Play The Game: A Jock 'N' Roll Story - From Football Players to Bodyguards for Queen

A group of brainy football players on America's worst college football team tackle the 
challenge of becoming the security team for rock legends Queen. 
Their whirlwind journey gives them an education in life and a chance to feel like champions at last.

Photo: Dick Darrell/Toronto Star via Getty Images

“Here we were — a bunch of big ol’ Midwest, Ivy League-brained, corn-fed mama’s boys — on the road with the biggest band in the world. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.”  

 -Walt Versen

The Story

Photo: Courtesy Northwestern University Archives

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