only want to talk to him. Once inside the room he drops to his knee's and begins weeping. Telling her that they are Champions and couldn't have done it without her. He begs of Amy to fight through it, and that he loves her, but Amy slowly awakes, speaking out weakly to him that she's in too much pain and is happy to go to heaven and that he's the most important person in her life. While Dustin rests his head on her shoulder, wailing, she asks him if he would adopt her. Stunned by her request, Dustin sadly but happily obliges. She gives him and weak smiles and thanks him, calling Dustin, Daddy, before shutting her eyes and passing away. Dustin stays by her lifeless body the rest of the night. A week later Dustin legally becomes Amy's father, after her death. The movie ends with Dustin looking through a photo book of Amy, him and the team.
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