Writer Jason Katims won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in A Drama Series" for this episode.
In the end when Tami (Connie Burton) kisses her fingers and points them to Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) in the state final game is exactly how she did in the movie Friday Night Lights (2004), to Billy Bob Thornton. Peter Berg directed the movie and created the show Friday Night Lights (2006)
Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Aimee Teegarden, Zach Gilford, Taylor Kitsch, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons, Brad Leland, Derek Phillips, Louanne Stephens are only cast members to appeared in pilot and final episode.
Scott Porter filmed several scenes for this episode but all of them were cut.
This is the highest rated episode of the series