Best sport movie trivia of 1996

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Happy Gilmore picture

Trivia: The evil man at the nursing home is played by Ben Stiller, then a rising star, in an uncredited role.

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Trivia: When sending Bugs and Daffy to pick up his basketball gear, Michael tells them that he wore his UNC shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform in every game. He really did do this, as a good luck charm.

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Kingpin picture

Trivia: In the opening scene where at the bottom of the screen it says Ocelot, Iowa 1969. That gas station scene was actually shot in Mars, Pennsylvania.

Joe Campbell

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Trivia: When Jerry is at the copy place at the beginning getting his paper put together, the guy behind the counter is lead guitarist for the band Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell.

Vin15Nets

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Trivia: When Charlie and Fulton go to the amusement park, an arcade attendant jokes with them about playing hooky. The man who plays the arcade attendant in this movie also played an unnamed celebrity at Coach Bombay's party in D2, and the same man played a lawyer in the first movie. He also happens to be the movie's screenwriter, Steven Brill.

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Trivia: In the final fight scene, 'Sultan' is greeting people in the arena. He stops a man who looks like John Travolta and says 'Vincent, how's Jules?' (or something similar). Vincent Vega was Travolta's character, and Jules was Samuel L Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction.

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Trivia: This film depicts the Utah Jazz as the NBA's Western Conference Champions (and eventual NBA champions). In the NBA season that followed the release of this film, the Jazz coincidentally became Western Conference Champions for the first time in franchise history, though they would lose in the NBA Finals to the Chicago Bulls.

Phaneron

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Trivia: At the street ball the guys who play with Stacy Paton are actually NBA players John Starks and Anthony Mason from the NY Knicks and Gary Payton from the Seattle Sonics.

ozwal13

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