He is sentenced to a year of probation, which includes working as a handyman in a dilapidated boys' home.

Karen runs the home for a group of eleven boys whose parents could not raise them for some reason.

[1] Screenwriter (and attorney) Pierce O'Donnell, who wrote the script in 1994, filed suit against the Canadian producer group in 2000, regarding allegedly unfair accounting practices in the film's development costs.

The Wallflower critical guide to contemporary North American directors (2000) notes that Home Team was "little known" at that time.

"[5] The Radio Times Guide To Film (2007) opined that "Hollywood still hasn't got the hang of football (or soccer, as they insist on calling it) and this family-oriented frolic is decidedly minor league.