A terminally-ill billionaire former football star has his brain transplanted into the body of a young college quarterback for a shot at the NCAA National Championship he never won. But old ghosts like his lost college love and bad career decisions come back to haunt him. When his body starts to reject his brain, he has to choose between being great on the gridiron and winning back the woman he should have married.

SYNOPSIS:

Joe Wolfe’s motto is “Whatever it takes to win.” It helped him to the brink of an NCAA Football Championship while in college and made him a billionaire after a career-ending knee injury. Now terminally ill, Wolfe bets the bank on a brain transplant into the body of a young college quarterback from Kansas: brain-dead after a car accident. With a new life as the miraculously-recovered Shep Taggert, he hopes to get another shot at that National Title.

Wolfe-Taggert leaves his business empire in the hands of his assistant, Damon Kwong and sets off to capture the gridiron glory that eluded him. He starts his quest for victory where it first began over twenty years ago of MidWest State, his old Alma Mater. There he runs right into his former fiancée, Penelope Hope, the love of his life who left him after his knee injury. Bad enough, but Taggert watches as Penelope’s daughter Helen and her boyfriend Blitz (a wide receiver on the team) play out all the same mistakes he and Penny made two decades earlier.

Taggert struggles to juggle the pressures of an undefeated season and a shot at the NCAA Championship, parenting Helen and Blitz and pursuing Penelope while Damon tries to keep his empire afloat amidst rumors that Joe Wolfe is dead. It's made all the more complicated by the machinations of Penelope's boyfriend, Professor Underwood, and Shep's power-struggle with the Head Coach, Julius Jones. Worse still, there are signs that his body is rejecting his brain on the eve of the Championship game.

Taggert's forced to choose between risking his life and playing the game -- even though the next hit might kill him -- and giving up his dream for the sake of Penelope and Helen (who turns out to be his daughter). Oh, and appearing in court in a 22-year-old's body and trying to convince the judge he's really Joe Wolfe and not dead. Common sense says play it safe, but true to his character, Taggert decides “Whatever it takes to win.” What he doesn't know is he'll have to overcome a stacked deck created by Underwood (who's given the MidWest State playbook to the opposition) and the Machiavellian maneuvering of an investigative reporter looking for proof that Shep Taggert is really Joe Wolfe. It's fourth and long -- real long? Will Taggert convert against all the odds?

Quarterback Sneak is written by Don Hauka, a versatile writer with produced credits in television, radio and stage. He's also the author of the Mister Jinnah series of novels published by Dundurn Press. The film will appeal to audiences from 18 to 50+ with a rating of PG.