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Necessary Roughness and Higher Learning reunions; South Carolina-Tennessee game filming; Duane Davis's injury claims; Mike Hold as Kane's double; unscripted final-play fumble; real-life inspirations; Sheffer's hit claims
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- Latimer and Alvin Mack were teammates in Necessary Roughness; Mack's actor also played football players in Beetlejuice; Epps, Swanson and Latimer's actor were all in Higher Learning.
- Fans in orange are visible in the crowd shots from the South Carolina game even though nobody in the game wears orange, perhaps because the opponent was Tennessee.
- Mack's actor claimed he blew out his knee at Mizzou and that two stuntmen blew out their knees on the injury play, which is doubted after slow-motion review.
- Today there would be a week of coverage on the making of the movie.
- Joe Kane's football double was South Carolina quarterback Mike Hold, whose ISO passes are gorgeous; a star label is admitted to be thrown in.
- Action for three games was filmed in 16 minutes during South Carolina's October 31 game against Tennessee; Hold's unscripted fumble and sidearm pass to Epps made the film, though his hand was moving forward and it should have been incomplete.
- Latimer was based on the 1988 Sports Illustrated steroid story, a Penn State quarterback inspired the rehab plot, and the coach's-daughter plot came from another story.
- Sheffer's claim of taking big hits and doing a full 360 is mocked, along with a made-up quote.