Trivia for
The Waterboy (1998) More at IMDbPro »

• The climactic Bourbon Bowl scene was filmed at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL, however the flyover shown in the film is actually of Williams-Brice stadium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.
  
  
• Most of the extra fans present at the Bourbon Bowl are UCF students.
  
  
• The South Central Muddogs' stadium is the DeLand High School football field in DeLand Florida, the school agreed to let the director use the field if he paid for the stadium to be refurbished after filming.
  
  
• The cheerleaders and outfits were donated by Boone High School in Orlando Florida.
  
  
• There were two mules trained for this film, Steve and Billy. The mule in the film is Steve. Steve wouldn't "bray excitedly", so when you hear a mule, it is Billy braying.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Frank Coraci] Bobby's father Robert.
  
  
• The inspiration for this movie is a combination of Adam Sandler's song "The Lonesome Kicker" and the "Cajun Man" sketches from "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
  
  
• Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent screen star Harold Lloyd, filed a $50 million dollar lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company in 2000, claiming that this movie was plagiarized from Lloyd's silent film classic The Freshman (1925). By 2002, the courts had ruled against her.
  
  
• When the film was released in November of 1998 it was preceded by the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Many Star Wars fans who weren't fans of Adam Sandler paid the full admission price and sat through the trailer then left the theater.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Final acting role of Jerry Reed.
  
  

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