False Start

It’s 1968, where Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, have both been assassinated. African-Americans haven’t received many opportunities to play quarterback in Division I-A, college football’s highest level. M.L. Cotton is determined to overcome those odds at Mobile County High School in Dauphin Island, Alabama. He dreams of playing quarterback in college.
M.L. fights his way into competing at the Dixieland quarterback camp in Birmingham, Alabama run by college quarterback guru Phillip Hill. Hill dislikes M.L. because he hated black quarterbacks.
At the camp, M.L. is impressive but not enough where Hill recommends him to play any position except quarterback. M.L. refuses to give up and continues to pursue opportunities.
Off the field also becomes an issue for M.L. He meets Jennifer Monet, a white Hurricane victim from New Orleans. Her family owns an oil refinery in New Orleans and worth $20 million. M.L. and Jennifer fight their parents to date. She also attends Mobile County High School and surprisingly becomes M.L. biggest supporter chasing his dream.
But will Jennifer's love and M.L.'s determination be enough for him to reach his lifelong goal?