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1. #001

   The original version of the film included a scene in which several ESU players lie on the yellow dividing line of a busy local road to test their courage. After two teenagers were killed and several others injured while imitating the stunt, Buena Vista cut the scene from the film. The scene appears on the Hong Kong Laserdisc and the Australian Region 4 DVD.

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2. #002

   The film was shot at the University of South Carolina and includes locations around Columbia as well as Williams-Brice Stadium.

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3. #003

   Bobby Collins was named after the former head coach of Southern Methodist University (SMU). Coincidentally, he was the coach at the time SMU's football program was shut down due to severe NCAA sanctions that led to the "death penalty."

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4. #004

   Some of the featured extras have crew names on the backs of their football jerseys. WARD (writer and director David S. Ward), KLOPP (set decorator Kathe Klopp) and McLAGLEN (first assistant director Josh McLaglen) are clearly visible.

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5. #005

   Andrew Bryniarski and Duane Davis played teammates in Necessary Roughness (1991).

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6. #006

   Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson and Andrew Bryniarski appeared in Higher Learning (1995).

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7. #007

   The character Steve Lattimer, played by Andrew Bryniarski, bears a striking physical and story resemblance to real-life former professional football player Tony Mandarich. Like Lattimer, Mandarich played college football at Michigan State University while abusing steroids and claiming to be clean. Both the fictional Lattimer and the real Mandarich were praised as physical specimens; Mandarich himself was said to weigh 330 pounds and to be able to run the 40-yard dash in 4.65 seconds. The scene in which Lattimer gets an "oil change" is nearly identical to the story Mandarich told about how he passed a drug test at the 1987 Rose Bowl. Unlike Lattimer, Mandarich was not found to have used drugs in college. He managed to be selected in the NFL draft, where he claimed to have stopped using steroids because the league had stricter testing than the NCAA. Just like Lattimer, Mandarich found he could not perform at the same level without steroids, and his NFL career ended after only nine years, including a four-year gap between teams.

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8. #008

   Kristy Swanson dyed her hair from the normal blonde color she naturally has.

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9. #009

   This was Halle Berry's second film to begin with a football game played in the rain (The Last Boy Scout, 1991).

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10. #010

    Abraham Benrubi and Omar Epps appeared in the television series ER (1994).

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11. #011

    Joey Lauren Adams and Kristy Swanson appeared in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy (1999).

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12. #012

    The film's cast includes one Oscar winner, Halle Berry, and one Oscar nominee, James Caan.

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13. #013

    James Caan, who plays a football coach in this film, had previously played football player Brian Piccolo in "Brian's Song."

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