A comedy series about a pro football player who returns to his home town of Evening Shade, Arkansas, to coach the local high school team. Wood Newton struggles to help the perpetually losing football team with the help of an assistant coach, the slight math teacher Herman Stiles. Wood's younger wife Ava embarks on a new career as the town's prosecuting attorney as well as raising their three children 15-year old Taylor, 7-year-old Molly, and 4-year-old Will. Due to Wood's botched vasectomy Ava is expecting a fourth child. Her father Evan Evans runs the local paper and her talkative Aunt Frieda is always around to voice her opinion. In this frantic atmosphere Wood often takes time to relax at Ponder Blue's Barbeque Villa with his good friend and family physician Dr. Harlan Elldridge.