This film is the highest-grossing sports comedy of all time, while another Adam Sandler vehicle, Spiel ohne Regeln (2005), is the second highest-grossing sports comedy of all time.

The South Central Muddogs' stadium is the DeLand High School football field in DeLand, Florida. The school agreed to let Director Frank Coraci use the field if he paid for the stadium to be refurbished after filming.

Henry Winkler's role as Coach Klein came about after he was mentioned in Adam Sandler's huge hit "The Chanukah Song", where Sandler sang about various Jewish or half-Jewish entertainers. Sandler said, correctly, that the actor who played Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on Happy Days (1974) is Jewish, and Winkler was thrilled by the reference and contacted Sandler to tell him so. Sandler then decided to ask Winkler if he would read the script for the coach's role, and then say if he wanted to take the part. Winkler did so and immediately signed on to the film.

As of 2010, this is Adam Sandler's highest-grossing film at the U.S. box-office.

When the film was released in November of 1998, it was preceded by the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I - Die dunkle Bedrohung (1999). Many Star Wars fans who were not fans of Adam Sandler paid the full admission price and sat through the trailer, then left the theater.

Kathy Bates was convinced to take the role of Helen "Mama" Boucher by her niece, a longtime fan of Adam Sandler.

Most of the extras playing fans at the Bourbon Bowl are UCF students.

This movie was the highest-grossing football/sports film of all time, before being beaten by Blind Side - Die große Chance (2009). Kathy Bates appeared in both as well.

There were two mules trained for this film, named Steve and Billy. The mule in the film is Steve. Steve would not "bray excitedly", so when a mule is heard, it is Billy braying.

The inspiration for this movie is a combination of Adam Sandler's song "The Lonesome Kicker", "Canteen Boy", and the "Cajun Man" sketches from Saturday Night Live (1975).

Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent screen star Harold Lloyd, filed a fifty million dollar lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company in 2000, claiming that this movie was plagiarized from Lloyd's silent film classic Der Sportstudent (1925). By 2002, the courts ruled against her.

This was the final acting role of Jerry Reed.

During an interview with ESPN, LaVar Arrington (LB New York Giants) mentioned that in preparation for his role in the movie, Adam Sandler had visited him at Penn State to watch him practice.

Captain Insano, the pro wrestler that Bobby idolizes in the film, is played by Paul Wight, a pro wrestler who wrestled in WCW before it was bought out by the WWE in 2001. Known as "The Big Show".

The climactic Bourbon Bowl scene was filmed at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. However, the flyover shown in the film is actually of Williams-Brice stadium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

This is the third movie where Adam Sandler's characters love interest, Vicki Vallencourt, has the initials V.V. After Veronica Vaughn in Billy Madison (1995) and Virginia Venit in Happy Gilmore (1996).

In the German version of this film, Adam Sandler is not dubbed by Dietmar Wunder as usual. Instead, the German Disney subsidiary used comedian Matthias Knop to perform the dubbing. At the time, Knop was successful with his character "Super-Ritchie" (a kind of extremely dumb-minded version of Superman) and he performed the dubbing in the same manner of speech as his "Super-Ritchie" character. The film was widely panned by critics and audiences alike and the dubbing is regarded as one of the worst in history.

The cheerleaders and outfits in the film were donated by Boone High School in Orlando, Florida.

One of the sports headlines reads, "S.C.L.S.U. UPSETS LOUISVILLE 5 - 0." However, the only way to score five points in football is to get a field goal (three points) and a safety (two points). The headline implies that the only two players to score in that game would have been Bobby and the kicker, Derek Wallace, who was the only player who never picked on Bobby.

The film is included on the film critic Roger Ebert's "Most Hated" list.

Coach Red Beaulieu's (Jerry Reed's) last name is French and literally translates to "beautiful place" in English.

The first of many Adam Sandler movies to feature Rob Schneider.

Adam Sandler's favorite classic movie of all time is The Wizard of Oz (1939). Fairuza Balk (Vicki Vallencourt) played Dorothy in Return to Oz (1985).

When Bobby (Adam Sandler), Helen "Mama" Boucher (Kathy Bates), and Vicki (Fairuza Balk) are at the barbecue, Mama Boucher says before leaving, "Now you come on inside 'fore that little ol' witch cast a spell on you." Fairuza Balk played a witch casting spells in The Craft (1996).

Henry Winkler's first appearance in an Adam Sandler movie.

The scene on the air boat with Bobby, his mama Helen, and Vicki was filmed on the Crooked River in Clermont, Florida.

The first of many Adam Sandler movies to reach one hundred million dollars at the U.S. box-office.

The message behind the film is "It doesn't matter what other people think of you, you can achieve anything".

The Offspring's song, Original Prankster (2000), prominently features a sample of Rob Schneider's character, The Townie, from The Waterboy (1998) uttering the line, "You can do it!"

Frank Coraci, who plays Bobby's father, Robert, is only seven months older than Adam Sandler (I) in real life.

Frank Coraci: Bobby's father, Robert.