Rewatchables Reference

• Ali Larter – the whipped cream bikini is the ultimate heat check entrance. She only has about seven scenes and in two of them she's either having sex on a dryer or changing in a car. Also innovated the 'let the dryer do the work' technique.
• Scott Caan as Tweeter – Wes Welker crossed with Charlie Sheen. Could have been spun off into his own Fox sitcom.
• Billy Bob – greatest fat guy in movie history. The channel-flicking scene is a classic.

• Bill's pick: the locker room fight – the team turns on Coach Kilmer after he tries to shoot up the injured running back. Van Der Beek, Scott Caan, and Paul Walker stand up together.
• Shea's pick: the whipped cream bikini – 'I will stop for whipped cream bikini every time.' Basic human instinct.
• The 'I don't want your life' speech is also a top contender – Van Der Beek's Texas accent is rough but the moment is iconic.

• The 'I don't want your life' scene – Van Der Beek's Texas accent is very tough, but the line delivery is incredible. 'Playing football at West Canaan may have been the opportunity of your lifetime, but I don't want your life.'
• Jon Voight as Coach Bud Kilmer – he thought he was in an Oscar-winning movie. The most over-the-top sports movie coach of all time. His first scene includes a Nazi salute at a pep rally. Came out a year after Billy Zane's 'career performance' in 'Titanic'.
• The dads trying to determine who's the best quarterback in Texas by throwing a ball three yards.

• The football scenes – shockingly good for a teen movie. Pre-concussion-protocol era football that's well-filmed.
• The use of the hurry-up, no-huddle spread offense – they basically imply Moxon invents the spread. The movie references Mississippi Valley State as spread innovators, which is a real and underappreciated piece of football history.
• The late-'90s soundtrack – Foo Fighters, Fastball, Collective Soul, Third Eye Blind, The Offspring. A phenomenal time capsule that deserves its own satellite radio channel.
• The concussion subplot – Billy Bob getting forced to play through head injuries was a major plot point in 1999, a full decade before the NFL even acknowledged concussions were bad.

• The entire team goes to a strip club, gets entertained by their teacher, and stays until dawn drinking shots. High school students.
• There's no way they don't already know their teacher is a stripper in a small town – somebody's dad came home drunk one night and told his kid.
• Tweeter's philosophies on women – extremely rough. 'She broke my heart so I broke her jaw.'
• Every single player on the team except Wendell is white – in Texas.
• Van Der Beek's wide-leg jeans tucked into a jersey with a watch. Those jeans did not age well.

• 40% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Roger Ebert wrote: 'It's a predictable football movie that lacks intensity.' The hosts strongly disagree.
• Van Der Beek won breakout movie star at the Teen Choice Awards and breakout male movie performance at the MTV Movie Awards.
• Shaving cream was used because whipped cream would not stick to Ali Larter.
• The actor who played Wendell played at Stanford and had a cup of coffee with the Kansas City Chiefs.
• Ron Lester (Billy Bob) tore his patella tendon during the shoot – that's why the hook-and-ladder looks weird. He was 28 years old in real life.
• Van Der Beek wore #4 because Brett Favre was his favorite player. He stopped playing football in 8th grade after a concussion.

• James Van Der Beek – debate between this, Dawson's Creek, and his second life as a meme. Mallory thinks it's the later Dawson years.
• Ali Larter – debate between this and Heroes.
• Jon Voight – no, he won an Oscar for Midnight Cowboy. Also fathered Angelina Jolie. Bill says Anaconda is his apex.
• Billy Bob (Ron Lester) – sadly yes, this was his apex. He passed away.
• Paul Walker – definitely not. Fast and the Furious is one of the great apexes. Everyone agrees he would have been the biggest star from this movie.

• No assistant coaches – when Kilmer leaves at halftime, the children literally call plays by committee for a division title game. The other coaches apparently follow the Nazi ideology: when the leader falls, all subordinates fall with him.
• Coach Kilmer only won two state titles in 30 years – that's not good enough to have a stadium named after you. Coach Eric Taylor won two in four years.
• Mox says he'll never play football again, but they made the playoffs. Where'd he go?
• Billy Bob plays Right Guard instead of Left Tackle – you'd protect a right-handed quarterback's blind side. Then he somehow ends up on the left sideline for the hook-and-ladder.
• They run a hook-and-ladder from the 17-yard line instead of kicking the field goal to send it to overtime.
• Mox hears from Brown in the fall – that's not how college admissions works.
• Van Der Beek shoots a shotgun at Kilmer's face on a billboard from 30 yards away and hits only the face. That's not how shotguns work.
• High school students stayed at a strip club until dawn drinking shots with their teacher.

Danny Trejo – yes, because there are no Latinos in this movie and it's set in Texas. Danny Trejo is Ray's dad, in the same boat as everyone else.

• Did the Coyotes cover the spread in the final game? Bill thinks they were three-point underdogs and they covered.
• The closing credits say Coach Kilmer never coached again – do you believe that? The hosts don't. He probably went two towns over where nobody knew him.
• If you switched Van Der Beek and Paul Walker's parts, is this a better movie? No – Paul Walker is not believable as a backup to anybody.

Developed a full 'Varsity Blues' 2 pitch: Lance Harbor has been the coach for 20 years, tragically dies. Van Der Beek, now a professor at Brown, goes back for the funeral. They're about to abolish football – only one man can save it. Basically 'Football Footloose.'

James Van Der Beek – he's surprisingly good when you rewatch it. Charming, confident, talented. Had to convince people he was an athlete while wearing those wide-leg jeans, and pulled it off.