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
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.
