Despite being the constant target of gross jokes and public humiliation from the university football team players he serves, lowly water boy Bobby Boucher loves his job and thinks dispensing water to dehydrated athletes is life's greatest calling. However, when he is unceremoniously fired, for no reason other than pure ineptitude, Bobby gets a chance as a player for the neighboring down-and-out team.
You might argue that MAJOR LEAGUE started it this one, back in 1989, spawning the misfit sports genre. The formula isn't unheard of: a bunch of unlikelies suddenly find themselves in the middle of the league championship and the media spotlight for the first time in an insanely long amount of time. Or perhaps you'd argue that the real fuel for this movie came from 1994's FORREST GUMP, a classic pearl of a movie about those with less-than-average IQs finding the real hero inside of themselves. But maybe you'd most like to argue that Adam Sandler - of all people - could never do justice to either.