How effective was the lesson coach Brooks taught the players by making them do all those sprints after the exhibition game against Norway? They had another game the next afternoon, and they obliterated their opponents, scoring in the double digits (I learned this from watching an interview with Mike Eruzione - he himself didn't remember the actual score).

The man with the hat who puts the American flag on Craig is the film's director.

In the film, Ralph Cox was the last player cut from the team, but in 1980 Jack Hughes was the last player cut.

It was not originally in the script to have the players talk to each other about how hot the girls were at the Norway game. Before the scene was filmed, the actors were doing it for real while they were looking at the extras in the arena. The director then thought it would be a good idea to have them do that in the movie, to give their coach all the more reason to be infuriated.