Leif Garrett made this film after a proposed biopic of "Little Red" Danny Lopez was canceled. He had his trademark long hair cut for this film. Afterwards he grew his hair long again, but then had to have it cut short for Outsiders (1983).
Leif Garrett later said he had not wanted to make a film about foosball but was forced to do it by his producers the Scotti Brothers.
The music for Leif Garrett's song "Give In" is played in the film.
Leif Garrett later recalled, "Everything was absolutely perfect up until '84. And '84 was when the Scotti Brothers made the mistake of telling Paramount and Universal that I didn't want to sign to a two-picture deal after doing The Outsiders. They started their own production company with me doing a movie about ... foosball. Are you out of your fricking minds? I just did The Outsiders and you're having me do a B-movie about foosball now? I knew how we had to make my crossover to adulthood. But the people who were in charge, supposedly, had no intention of ever letting me have any kind of say in anything. I would have made a better choice than believe what I was told - that I had no other offers and nothing else came in. They were greedy and wanted to start a production company with me." However he was clearly misremembering as this film was made in 1981, the year before "The Outsiders" was filmed.