Sports reporter Pete Barnes has ruined his career as a star reporter of the NFL with low quality tabloid style exposes of a series of star players, he is also in trouble in his private life. The editor of a tabloid magazine gives Pete a final chance to prove himself with a simple report on a 19-year-old football star called Spanks Voley, who is starring in a football movie and looks set to be a major star. As Pete digs around in the history of Spanks he discovers he is not all he seems to be.