Our tale begins with a bum on the run, fleeing from the scene of a horrible crime. Of course, it was not him that committed the crime, but instead a feral, animal-like young woman... and she knew that she'd been seen in the act! However, our wino friend did indeed make it to the police before she could get to him, too, and told them everything he'd seen. Not that they believed him, of course.

Since the local cops weren't helpful, the wino went to call the President for help, but when he saw an ad for Kickers, Inc. in the phone book, he decided to call them instead... Meanwhile, during their quarter-final season game, the football-playing Kickers are discussing Jack's 'edge', and how it seems to have caused more trouble than it was worth lately. They were interrupted by Coach Kirby, however.

Getting back out on the field, the Smashers then trounced upon their current opponents, the L.A. Runners. Soon after, feeling like celebrating, Suicide tried to get his fellows to go celebrate with him, since he managed to score the winning touchdown, but nobody was feeling up to it. So, he wandered off on his own, and wound up at the Kickers headquarters, where he ran into Darlene and her new secretary.

Since he was bored, he decided to look into a mystery call the team had received, from some guy in Jersey about a bizarre murder at a circus. Showing up as the place was packing it up in preparation for a move, he found the wino who called Kickers, Inc. earlier, and listened to the man's story. Playing along, Suicide patronized the man until he found the corpse of a very large woman packed in a box.

After calling the cops, Suicide was waylaid by She-Man, one of the circus' resident freaks, who beaned him upside the head with a baseball bat. S/he managed to hide the unconscious Kicker when the cops arrived to investigate his call, though they didn't find the body that Suicide did; you see, they fed the impressively large corpse to Whitemane, an albino lion belonging to the circus.

However, all was not lost, as one of the policemen investigating Suicide's call tried to get ahold of him via the Kickers' 1-800 number, and when they determined something was amiss, the rest of the Kickers assembled to find their pal. Arriving on the circus scene as various members of the freak show planned a museum robbery, the Kickers found Suicide locked up in Whitemane's cage!

Of course, Idget (the show's resident short person) injected the lion with a drug cocktail to make it extremely violent, and since Suicide was in its cage, he was in a bad, bad way. Trying to save their pal, the Kickers fought their way through Idget, She-Man the half-man / half-woman blade master, Nip and Tuck the trapeze twins, Felina the cat-lady, and Senor Leon the lion tamer to free him.

After his pals got trounced, Idget threw the keys to the cage into the cage, so Jack had to reveal his powers yet again in order to get in there and save Suicide, though he accidentally killed Whitemane in the process. After this, the Kickers got the cops back there so they could arrest these goons, they went home, though Jack was feeling real bad about killing that lion.

Still pining about his lack of control, Jack totally exhausted himself over the next couple of days, so his edge wouldn't cause him to injure anybody else while on the field. So, once their final season game was on, that being the Smashers vs. the Chicago Comets, Jack didn't actually hurt any of his teammates, or seriously screw up any plays thanks to his super strength - though he did hurt one of the Comets.

Jack didn't realize this until after the game, however, and when he found out, he was despondent with grief. As such, he decided that he wanted to make sure that he didn't hurt anybody else when playing football, so that night, he chose to go talk to the NFL football commissioner about his 'edge' to some extent; he didn't tell him about his super powers, so much as his brother's 'intensifier' treatments...

Wanting to make sure there were no illegal substances in his bloodstream in the face of his revelation to the football commissioner, the league had Jack go through a battery of tests to make sure he wasn't on steroids (or crack or some such). While a league doctor took blood and urine samples, the rest of the Kickers were having a much better time, doing commercials for Kickers, Inc.

Of course, while they were making commercials for their non-profit organization, the pro ball players were making serious charitable contributions of their own, mostly to a group that worked for disabled children - a bunch of which were there to meet the Smashers. As the Wreckers finished up their own television spots (they'd be playing the Smashers there in the Super Bowl), Jack finally showed up.

After meeting the kids present, including Sally Rothman (who was apparently disabled as well), Jack told Darlene what he was up to that day, which only ticked her off even more. This, of course, was because she'd been telling Jack he needed to do something about his lack of control with his powers - not pass the buck on to others, like the football commission.

Their discussion escalated into an argument, and by the time they got to their hotel room, Jack wound up smashing some hotel furniture in anger after more shouting... proving Darlene's point more than anything she could say herself. Thinking her right, Jack went to think things out, though he didn't come up with any magical epiphany by the time the next Smashers practice session was due.

While the team worked out their strategies for the game, Coach Kirby dragged Jack into the owner's office, in order to badger him about his talks with the football commissioner. Kirby went into a bizarre, patriotic ramble about moms, apple pies, and team responsibilities, while the owner, Christine Chase, griped at him about how the doctor who tested Jack earlier wanted to see her right away.

Going into her office with the owner and Coach Kirby, Jack found out that the tests he took showed extremely high levels of 'pseudo steroids' in his blood, most likely a by-product of his paranormal powers, and that the story of 'Ugly' Mack Thornton - who was there also - added evidence of irregularities, irregularities which could be solved by a second round of tests - tests Jack refused.

He felt he was being railroaded, as did Coach Kirby. However, he had made up his mind, and decided that he wasn't going to play in the Super Bowl after all, much to the chagrin of his teammates - and Darlene, too. In fact, Jack practically vanished off the face of the earth over the next week, and when the Smashers played the Wreckers, nobody could find Jack anywhere.

He was watching the game from the stands, you see, in disguise; nobody seemed to notice that he was there, in fact, save for one Scott Templar, that C.I.A. fellow who'd been looking into the weirdnesses surrounding Jack's story on that hijacked plane - and the rest of his life, as of late. Needless to say, though, without Jack in the game, the Smashers lost the Bowl to the Wreckers.

In the fallout of the loss, Coach Kirby went ballistic, cussing up a storm at everybody in the locker room, even Darlene when she came looking for Jack. Of course, Jack wasn't there, as he decided to go through with that doctor's second round of tests after all. The bad part about that, though, was that the man seemed to be rather... happy to check Jack out... doing so with an almost sinister look in his eye...

This episode in the lives of Kickers, Inc. begins with the team looking over various Kickers investment opportunities - all of which happen to be shameless scams. Discarding the lot of them, the team is stunned to get a singing telegram from the owner of the Smashers, one Christine Chase, who is holding something of a press conference about the future of the team.

Of course, being obsessed with her high society lifestyle, Christie, or C.C. as she likes to be called, doesn't bother to be on time for the thing; instead, she settles in for a tennis game against her best friend, and betting on the outcome with her, manages to win a cool $50,000. However, she receives a subpoena soon thereafter, one sent because she hadn't paid off her extreme gambling debts yet.

Meanwhile, having waited over a half hour for the lady to show up, the Smashers find that the reporters waiting for C.C. to show up have gotten rather uppity, with one Arnie Beaker being particularly acidic. After throwing several nasty questions at Jack regarding his 'drug problem', Brick Wall prepared to throw Beaker out of the conference, but C.C. showed up at just that time.

She then announced that she was selling the Smashers to a group of Los Angeles investors, who planned on moving the team out west. This caused quite a ruckus from the assembled press in the room, though C.C. blew them off like they were beneath her, being so obsessed with her 'blue blood' status and the like. She then left abruptly, leaving everyone in the room stunned by her news.

That next week, at a banquet honoring the owners of various football teams, a crazed Smashers fan tried to kill C.C. with a old, rusty looking knife for her plans to sell the team, though Jack, having been invited as the Smashers' star quarterback, managed to save her life. When C.C. asked what she could do to thank him, Jack simply asked her to explain why she was selling the team off.

She then invited him to her home the next day, so she could do so. Though he was suspicious about her aims, Jack nonetheless showed up, only to find out that she was selling the Smashers to settle her excessive gambling debts. That, of course, was when C.C.'s gigolo, Len Dawson, offered a wager between Jack and C.C. to determine the ultimate fate of the Smashers - a wager over a tennis game!

Jack didn't like the idea, as he'd never played tennis before, but if he won, C.C. would keep the Smashers where they are. He grew to further dislike this idea when, after C.C. left, Len told Jack that he'd lose his job if he didn't throw the game. However, Jack decided that he owed the fans this victory, even if it cost him his job - his very career, even! As such, Jack agreed to the wager.

As such, when the game was on, on cable television no less, Jack gave the game his all, having been practicing with Darlene over the last week. Though he was far less skilled than C.C. in tennis, his 'edge' more than made up for the difference in training, and giving the game his all, Jack managed to royally trounce the blue-blood snob at her own game, humiliating her on national television.

Of course, after ditching Len for offering the silly idea, C.C. then fired Jack from the Smashers once he left the stadium where the tennis game took place. She'd decided to get even with the man no matter what it took, you see, and was planning on ruining his life. She even pulled up to his house in her limo to watch his face upon reading that 'you're fired' telegram... she's that nasty...