| Director | Angelo Pizzo |
|---|---|
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $2.2 million |
Taking place in the 1960s, My All American recounts the life of a young Freddie Steinmark and his dream of playing football in college. He is a strong-willed athlete with a big heart. In high school, Steinmark won the prestigious “Denver Post Gold Helmet Award” as Colorado’s top scholar-athlete. During his time on the high school football team, he meets Bobby, his best friend and teammate, and his longtime girlfriend Linda.
Despite Freddie's athletic abilities, he is smaller than most football players and is limited by his size. But his high school football coach tells Freddie that the University of Texas at Austin is interested. The Longhorns’ head coach, Darrell Royal, allows Freddie and his best friend Bobby to play collegiate football, and Linda also enrolls at the university.
Freddie and his peers face a variety of obstacles at the university and on and off the field. Bobby’s older brother dies fighting in the Vietnam War overseas, and Freddie begins to feel pain in his knee. Despite these challenges, Freddie and the Texas football team persevere, upending the team’s losing streak to win a slot in the 1969 Cotton Bowl Classic. But, Freddie is diagnosed with cancer, and has to have his leg amputated. He still supports the team standing on the sidelines on crutches.
Freddie later succumbed to cancer on June 6 1971 at the age of 22.