The late, great Joe Dean talked about playing some of his high school games on dirt. Also I think the first Olympic basketball games were outdoors on dirt.
The only bad part of Water world imo is the Dennis Hopper basically playing himself.
I am pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet that likes Battlefield Earth
the difference between NCAA and pro sports:
Billionaire owners aren’t uniformly available to enforce honor amongst thieves in this unregulated environment.
(not my quote, stolen from another school's football board)