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40% on Rotten Tomatoes; Ebert called it a predictable football movie that lacks intensity; Van Der Beek won Teen Choice and MTV Movie Awards breakout honors; shaving cream stood in for the whipped cream; Wendell's actor played at Stanford and briefly for the Kansas City Chiefs; Billy Bob's actor tore his patella tendon during the shoot; Mox wears number 4 for Brett Favre; Van Der Beek stopped playing football after an eighth-grade concussion
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- The film has a 40% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so 60% of people are idiots; Roger Ebert is quoted calling it a predictable football movie that lacks intensity, which the hosts reject, since the coach does a Hitler salute.
- True or false: Van Der Beek won breakout movie star at the Teen Choice Awards and breakout male performance at the MTV Movie Awards; true, and since it was an MTV production the hosts suspect it was semi-rigged.
- Shaving cream was used in the whipped cream sundae scene because whipped cream would not stick to Allie Larder; whether it sticks to anyone else is unknown.
- The actor who played Wendell played at Stanford and had a cup of coffee with the Kansas City Chiefs as a strong safety; the Billy Bob actor tore his patella tendon during the shoot, which is why he is shot from odd angles and the hook and ladder looks weird, and they still ran it with three guys on his back.
- Mox wore number 4 because Van Der Beek's favorite player was Brett Favre, read on IMDb that day; the claim that Billy Bob was 38 when filmed is false, with the actor recalled as 47 when he died about a year ago and 28 at the time; Van Der Beek had to stop playing football in eighth grade after a concussion, so they knew.