De TEXAS STATE ARMADILLOS zijn vierde van onderen in het football-klassement en lijken kansloos nadat zij door een corruptieschandaal bijna waren uitgerangeerd. Dan wordt de oprechte Ed Gennero aangesteld als coach, met de opdracht een compleet nieuw team te vormen. Voor de positie van quarterback verlaat Gennero zich op Paul Blake, een 34-jarige voormalige high school football-ster die na zijn eindexamen niet verder is gekomen dan de boerderij van zijn familie. Blake gooit nog steeds als de beste, maar is hij in staat te scoren in een team met een Samoerai-aanvaller, een stuntelige vanger en een Samoaanse leider die alleen oog heeft voor de place-kicker?
Nee, helaas is Necessary Roughness nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Stan Dragoti | Director |
| Writing | Rick Natkin | Writer |
| Writing | David Fuller | Writer |
| Production | Mindy Marin | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dan Moore | Costume Design |
| Sound | Bill Conti | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | John Wright | Editor |
| Editing | Steve Mirkovich | Editor |
| Art | Paul Peters | Production Design |
| Camera | Peter Stein | Director of Photography |
| Production | Hawk Koch | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mace Neufeld | Producer |
| Production | Robert Rehme | Producer |
| Crew | Allan Graf | Stunt Coordinator |
| Production | Edwin 'Itsi' Atkins | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | John Hockridge | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Joseph J. Kontra | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Lis Kern | Associate Producer |
| Art | Lynn Wolverton-Parker | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Mark Van Loon | Camera Operator |
| Camera | David Knox | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Chris Hayes | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Zade Rosenthal | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Keith Gardner | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Tom Nelson | Production Sound Mixer |
| Directing | H. Bud Otto | Script Supervisor |
| Lighting | Robert Dracup | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Costume & Make-Up | Coree Lear | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mary Ann Valdes | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gail Freeman | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jeanie L. D'Iorio | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fred Lackey III | Assistant Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Barry Kellogg | Key Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Janet Lucas Lawler | Costume Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Stephen M. Chudej | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadine Reimers | Costumer |
| Directing | Terri Martin | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Mike Parsons | Property Master |
| Art | Robert E. Parsons | Assistant Property Master |
| Editing | Wayne Wahrman | Additional Editor |
| Art | John Parker | Leadman |
| Editing | Timothy Alverson | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Kathy Virkler | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Bobby Bell | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | J. Paul Huntsman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Joe Earle | Sound Editor |
| Sound | John Haeny | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Mary Andrews | Supervising ADR Editor |
| Sound | Avram D. Gold | ADR Editor |
| Sound | Jonathan Klein | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Jeff Rosen | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Adam Sawelson | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Matthew Sawelson | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Gary Lewis | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Pat McCormick | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Ralph Osborn | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Ken Kushnick | Music Supervisor |
| Sound | David Passick | Music Supervisor |
| Sound | Steve Livingston | Music Editor |
| Sound | Bob Baron | ADR Mixer |
| Sound | Marty Church | Foley Mixer |
| Sound | Robin Harlan | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Ellen Heuer | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Sarah Monat | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Paul Massey | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Robert Glass | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Tom Perry | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Lee De Carlo | Scoring Mixer |
| Sound | Jack Eskew | Orchestrator |
| Production | Janis Burklund | Location Manager |
| Production | Oona Villarreal | Assistant Location Manager |
| Crew | Jane E. Russell | Unit Publicist |
| Production | Debbie Schwab | Production Coordinator |
| Production | Amy Jill Wallace | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Production | Barbara Blanchette | Extras Casting |
| Production | Allison Bauer | Casting Associate |
| Art | E.W. Bradford | Construction Coordinator |
| Crew | Danny Carpenter | Transportation Coordinator |
| Crew | Joe D. Anderson | Transportation Coordinator |
| Crew | Robert L. Davis | Transportation Captain |
| Editing | Theresa Repola Mohammed | Negative Cutter |
| Editing | Bob Putynkowski | Color Timer |
| Crew | Jack Bennett | Special Effects |
| Crew | Jack 'Deuce' Bennett II | Special Effects |
| Production | Rody Kent | Local Casting |
| Directing | Allan Graf | Second Unit Director |
| Camera | Michael D. O'Shea | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Crew | Curtis Lupo | Stunts |
| Crew | Holly Ricker | Stunts |
| Crew | Randy Fife | Stunts |
| Crew | Lynette Gowrie | Stunts |
| Crew | Sandy Berumen | Stunts |
| Crew | Danny Epper | Stunts |
| Crew | Pamela Minick | Stunts |
| Crew | Steve Buster | Stunts |
| Crew | Rusty McClennon | Stunts |
| Crew | David Rowden | Stunts |
| Crew | Eric Norris | Stunts |
| Crew | Jeff Jensen | Stunts |
| Crew | Cotton Mather | Stunts |
| Crew | Gary Morgan | Stunts |
| Crew | William Washington | Stunts |
| Crew | Ben Scott | Stunts |
| Crew | Gus Williams | Stunts |
| Crew | Diamond Farnsworth | Stunts |
| Crew | Steve Hart | Stunts |
| Crew | Dick Dial | Stunts |
| Crew | Rex Pierson | Stunts |
| Crew | Bill McIntosh | Stunts |
| Camera | Allan Westbrook | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Bill Floyd | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | John Patrick Smith | Second Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Christopher Keen | Second Assistant Camera |
| Art | Robert Alcala | Set Dresser |
| Art | Gretchen Goetz | Set Dresser |
| Art | Edward M. Shewmake | Set Dresser |
