Quotes
 . Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Huddle up! Look, I`m sure you already know this, but I`ve never said it out loud. I *did* throw that game. I did it. I was in a bad way with some worse people. After I did it, I felt so shitty, I wish I would have just let them kill me instead. Now the warden wants to pin Caretaker`s murder on me if I don`t throw *this* game. So it looks like I`m going to get to know you guys a lot better because I aint doing that twice in a lifetime. We got a little time left. We can still do this. I`m begging you. Put your hands in here. Ok, thank you. Who are we?
[Team shouts, "Mean Machine!", and takes the field]
Turley: I`m glad you`re back. Now I don`t have to stab you.
[after Crewe decides to come back to the game]
Turley: I`m glad you`re back, now I don`t have to stab you.
Caretaker: Look in your toilet, I left you a surprise.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: You took a shit in my toilet?
Caretaker: No, that`s what I left in Brucey`s toilet.
[last lines]
Deacon Moss: [Deacon and Battle pour Gatorade on Warden Hazen] Good game, sir!
Warden Hazen: That`s a week in the hotbox!
Joey Battle: Who gives a shit!
Deacon Moss: This is baby-back bullshit!
[after inmates score touchdown on trick play]
Guard Lambert: Is that legal?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yes, it is.
Guard Lambert: Is that a touchdown?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yes, it is.
Guard Lambert: Oh, goddamn it!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [after being pulled over by cops] Here, you can finish this beer for me... I`ve got five more!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [to the short cop] Now, listen here, Mr. Frodo, don`t get short with me.
Big Ears Cop: ...shit happens.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Shit does happen. I mean, look what happened to your ears.
Cheeseburger Eddy: [to Megget] Why you bein` a McAsshole?
Big Tony: [reading sign] Foot... ball... tree... outs. What the hell`s a tree-out?
Brucie: It`s try-out, you half a meatball.
Cheeseburger Eddy: You gotta always protect your McNuggets!
Chris Berman: Whooooop!
Walt: What happened?
Lena: He locked me in the closet and left me to die.
Walt: [gasps] He`s deranged!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [on TV after he crashes his girlfriend`s car] Hey, Lena, I think we should start seeing other people!
Walt: [watching on TV with Lena] I think I`m in love.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: You play football?
Caretaker: Me? No, I was so bad I was picked after the white kids. Guys would look at me and say, "Damn, we picked the only nigger can`t play."
Brucie: [Brucie is about to kick off] Our Savior Jesus, help me do this right and I promise to stop cheating on my wife with black men.
Cheeseburger Eddy: I knew you couldn`t resist my shit! I got the shakes that`ll make you quake. I got the fries that`ll cross your eyes. I got that burgers that`ll... I just got burgers.
Punky: [after the convicts won the game] We win! Group hug in the shower tonight!... or not. Or not.
Caretaker: We didn`t get the whole chocolate bar, but we did get a Hershey kiss.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: I will be your coach, your captain, your quarterback...
Brucie: You haven`t played in years! Why can`t I be quarterback?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: You`re right; let`s see what you got.
[throws ball to Brucie]
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Hit me; I`m open!
Brucie: [throws wild pass]
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: That`s why, now sit down and shut up.
Caretaker: [to an exceptionally fast runner] Run, Forest, run!
Caretaker: [Switowski has him in a bear hug] Down, Shrek, down!
Caretaker: That boy`s got slave feet.
Ms. Tucker: [to Brucie] You wish I`d kiss you `cos your breath smells like eight cans of shark shit.
Caretaker: That boy got slave feet!
Caretaker: He could catch a cold in the desert.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [drinking a toast with Caretaker] Here`s to the first friend I`ve had in I-don`t-know-how-long
Switowski: I thought I was your friend, Paul.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: You are my friend, Switowski. Just finish your coloring book and go to sleep.
Switowski: OK.
Switowski: I thought I was your friend, Paul.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: You are my friend, Switowski, just, finish your coloring book and go to sleep.
Switowski: OK.
Guard Dunham: Does the n-word offend you... nigger?
Earl Megget: No, sir.
Switowski: I`m sorry... I brokeded your toy.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Oh, no, it`s a good thing!
Switowski: Really?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yeah, you should share a celebration hug with Caretaker.
Caretaker: [lifts Caretaker in bear-hug and spins around laughing]
Caretaker: [to Paul] Asshole!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: I think Papajohn`s their safety.
Turley: [smiles, nods] I`ll play!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [to Caretaker] Hey, let`s have a maniacal pillow fight tonight! That should boost your rating!
Skitchy Rivers: Yeah, and we can sell it to Pay-Per-View - Superstar vs. Half-a-Star.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [to Turley] People have said that we look alike, so I just wanted to see for myself.
[Turley roars very loudly]
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: I`m gonna go take a piss.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [to Caretaker after seeing his half-star violence rating] You`re as maniacal as a box of kittens.
Guard Lambert: [Walks in and yells] Everybody stand for the warden!
Warden Hazen: [Walks in and sees how fat Tony is] Anthony wow! You can sit down!
Joey Battle: Thank God!
Captain Knauer: [after Crewe starts fight in lunch room] Stand up Crewe! You think you can do anything don`t you... well you`re no different than any other piece of shit that calls this place home...
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Really they all think you`re a dumb redneck too?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [Knauer takes a swing at Crewe with his night-stick amd Crewe catches it] You should really start cutting that shit out it`s gettin old...
Captain Knauer: That`s gonna cost ya...
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Looking forward to it...
Caretaker: [talking to crowd about the try outs] This is our chance to get a free shot at the guards!
Big Tony: And how are we going to do that?
Caretaker: Just show up at the tree-outs you big dumb bitch!
[Everyone laughs]
Switowski: He broke-ded my nose
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Let me try to fix that.
[Crewe fixes his nose]
Switowski: How do I look?
Caretaker: Much better, like a young Michael Jackson.
Switowski: I love little Mikey.
Guard Engleheart: If you have to cry, it`s okay. I`ll cry with you.
Switowski: Will you teach me to football?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Sure, I`ll teach you to football.
Caretaker: I`ll teach you anything. Just don`t eat me.
Brucie: [after being hit hard] I got a bird, his name is Ronnie!
Caretaker: Well, tell Ronnie you got knocked the fuck out!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [as he`s calling a play] Battle, you`re a psycho! Tony, you`re a fat shit! Hut!
Punky: [after Nate Scarborough decides to enter the game] You can do it! Get that old ass of yours in the endzone! We gotta win this game!
Ms. Tucker: Do the girls get to play?
Caretaker: No, we`re playing football, not balls-balls
Caretaker: Yo man, that`s my flyer, man. I worked hard on that. You see he ran like a little bitch right? You saw that right.
[Cheeseburger Eddy gets in his face]
Caretaker: Yo, the team needs you. Team needs you. You should come to the tree-outs.
Earl Megget: Y`all got a running back?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Not any good ones.
Cheeseburger Eddy: It ain`t easy being cheesy!
Deacon Moss: The only game I`ll play with you... is slap the point shaving white boy, til he cries like a baby back bitch.
Cheeseburger Eddy: baby back bitch, baby back bitch, baby back bitch, baby back bitch.
Caretaker: That`s a big ass robot
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [Crewe is being pulled over by the cops] Oh, man, here come the party poopers...
Guard Engleheart: [the guards are picking on Megget in the library] Bet you`d like to hit us, huh?
Earl Megget: [smiling] Hit you, sir? Nah. Y`all my friends!
Joey Battle: Wow, no bullshit! Football, against the guards?
Coach Nate Scarborough: Yep, full contact.
Joey Battle: Captain Knauer is the quarterback?
Caretaker: Yep.
Joey Battle: So I get to tackle him?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yeah, either that you can hit him over the head with that hammer.
Joey Battle: I wanna hurt him, not kill him.
Caretaker: Lets get outta here before that thing bites someone!
Caretaker: [introducing himself to Crewe] Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth- hey, you need Prozac, I`m your man. I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I mean me personally, I don`t understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you`re white! Smile!
Unger: The blood of the guards is gonna flow like the rivers of ancient Babylon!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: That`s good news.
Guard Dunham: [rock music on in locker room acting like he`s playing a guitar] This is how a white man plays a guitar.
Brucie: How come I cant be kicker? I was all state!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: All right let`s see what you got.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [kicks ball along the ground] ... that`s why you dumbass.
Baby Face Bob: [after the game, to Chris Berman] Remember Chris, criminals are people too...
[suddenly appears aggressive]
Baby Face Bob: Now give me your wallet!
Chris Berman: [Backs down a little and looks frightened]
Baby Face Bob: [laughs] Just kidding.
Guard Lambert: Crewe! I`ll see you on the field.
[bangs his head on a locker]
Coach Nate Scarborough: [to Crewe] I think he`s in love with you.
Guard Dunham: [after breaking off a long run, storms up to Megget] That`s how a white man runs the football!
Earl Megget: Man, you lucky I ain`t on defense. I`d crack you in that egg-ass head of yours!
Guard Dunham: Yeah, but you ain`t on defense. Are ya, bitch?
Earl Megget: Hey Switowski!
[he comes running over]
Earl Megget: You know what he said in the library?
[whispers to Switowski about Dunham calling Malcolm X then "N word", as Switowski`s eyes about pop out of his head]
Earl Megget: Yes. Him. Out!
Switowski: [Destroys Dunham with a huge hit on the next play. Everyone gathers around to look at Dunham and sniffs] I think I made-ed him shit himself.
Coach Nate Scarborough: I think he just shit himself.
All Sportswriters: I think he just shit himself.
Stretcher Guy: Oh man, this guy shit himself big time!
Switowski: [jumps up and down celebrating] I did! I did make-ed him shit himself!
Earl Megget: [as Dunmham is being carted off the field on a stretcher] I`ll be sure to send them books to the hospital, pimp!
Deacon Moss: And some diapers!
Captain Knauer: Do you have any idea who`s beating you out there? This was supposed to be a blow out and they`re showing you up in front of the whole nation. The whole nation!
Guard Engleheart: I like it when he`s angry.
Guard Engleheart: Stop booing, people. Both teams are trying very hard.
Guard Dunham: What the hell`s wrong with you? Stop acting like a damn cheerleader.
Guard Engleheart: Sportsmanship. Try it.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: I`ll tell you what bothers me the most warden. That you`re not coming to be out there on that field with us, gettin` what you got coming to you.
Warden Hazen: Only thing coming to me is victory.
Con Transvestite: What`s wrong with you? Jealous because I don`t cheer for you anymore?
Brucie: I don`t know what you`re talking about, Freak show!
Con Transvestite: Whatever, back freckles!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: [On the last play of the first half] Do you assholes remember that play we practiced in the mud?
Deacon Moss: What are you talking about? That was some schoolyard bullshit!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yeah, let`s try some schoolyard bullshit!
Switowski: [after Turley breaks his nose] I think he did it on purpose!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: No, he didn`t do it on puropse...
[glances over at Turley]
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Okay maybe he did.
Baby Face Bob: Do that sound again.
Chris Berman: Woooooop!
Baby Face Bob: [chuckles] I like that.
Guard Engleheart: Why are you yelling at me? All I did was care!
Caretaker: Who we gonna crush?
(prisoners team): The guards!
Caretaker: Who we gonna kill?
(prisoners team): The guards!
Caretaker: Who we gonna kiss?
Brucie: [shouting out loud all alone] The guards!
Caretaker: [smile] Gotcha.
Caretaker: [to Paul] Don`t give me that shit! O.J. Chopped his wife`s head off and still got some ass!
[Paul Spits out his drink in laughter]
[first lines]
Lorenzo: I love that dress.
Lena: Of course you do, Lorenzo, you made it.
Ms. Tucker: Paul... Paul I wanted to let you know that I am your biggest fan and that I`ll will be cheering my jailhouse boobies off for you on gameday!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Ok I appreciate that.
Ms. Tucker: Paul I appreciate you.
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Ok.
Brucie: All right are you done now?
Ms. Tucker: What are you just jealous because I don`t cheer for you anymore?
Brucie: Yea I don`t know what you’re talking about.
Ms. Tucker: Whatever back freckle!
Caretaker: Ain`t you guys glad you got a black man for a friend?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Why are there 2 glasses?
Caretaker: Shut up and pour me a drink, bitch!
Joey Battle: Wow no bullshit! Real football, against the guards?
Coach Nate Scarborough: Full contact.
Joey Battle: Captain Knauer is the quarterback?
Caretaker: Yep.
Joey Battle: So I get to tackle him?
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Yeah, you can either tackle him or you can hit him over the head with that *hammer*.
Joey Battle: [looks down at his crotch] I wanna hurt him, not kill him.
Caretaker: Lets get outta here before that thing bites someone!
Paul `Wrecking` Crewe: Alright we`ll see you and your pet iguana at practice.
Trivia
Snoop Dogg was attached to the film but dropped out.
Gary Oldman was in talks to play the prison warden but negotiations fell through.
Steve Austin tore his hamstring while training for the football scenes.
Burt Reynolds and Ed Lauter are the only two actors from the original film to appear in this remake.
This movie was shipped to theaters under the name "Uncle Bill".
Chris Berman`s play call of "Look at that little Meggett run!" is a reference to a famous "NFL Monday Night Football" (1970) incident. Howard Cosell`s original call of "Look at that little monkey run!" in describing Washington Redskin Alvin Garrett sparked a controversy and accusations of racism because Garrett was black. Berman even tries to imitate Cosell`s voice on the call. Berman also used this line and voice on ESPN when describing the play of former New York Giants running back Dave Meggett.
The movie was filmed in a closed down part of the New Mexico State Penitentary called "Old Main". It was this part of the prison where one of the worst prison riots in U.S. history occurred on 2 February 1980. The state offers the building for rent for film purposes.
Tim Herlihy, Sandler`s preferred screenwriter, was brought in to rewrite some dialog. He didn`t receive any credits.
Was to be filmed in Jefferson City, Missouri at a prison that was recently closed. However, city workers weren`t able to prepare the prison in time for production.
Edward Bunker`s last film.
Filming of the football game occured during El Camino College`s fall semester. As a result, the stadium set stayed up during El Camino`s home football games. Some of the extras in the crowd during the stadium scene are El Camino College students.
Burt Reynolds` wears the same number in both versions of the movie. He`s #22.
The video game played by the guards is Halo 2.
One of the police officers who pulls Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) over is Dan Patrick from "SportsCenter" (1979). He`s the tall officer with the mustache.
The cast of the movie includes WWE superstars. They are The Great Dalip Singh, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kevin Nash and Bill Goldberg. Also in the movie are former professional football players Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski and Brian Bosworth. Singer Nelly is also in the cast.
The numbers that Michael Irvin and Bill Romanowski wore (88 and 53) were the numbers they wore in the NFL.
Michael Irvin played a practical joke on Bill Romanowski while filming a scene in the locker room. Irvin replaced the fake, collapsible locker door that Romanowski head butts with a real, solid locker door. This can be seen as an outtake on the DVD.
The Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Saturday Night Special" featured in the early part of the chase scene at the film`s beginning was the same song used in the original 1974 version.
Brian Mann, quarterback of the Arena Football League team the Los Angeles Avengers, was Adam Sandler`s stunt-double.
Brian Bosworth jersey number was 44, which was his college football number
Adam Sandler`s character (Paul Krewe) was supposed to have played college football for Florida State Univesity and Pro football for Pittsburgh. Burt Reynolds, who starred in both films, was an All-American running back at Florida State and is an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
Five of the six members of the rap group D12 made cameo appearances as convicts playing basketball. The missing sixth member is Eminem who is referenced when Paul is referred to as "Slim Shady".
The fanfare used in the Paramount Pictures logo is found only in this film.
Krewe mentions a "tune-up" game in which he states "In college, we`d start every season against Appalachian State or some slack Division II team. Kick the living shit out of them." Two years after this movie was released, Appalachian State went on to win 3 National Championships in a row in Division IAA as well as defeating then number 5-ranked Michigan in a "tune-up" game.
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